Thursday, September 23, 2010

Tip of the Month: Indeed.com


If you’re in job search mode and not familiar with Indeed.com, you should be. Indeed.com is a free service that scours the top job boards and Fortune 500 companies for new openings daily. To give you an idea what I’m talking about, today I searched for “Real Estate” as a keyword in the following markets and this is the number of advertised openings that came back:

Dallas, TX: 2040
Houston: 984
Charlotte: 638
Phoenix: 977
Washington DC: 2979
Atlanta: 1264
Chicago: 2286
Denver: 789
San Francisco: 2246
Los Angeles: 3886
Orlando: 549
Miami: 1085
Las Vegas: 386

If you care to add it up, that's 20,109 openings in those thirteen markets alone. Granted, not all will be real estate specific roles and only a portion might be a match. However, shrinking the total to 5% or 10% still leaves a decent number of job leads... not to mention the opportunity to identify companies you didn't know of before.

Indeed will also notify you when a new position is posted in your area which meets your personal interests or criteria, so you don’t have to recheck it every day. This is truly a great service, especially considering the price of admission (FREE!).

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