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Online Job Search

A job search engine is a website that facilitates job hunting. These sites range from large scale generalist boards such as Monster.com 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.

History

Raymond Panko of Menlo Park, California used ARPANET (the pre-cursor to the Internet) as early as 1976 in an attempt to gain employment.

Online job sites have grown from approximately 1,000 in 1996 to over 30,000 in 2006.

Recent Developments

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, such as Simply Hired, Indeed.com and Bixee.com, primarily index traditional job boards such as Monster.com and Hotjobs. These sites are advantageous to job seekers because they provide a one-stop shop for millions of jobs (as opposed to thousands), and may be beneficial to the traditional job sites because they pre-sort the traffic destined for those sites, allowing the traditional sites to more effectively use their resources and target their advertising.

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. Examples of vertical search engines in this category include the non-profit JobCentral.com in the USA, Recruit.net in Asia, and Eluta.ca in Canada. 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 (unlike Monster), such as education, health care, hospital management, academics and even in the non-governmental sector. Most of these sites have a selected clientèle. A further, more recent development has been the birth of many regional job boards which cover most of the major cities in the UK.