The best websites to help with your jobsearch!

How can you maximise your time online when looking for a new job?

The biggest and best online CV database apart from Google is definitely www.monster.com, especially from the hiring manager or recruiters’ database.

All of them, certainly of a specific size will have access to this database. Even if you’re in a job, you can make the CV anonymous and if it’s written correctly it will be found, as Monster power users will have set up predefined parameters for their searches.

LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are all obvious places that you should make sure to be, but have you considered thinking a little bit outside of the normal boxes? Perhaps then you should use a site like Visual CV.

This is a fantastic resource as you can create, upload, share and make sure that you can be found. There are others in this area but it’s a really cool way of making your CV stand out. You can also export it as a pdf and send on directly for jobs!

Flavors.me is another way of creating an online identity. It’s free for access to their basic offering and it allows you to amalgamate all of your skills and experiences that would be on a standard CV or resume, but with something different. At mynewcv we also offer another way to stand out which is to have your CV formatted for mobile devices, such as the iPhone. This is a great way to get the edge on the competition for a given role. Check it out here on an iPhone or mobile device to view it. In standard desktop mode it is optimised for printing!
GatorApp is an Irish based site that will effectively do the same job as a predefined Google Alert, but can be much broader than that and also links well with the Twitter api. Each territory has it’s own one, but if you don’t have a Google Alert set up for your perfect role, how will you know?