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Summary:
Searching for jobs
This site has a large number of unique features that allow you to have the ultimate job search experience. We use a ‘slice and dice’ functionality to allow you to go on a journey when looking for your job. You won’t have to begin your search again once you have started.
Refining your job search
We recommend that you start a search with keywords that best suit you and a location. You will soon learn that you can continue to refine these results according to your needs.
Searching for people
This site allows you to search for people. If you are looking for someone with a unique set of skills you are able to locate matching members by keyword. Select ‘Search People’ in the main search box and enter keywords. Members whose public broadcast matches the keywords will be returned. You can review their details and take appropriate action thereafter. The Search People tutorial shows you how.
Searching for advertisers
If you want to look for a job by a specific advertiser, enter their name as a keyword and the search results will highlight all their ads.
Advertiser tags
Advertisers can ‘tag’ jobs so that they increase the chance that suitable candidates will find their ad. For example, if they are listing a Chief Financial Officer, they may also tag it as:
- National Finance Director
- VP Finance
- Group Financial Controller or
- any other title that might fit that role
Tags make it easier for the right job to present itself to you. You won’t have to worry about possible ways an advertiser might word an ad. If they’re smart, they will have used tags to allow for multiple variations.
You can also use the tags created by advertisers in your searches. Try searching the different tags an advertiser has in their job ad. You just might find another bundle of relevant jobs to choose from.
Saving jobs
Saving jobs lets you create a shopping cart for your jobs while you search. It gives you the chance to continue browsing for jobs, while collecting the interesting ones along the way. Once you have finished searching, you can review the jobs you have saved and decide what to do next. This might be applying, researching the company some more or deleting it from your list of saved jobs.
Similar jobs
Using the similar job function allows you to quickly see jobs that have been deemed by this site to be similar to what you are looking for. This is different to tagging. Tags are advertiser generated. Similar jobs are links generated intuitively by our site. They may just help you find exactly what you are looking for.
Slicing & dicing
Slicing & dicing lets you see your search results according to a whole stack of different criteria and sub-criteria. Drilling down is easy. Drilling sideways is even easier.
Your initial search results may return let’s say, 30 jobs. This site will display on your screen a quick breakdown of those jobs by categories such as Industry, Profession, Role, State, Recruiter, Work Type, Sector and Salary. Under each of these categories, sub-categories will also be displayed that will show how many of the 30 results are for say full-time roles, how many there are in the Government sector, your state or in the salary band you are chasing. You can even see how many there are in different industries. If Finance is not your thing, but Media is you can dive straight in and see those really appealing jobs, quickly and easily. You will never have to scan a stack of duds in order to find the jobs you are after.
The best part of all is going backwards. How come no-one else lets you do that? Once you have drilled down into the ad and want to come back out, you can return to your full set of search results and look at them again from a different angle. Slicing & dicing allows you to search less and find more.
Search basics
Use NOT: where you don’t want whatever word follows NOT to be included. MANAGER NOT ACCOUNT.
Use AND: if you DO want whatever word follows AND to be included. SALES AND MANAGER.
Use OR: where you want your results to include at least one of the two words either side of OR. TRAINING OR DEVELOPMENT.
Use brackets for even more refinement. MANAGEMENT NOT (SALES OR ACCOUNTS).
Use Asterisk * as a wildcard with part words inside quotation marks to allow for multiple variations on similar words. "*CAD" will include AutoCAD and ArchiCAD.
Selecting different distances from a set postcode in your results allows you to widen or narrow your search by location.
Search tips
The inside scoop on getting exactly the results you're looking for.
Searching by keywords narrows your search results, helping you to find the right job the first time. Keywords are particularly useful if you are searching for a specific role, skill, location or company. Our search casts it net widely across more fields than any other site. It will include words that appear in job titles, tags, advertisement body text and most other parts of the ad.
Results for any single word entered in the search field will include all jobs that have used that word anywhere in the ad. If the word you have searched is the same as one of our job categories (say a profession, role, industry etc), your search results will include all the jobs in that category.
If you search for more than one word, such as sales management, your results will only include jobs where SALES MANAGEMENT (as a set of words) has been used in the ad. If the word SALES appears in the ad and is not followed immediately by MANAGEMENT, it will not be included in your search results. You can use OR to list jobs including either word. Your search will then include all jobs where the word SALES OR the word MANAGEMENT appear anywhere in the ad.
Use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase. “SALES MANAGEMENT" includes results where this exact phrase has been used. Our technology is smart enough to recognise some common phrases and common variations like part time, part-time, parttime, and deliver ALL jobs that are true part-time roles, even if you don’t put quotes around them or use different spelling or punctuation.
Use NOT to exclude keywords. A search of MANAGEMENT NOT SALES will list positions that include the word MANAGEMENT, but NOT those that include the word SALES.
This site supports nested searches using brackets. MANAGEMENT NOT (SALES OR ACCOUNTS) will include results for all ads with the word MANAGEMENT included, but none that also include the words SALES or ACCOUNTS.
Our searches are not case sensitive. Searches for Sales Management, sales management or SaLEs ManAGemeNT will return the same results. Qualifiers such as AND, NOT and OR are also not case sensitive.
This site ignores common words and characters such as THE, AN, ALSO, symbols such as % and / and some phrases such as I AM LOOKING FOR. These slow down your search without enhancing the results.
This site translates punctuation (commas, spaces, dashes and asterisks) as AND, so make sure you use OR if you would like either of your keywords to appear in the search results. For example, instead of typing in JAPANESE, CHINESE use JAPANESE OR CHINESE if you want jobs that match either Japanese or Chinese.
This site can utilise asterisk * wildcards for the search of part words. Great if you’re spelling is rusty. You will need to use quotation marks. For example searching "PSY*" will produce results that include PSYCHOLOGIST, PSYCHIATRIST etc.
If you misspell a word, This site may recognise what you were trying to search on, and offer you a spelling suggestion ‘did you mean?’
Search tutorial
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