Frequently Asked Questions
What are the different searches?
The main search scrubs the entire internet looking for job offers on various types of pages
- ALL: The default search searches all types of pages for anything that looks like a job posting.
- CORPORATE: This search removes all results on military, educational, government and non-profit organizations.
- ACADEMIC: This search will scrub the web to find job postings on educational domains (.edu)
- GOVERNMENT: This search will search for government and civil service jobs (.gov gomains)
- MILITARY: For military searches - finds jobs working on military bases for non-enlisted personnel.
- ORGANIZATIONS: Searches the websites of organizations - all types - any site with a dot-org domain.
These searches may be further refined to search for all types of employment, or full-time, part-time or even contract employment.
How Does The Recruitment Site Search Work?
This search scrubs the most popular recruitment sites using the power of Google Custom Search. This search will uncover postings of jobs on sites such as Monster.com, Dice and more. Nearly 200 job sites are searched. Alternatively, you can select any individual job site to scrub. If you would like to investigate any particular job site in detail, you can jump to that site and explore it via their interface.
- Search: Searches all of the jobsites at once, or you may select any individual site to search
- Jump: A jump link is provided for every site so that you may simply click on "Jump" and the site will open in a new window.
How Does the Newspaper and Online Media Classified Job Ads Search Work?
The third type of search JobScrubber will do is to search through all of the major US Newspaper sites for classified advertisements for jobs.
As with the Job & Recruitment site search, this search also has a jump link so that you may jump to any one of the newspapers in the database and search through it manually as well as through the search engine which is powered by Google.
The Jump feature might be especially useful if you are considering relocating to a particular area, you may investigate the job advertisements as they appear, and you can search through the newspaper for other local information which might be pertinent and useful.
Are there other tools like this to help find jobs online?
Yes. We are producing a simple HTML "Toolbar" which will require NO INSTALLATION, and enables you to search and jump from job site to job site without hunting for all of the places that professional job hunters know about.
This tool will make you an instant expert at jobsearching and have not only the links and searches for every single job site in the world, but it will also have links to resources for training, resume writing and evaluation, temporary work (until you land that great job) and much more.
Is there a way for recruiters to search for resumes?
Actually, there is.
We have a search engine to find just resumes by the name of CV Fox. In Europe (and academia) a resume is known as a CV, or Curriculum Vitae.
CV Fox scrubs the web to find resumes that are not on traditional headhunter or recruitment sites, but rather are posted in odd places about the internet. One of the future functionalities of this site will be to enable jobseekers to post their resume where free resume search engines can find it.
Is there a way to make my resume easy to find by recruiters?
Yes! There are techniques and tricks to make it easy for them to find you and call for an interview.
One of the most important things is how to name your resume file! You can also save it in more than one format, as recruiters will often look for professional resumes in .pdf format. You can convert your MS Word resume into a .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) for free from the Acrobat webpage. (They allow you to convert 5 documents for free.)
Most people will write a resume, and not think of the name they give the file... they will make it in MS Word, and save it with a name like this:
resume.doc When a recruiter searches for a resume using Google or Yahoo! search, they will get a results page which displays what they found... this is what they will see!
myresume.doc
That is a TERRIBLE way to name your resume. You are giving it a title, like a headline in a newspaper, so put in information that a headhunter or employer might search for. Say you are a software engineer, this is how you should title your resume:
resume - software engineer - Jones Peter.doc This tells an employer/recruiter a lot and makes them open the document.
resume - software engineer- banking - Jones Peter.doc
Remember! Your resume is a marketing document. Its goal is to win an interview. Nothing more. When you win the interview, you win the job. It's that simple. Never forget that the job of your resume is to sell the employer or recruiter on you, and make them want to interview you.
If you are getting contacted from your resume, then it is doing its job.
