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A job search engine is a website that facilitates job hunting. These sites range from large scale generalist boards to niche markets such as engineering, legal, insurance, social work and teaching. Users can typically deposit their résumés and submit them to potential employers, while employers can post job ads and search for potential employees. The category job search engines below is a list of specific search engines with details about them.

Trends

A more recent trend in job search engines is the emergence of vertical search or metasearch engines, which allows job-seekers to search across multiple websites. Some of these new search engines primarily index traditional job boards. These sites aim to provide a "one-stop shop" for job-seekers who don't need to search the underlying job boards. Tensions have recently developed between the job boards and several scraper sites, with Craigslist recently banning scrapers from its job classifieds and Monster.com specifically banning scrapers through its recent adoption of a robots exclusion standard on all its pages.[1]

Other job search engines index pages only from employers' websites, choosing to bypass the traditional job boards entirely. These vertical search engines allow job-seekers to find new positions that may not be advertised on the traditional job boards. There is a close relationship between these search engines and the emergence of XML based standards in the recruitment industry.

A developing trend with jobs search engines or 'jobs boards' as they are often referred as is to encourage users to post their CV and contact details. This enables the job site to email them with new job vacancies as they appear or allows employers to view the CV's rather than advertising the job available. This affords employers a degree of privacy and avoids having to review hundreds of applications as a result of an advert posted on a site. One other potential benefit of uploading a CV is that you can allow it to be searched by recruitment agencies, who in theory should then be able to introduce you to jobs by skills matching. This can often lead to you candidates being put forward to unadvertised jobs.

The success of jobs search engines in bridging the gap between job seekers and employers have spawned thousands of other job sites, many of which list job opportunities in a specific sector, such as education, health care, hospital management, academics and even in the non-governmental sector. A further, more recent development has been the birth of many regional job boards with a local focus.

List of prominent job search engines

References

  1. ^ "Joel Cheesman's Blog, "Craigslist puts smackdown on verticals", October 19, 2006".
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