The Best Job Search Engine

When you search for and apply to jobs one-at-a-time today, you are playing a numbers game that is stacked against you in the following ways:

• only ten percent of all jobs are filled through classified advertising
• each advertised job fetches over 600 resumes
• when most people search for jobs online, they see a mere 1% of all open jobs

Turning the job search lotto to your advantage means that most job seekers will spend much less time searching for an applying to one-job-at-a-time. Any career site that charges employers big sums of money to post open jobs unhappy. The more job seekers they have applying to the scant number of actual jobs open jobs, the more money they can charge employers to post jobs.

In essence, the more inefficient you are at searching for work, the more money the big job boards make. The longer you are out of work, the more money the big job boards make. Obviously you will need to get a job sometime, but you will never hear it from Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder and the like that what they want you to do, is actually against your best interest.

Do you want to turn that around and start searching for work in the most efficient way possible? Great. Stop visiting the big job boards to search for work.

Yes. You should still look for open jobs, but you need to use the Google of Job Search Engines. You need to go the open source of job search engines that goes out to 5,000+ career sites of all types, and lets you search all of them from a single site.

But will you apply to the jobs you find there in the traditional way? Ummmm. No, you won't. Or, at least, I strongly suggest that you don't.

The best way to beat the job search lotto is when you find a job, and a company that you really want to work for, you do everything that  you know how to get your resume in the hands of the hiring manger, the decision maker that will ultimately be your boss.

Sending your resume in through normal channels is just playing the odds. Yes, in some situations, you should do this.

First, spend more of your time marketing yourself in ways that leverage your efforts and widen your networked. Read the Marketing Yourself section of this site to see how.

Then, work on find specific jobs, laser focus your efforts to get your resume 'special delivered' into the hiring manager's hand.

Think of it from the hiring manager's position. Believe me I've been there. Hiring new people takes a lot of time, and  your other responsibilities don't let up just because you are adding team members. If anything, added responsibilities means even more work and more time spent until you get your team in place.

As a hiring mangers you look for ways to bring in good candidates without having the wade through a ton of resumes. When prioritizing trusted sources for possible candidates, the anonymous pool of submitted resumes is the last place a hiring mangers really wants to look. A friend, a colleague within the company, a trusted network of peers, a business networking source on the net, will all bring an added authority to your resume if you get it delivered to the hiring mangers through one of these means. Or, even introducing yourself directly to the hiring manager's email address is better than sending your resume in through normal channels.

Because HR is a notorious black hole. If your resume ever makes it out of HR and onto the anonymous pile of resumes on the a hiring manager's desk, your resume might get 20 seconds of a distracted manager's time, and what if the phone rings, or a colleague comes in or any number of other interruptions.

The ideal situation for a job that you really want is to spend the time, getting your resume delivered by a trusted source. When that happens, your resume  gets special attention. The trusted source is going to want to follow up, the manager is going to give the resume special time, and the candidate any benefit of the doubt.

Your chances of getting a phone or in-person interview when your resume is delivered by a trusted sources is about 40% to 50%. While not fool proof, you would have to apply to far more than 600 jobs that you really want to get the same kind of odds for an interview.

So, why use a job search engine at all? The number one reason is to find jobs that you really want, that you will spend an hour or two to get your resume into a trusted source of the hiring mangers, or to simply email directly to the hiring mangers. The other reasons include staying informed about the marketplace for your skills, to get a read, when you can on the salary levels currently available for positions you are interested in. Last, among the reasons is to apply for jobs online.

If Monster and the other job boards carry so few of the actual open jobs, where should one search to get the broadest number of positions possible without having to hop from job board to job board to job board?

The best meta job search engine out there that I like to call The Google of Job Search Engines can be found in two places. Right here on this site. At the bottom of this page or at this link. What do you get by using this job search engine:

• A meta job search
• Job aggregated from thousands of career sites, job boards, employers site and elsewhere. All searchable from one site.
• The career sites include everyone of your favorite job boards. You no longer need to hop from job board to job board. Just do your job searching from our site.

If you want to search just a few job boards, you are effectively leaving hundreds, if not thousands of job openings behind.

You can search the largest database of jobs on the internet here. Search through millions of jobs from 1000's of job boards. Powered by Indeed, you can use our version of their job search engine or go over to Indeed and search from there site.

We've gone one step further, so in addition to looking for job openings, you can browse an already aggregated directory of top job picks of recently posted job openings. This directory is aggregated from 1,000s of job sites including Monster, HotJobs, and more.