How to Use the Search Jobs Panel

The Search Jobs panel provides you with a number of fields to help narrow your search to jobs of interest. Most queries begin by typing the name of a career field or skill in the "Keywords" field. Most of the other fields provided can be used to augment what you have entered in the "Keywords" field or they can be used by themselves to conduct a search. Here is a description of each field.

Keyword(s)

The "Keyword(s)" text field allows you to enter words that describe your career field or skill set. For example, if you are a nurse, then you may enter the keyword "Nurse", the keywords "Registered Nurse", or the acronym "RN". If you are a computer programmer, then you may enter a skill instead like "Perl" or ".Net". You may create complex queries, too, by combining keywords using "or", "and", or "not" operators.

Look In

The "Look In" dropdown box allows you to search for your keywords in either the "Job Title & Description" or the "Job Title Only". Searching in the default "Job Title & Description" will return more matches. However, if your keywords reflect the name of a specific career field, then selecting "Job Title Only" will return better matches as well as being a slightly faster query to boot.

Location

The "Location" text field allows you to enter a city, state combination, zip code, or state (e.g., 'Omaha, NE'; '68124'; 'NE'). After you start typing a list of location suggestions will be provided for your convenience. The "Service Region" default entry is provided to keep the volume of job posting matches manageable. You may still enter any city or zip code you wish in the "Location" field to find a job elsewhere.

And cities within

The "And cities within" dropdown box allows you to specify a search radius around the "Location" you have entered. The default search radius is "40" miles. This seems to be the furthest distance from home the average job seeker is willing to commute each day. If you are only interested in job postings for your immediate "Location", simply select "0" from the dropdown.

Date Posted

The "Date Posted" dropdown box allows you to specify how recently the job was posted. You may only be interested in seeing the jobs posted "Today" or "This Week". The "Date Posted" options include:

• All
• Today
• This Week
• This Month

The default behavior is to return "All" jobs that match your search criteria regardless of the date they were posted.

Sort By

The "Sort By" dropdown box allows you to order the returned job matches by any of the following:

• Employer - alphabetically by company name
• Date Posted - chronologically by date the job was posted
• Job Title - alphabetically by job title
• Location - alphabetically by city

The default behavior is list jobs by the "Date Posted" starting with the most recent.

Employer

The "Employer" text field allows you to narrow your search by typing in the name of a company or employer. As soon as you start typing, employer suggestions will be displayed. If you see a match, simply scroll down to it using the arrow keys and click the Return or Enter key. You may have already seen similar hint functionality while typing in the "Location" field. Please note that the suggestions list of employers only includes those currently posting a job.

After selected an employer from the list of suggestions, the company's logo will appear to the right of the "Employer" text field. You may click this logo to view the full job listing for this employer.