One of the benefits of living in the internet generation is the wealth of sites we can visit to look for job opportunities. There are general job boards, regional job boards, industry specific job boards, associations, aggregators, you name it. It feels like every week I find another site to search for job vacancies.
Most job boards have functionality that allows you to create a search and view the results as an email. Some sites call this an agent. You can set these up to email you when you want so you will be kept informed of any new postings that match your search criteria. However, with the growing number of job sites, the email influx starts to become unmanageable.
The best way I have found to manage these emails is with an RSS reader. RSS stands for “really simple syndication”. There are many readers available. You can explore some of the more popular readers here and make your own decision. I use Google Reader. I find it very easy and I can view my rss feeds from my mobile phone. You do need a Google account or Gmail address to use it.
Once you have your reader you are in business. Whenever you are searching you can look for the RSS icon. It looks like this:
Just click on the icon and you will be taken to a menu where you can specify your reader, or to the actual RSS feed. If your are taken to the feed, you can copy the URL and place that into your reader.
Once you have the feeds in your reader, you can make your life easier by grouping the feeds into a folder “job openings”. So now when you click on the folder you will see all your updated searches. You can scan through all of these much quicker than going through all those emails.
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