FINDING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Setting up Profiles & Job Alerts
Daily job notifications from each of these sites helps ensure you are seeing as many job opportunities as possible. You may want to create a folder in your email and set up rules so all job alerts go into this folder and then you can go to the folder when you sit down to search opportunities.
Daily alerts
When filling out the criteria for your job alerts, most job boards will offer you the choice on whether you want to receive alerts daily or weekly - our top recruitment consultants advise you to select the daily option. Although it may seem like an irritating prospect to receive emails from a job site every day, it will help you find suitable jobs much quicker. Jobs get snapped up very quickly, and you would hate to miss out on a great opportunity because you were simply out of time.
Quotations
If you’re looking for an exact type of position, ensure to type the role you want in the search tool with quotation marks, e.g. “Marketing Director”, rather than simply selecting the marketing category. This way, you will only receive alerts for this exact kind of position.
Be specific
Make sure to state which location you’d prefer and the salary you want. This will narrow your search even more to ensure your job alerts will be as specific as possible to suit your preferences.
Companies
If you’re interested in seeking a job within a particular company you like, you can set up an alert that will inform you as soon as there is a job opening at that company. This will save you ‘stalking’ their website every day and help you find out about new jobs quicker. Set up a company job alert by typing their name in quotation marks in the search tool.
Experiment
If the job alerts you set up don’t deliver the results you were hoping for, go back and adjust your preferences until they do. Job alerts are worth experimenting with a few times to ensure every alert is useful and relevant.