I found this in Mashable today and thought it was just wonderful....but you have to have an IPhone...LOL! Good luck!
10 iPhone Apps to Manage Your Job Search on the Go
Posted: 26 Mar 2009 03:52 PM PDT
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a
Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and
owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
These days, the job search is
happening 24/7, and it’s important to arm yourself with tools that can help
provide you with an advantage. You can create a social media
resume, connect with recruiters on Twitter,
and if you have an iPhone, there are several useful applications you can use to
track job listings and networking opportunities on the go.
Here are ten apps that will help you
own your online identity, build a strong database of professional contacts, and
locate a job in your area in a flash.
Have another app to recommend? Tell
us about it in the comments.
1. Careerbuilder.com
The Careerbuilder.com iPhone app was the first of its kind
when it came out last year and is still quite popular because of its brand name
and built-in geolocation technology. It’s a free application that enables you
to search for a new job from wherever you are, and has the full functionality
of the Careerbuilder.com website.
The application automatically
determines which city you’re currently in and allows you to find a job using a
keyword search. This is really useful if you’re currently employed and don’t
want to make it obvious that you’re searching for another job. You can also
read job descriptions and salaries, save jobs to a list of favorites, and email
job links.
2. Job Compass
Job Compass uses the iPhone’s locator feature to hone in
on your position on a map and then gives you the ability to search for a job
within a 5 to 100 mile radius. This application will help you find out what
jobs are available around you at lightning speed, and once you find a job, you
can read about it, call the hiring manager up, and send yourself an email with
a link to the job description and apply for the job right from the iPhone. Job
Compass used to be a paid application and is now free.
3.Now Hiring
Now Hiring, an application that costs 99 cents, is great
for anyone looking for a new job or complete career change. With Now Hiring,
you can save your job searches, email search results to yourself or others,
filter searches by miles, date, relevance, full/part-time, contract, internship
or temporary and search by city, state, province, zip code, or postcode.
Searches are available in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Spain and India.
The app retrieves only the latest jobs that are open, so you’re up-to-date and
not applying for jobs that aren’t available anymore.
4. Job Finder
Job Finder aggregates jobs from multiple job sites,
instead of you having to visit them all individually. All you have to do is
specify the locations that you’re interested in and your other preferences and
this application will remember them and use them whenever you open it in the
future.
The application uses RSS to gather
information and aggregate it from job sources such as SimplyHired,
StarTribune.com’s jobs, Hireability.com and others. Job Finder organizes jobs
into 73 categories, including Accounting, Advertising, Government/Military,
Insurance, IT, Law Enforcement/Security, Transport/Logistics, etc. The app
costs 99 cents.
5. Craigster
Craigster, the iPhone application for Craigslist, is a
great place to search for jobs in your respective area. At 99 cents, you’re
able to search all cities on Craigslist. You can search or browse through
thousands of classifieds, bookmark your favorite searches, email listing to
friends and call numbers directly from listings. Also, you can view locations
with direct address links to Maps, post your own classifieds with pictures
taken from your iPhone and save drafts of your posts that you can finish up
later.
6. LinkedIn
Soon after Facebook announced their
iPhone application, LinkedIn released their own. You can set your status
update, browse through your LinkedIn connections and search for jobs. There is
also an address book integration utility and the ability for you to save your
search history and results. Just like on LinkedIn.com, you can search profiles,
which include avatars and bios, and connect with professionals or friends. You
can invite people to LinkedIn and receive network updates wherever you go.
Downloading the LinkedIn application is free.
7. iJobs
For 99 cents, iJobs delivers millions of job listings to your iPhone.
There is a keyword search that allows for searching against a word in a title,
description, salary and more. In addition, there is an auto detect on your
location, a zip code search and a feature that automatically saves your last
search. Similar to the other applications, you can add jobs to your list of
favorites and filter the results by category, company, title, industry and
employee type.
8. ABContacts
While LinkedIn is great for
searching for a job and building a network, ABContacts is focused on managing your contacts and organizing
them into groups. For $3.99 (you can try a free, lite version
here), you can create dynamic groups based on rules. There are
five different types of rules and they work on first name, last name, company,
notes, job title, department and so on. Rules can be combined into even greater
filters and Microsoft Outlook users can create these groups on the iPhone as
well. You can show upcoming birthdays, events, unfiled contacts and more. There
is an option to display contact pictures as well.
9. BeamME
BeamME is a free and universal business card exchange
application on the iPhone. It allows you to send your personal or business card
from your iPhone to any mobile device or computer, including BlackBerry devices
and Macs. Your new contact can add your information to their address book
through an optimized vCard. You also get complete tracking information on
everyone you’ve met through rmbrme.com, which is an added bonus. There is a free
and pro version
($7.99) of BeamME available right now. Instead of wasting paper printing
business cards, this is another viable and innovative solution for you.
10. Domain App
A job search isn’t complete without
a reactionary method, where you setup your domain name and hiring managers
discover you through Google. Everyone should have their own domain name because
it ranks highly in search and because it allows you to advertise your brand for
a minimal cost. Domain App is an iPhone application that lets you search
and register domain names from the convenience of your phone, providing you
with access to a whopping 80 domain name extensions.
Aside from searching for domain
availability, there is instant domain registration, the ability to bookmark
your search results and Whois information. This app is free.
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