Does a Meta-Job Search Tool exist?

February 2, 2006 5:02 AM

Does a Meta-Job Search Tool exist which sends and collate your job details to multiple recruitment websites?

There is a multitude of job / recruitment web-sites, all offering search facilities and most also offering to e-mail results to you on a periodic basis. Is there a program or a website which submits your job search criteria details to multiple job / recruitment web-sites, possibly even collates the results returned and also (as a bonus) submits your resume as well? This would save a massive amount of time. Note: I am based in the UK.

posted by porktrap to Work & Money (4 answers total)

Indeed is close to what you want. They aggregate job info from lots of different sites. You can search by keyword and location, and they'll email you (or update an RSS feed) when new jobs are listed.

It doesn't auto-submit resumes though, but that's probably a good thing (so you don't get blacklisted as a resume spammer).
posted by revgeorge at 6:15 AM on February 2, 2006

Indeed is the best thing I've found. It searches all the websites I used to go to, and some others. Best part is you don't have to register on Monster or whatever, Indeed returns all the relevant listings without any of the Monster BS. The RSS feed makes it even more painless.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:22 AM on February 2, 2006

Work.com is similar to Indeed.com, but I've found that it's generally best to hit Monster, Careerbuilder, Craigslist and any industry-specific job sites often if you're really looking hard. By the time these meta-crawlers register jobs posted on these other sites two or three days may have elapsed.
posted by stevis at 6:31 AM on February 2, 2006

Of course, work.com now forwards to business.com and it doesn't look as good as it used to be last summer. So, indeed.com is probably your best bet.
posted by stevis at 6:33 AM on February 2, 2006