Meta Search for Jobs, and other Employment

Indeed | one search. all jobs.

This seems to be an excellent meta search engine for jobs. The listings are plentiful and relevant. They boast that 868,299 new jobs have been added in the last 7 days. Of course, no word that I could find of the number of jobs that disappear because they are filled. Although the word indeed is not related to jobs, it is easy to remember, and I guess that's the important thing. The name does, however, make for difficult reading sometimes, as you tend to associate the word with its actual meaning rather than the company. This site searches job sites, newspapers, associations, and company career pages. The listings are quite good. Here's an example of listings for software programmer in the Lancaster, PA area: All software programmer jobs in Lancaster | Indeed.com.

You can narrow or expand the search by keyword or location. Searches can be expanded by not specifying a location or a keyword. Searching only by keyword lists all jobs in the country related to the keyword. Specifying only the location lists all jobs within 25 miles of that locale. If more than 1 keyword is entered, then only those jobs that contain both keywords will be listed. To search for a phrase, enclose it in quotation marks ("real estate"). The Boolean operators OR and NOT can also be used, in addition to the implicit AND, which is the default. The OR operator is useful for entering full descriptions or their abbreviation (HR OR "human resources"). Searches also be restricted to a company or words in the title (company-microsoft; title-consultant; title-"business development"). Example of a complex search string: (manager OR director) and (healthcare OR pharmaceutical) NOT sales.

Each page has a small Refine Your Search box that narrows the search. Examples: Searching for software developer jobs for Lancaster, PA shows these additional categories: Mortgage Loan Officer, Software Engineer, Assistant IT Developer, Lotus Notes Administrator, Analyst, and Web Developer. But if you did the same search for Las Vegas, NV, the Refine Your Search box would show different categories, but still related to software development, although sometimes only marginally so. Listed below this box are your recent job searches which you can click on again to see updated results. You can also clear the Recent Job Searches list.

The Advanced Job Search page includes a form for easier entry of search terms. In addition, location can be specified from 5 to 100 miles; age of the job posting can be selected for today or up to 15 days, or anytime; and up to 50 job listings can be displayed on each page, sorted by relevance or date.

Searches can be saved and delivered by email alerts or RSS feeds. You can save a job search to a MyYahoo account by clicking a button, for instance.

Indeed.com also provides web services for webmasters, allowing a website to display job search results from XML feeds that can be custom formatted.

Interesting Pages:

Where Are the Jobs? | Indeed.com — This shows a map and a listing of the top 50 cities in the United States with the highest job postings per capita. With the map, you can zoom into any area, or click the metropolitan area that you want to search. You can also click the city links for job postings there.
Jobs by State — Lists the number of jobs in each state that were posted within the last 30 days.
Include Your Jobs — Jobs can be listed free of charge. When a job seeker clicks your link, they are directed to your website.
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