How to Start Your Job Search Online

Looking for a new job can be a very tedious, time consuming task but the team at CV-Library has put together some top tips for starting your next job search online. We provide jobseekers with a quick and easy way to search for job vacancies from over 70 different industries across the whole of the UK. So whether you’re searching for an Office Administrator in Leeds or a Beauty Therapist in Brighton CV-Library has the jobs for you. .
Job Search with Keywords
If you’ve never used an online job board before it’s important that you know exactly what you’re looking for. CV-Library has over 55,000 live jobs on their database so you have to use specific keywords to filter out the best jobs for you. .
The words, terms and phrases you enter will define the job vacancies that are pulled out from the database. Your keywords could be a job title, a specific skill or qualification, a company name or an industry. If you get too many results than simply add more keywords and make your job search as specific as possible. You can also use CV-Library’s ‘Advanced Search’ function which gives you more opportunities to narrow your search. .
Job Search with Quick Links
If you’re still unsure about where to start then try some of CV-Library’s quick links. They are located on the homepage and direct you to jobs from popular industries and locations. For example, Hospitality Jobs or Jobs in Manchester. .
Job Search with Boolean
When searching for job vacancies online many job websites use a method called ‘Boolean’. If you’ve never heard of this term, don’t panic! It’s a very straight forward method and once you’ve got your head around it you will save a lot of time when searching for jobs online. Our top three Boolean tips are found below: .
1. How to use AND.
If you’re searching for more than two keywords and you want them both to appear in the job description then use AND. .
e.g. Office AND Administrator.
2. How to use OR.
If you’re searching for more than two keywords but it doesn’t matter if only one of them appears in the job description then use OR. .
e.g. Marketing OR Sales.
3. How to use NOT.
If there are certain words you want to exclude from the job descriptions then use NOT. .
e.g. Consultant NOT Technical.
No Time to Job Search ?
CV-Library.co.uk allows all UK jobseekers to upload their CV to the database completely free of charge. This will allow recruiters accessing CV-Library’s database to find your CV and contact you directly when they have a suitable vacancy for your skills. This means you can sit back and relax as the job offers, hopefully, flood in.
We also have a job alert function which allows jobseekers to register specific keywords and as soon as a vacancy is added to CV-Library that contains those words you will receive an email with the job description. This means you will never miss out on a job and saves you precious job searching time. However, we still recommend you perform a keyword search every now and then just to make sure you aren’t missing out on any Jobs ! .