2. DIVERSIFY YOUR SEARCH

Restraining yourself to just a few engines is not the best course of action when looking for a job. Try some of the little engines as well as the large ones. If you go for a multitude of search engines with a variety of options granted to them, then you will be more likely to get a hit in your target field. The way a lot of them operate is by taking all of your personal information, resume, references and anything else they feel pertinent for pre-screening and then finding potential matches for you from your resume. The big job search engines use computer programs to find key words in resumes to match the desires of the company. That means that you need a resume that is in RTF format with no special formatting, and key words that will help you stand out among the other many job seekers in the market. Once you've diversified your options, you can consider narrowing down what you're looking for.

If you know what you want to do, find companies that offer careers in that field and learn everything you can about them. They might have a link that will send you to a job search engine where they gather all the resumes they consider, and you will find a new search engine that you can look through when doing your job search. Another way to diversify your search might be to look at local job search engines. These will only have jobs in them for your area, or at the most, jobs in other areas that might be willing to help you relocate to different cities. Career fairs can also be a place to find out about some other job search engines. The businesses there might require you to go online and submit your resume through an online job search engine before they will consider it.