Another Cool Tool for Job Seekers: WorkSearch – Tracking your jobsearch workout

Posted by David B. Wright

August 28, 2009

Here’s an interesting site I found via a search that landed me on Maureen McHale’s blog (P.S. She’s a Marketing Professional with over 13 years of experience in all phases of traditional and internet marketing- for hire! Her profile is here). Anyway, her post that I found is called “Are You Tweeting for a New Career?” and contains lots of useful Twitter-related resources, people to follow, and more that job seekers can benefit from.

So on the point of this post (oh, and thank you, Maureen, for sharing!): In that list was a link to follow the LinkUp job engine on Twitter, which I, of course, did.

Reading their tweets, I discovered a useful tool and thought I’d spread the word a bit. It’s called WorkSearch, and helps job seekers more accurately keep track of the time they’re spending on their job search. After all, what gets measured gets managed, and if you manage your job search more effectively, the odds are you won’t be looking for a job quite as long - you’ll find a job! (or, to shamelessly plug my book in a not-so-subtle way, you’ll Get A Job!)

LinkUp's job search tool: WorkSearch

From their website:
“What is WorkSearch?

WorkSearch is LinkUp’s free tool for jobseekers to track how long they’re searching for jobs, and view their progress along the way.

Why would I use it?

Career advice experts tell jobseekers to treat the job-hunt like a full-time job. That means that 5 minutes here and there isn’t enough — to be successful, you should spend as much time as possible. But distractions come up, and its easy to lose track at time. So we’ve taken a cue from our treadmill and built a tool into LinkUp that tracks how long you’ve been searching, and lets you know when you’re done. It also lets you track how many jobs you’ve viewed, and how many you’ve applied to, as a way to track your progress and effort!”

To be perfectly honest, I have not tested this tool myself, but it looks very useful so I thought I’d go ahead and share it. It’s free, looks easy to use, and if you don’t like it, use something else!

I am curious, though: can it tell how much time you’re spending on particular job boards vs career pages on company sites, leveraging Facebook, LinkedIn, and others to connect with people at hiring companies, and also tell you how much time you spend editing and tweaking your resume, cover letter, and other job-search-related materials? I’d be REALLY surprised if you could get such a robust tool for free. That being said, I’m pretty sure that it must have more functionality than a simple egg timer.

If anyone has used this tool, or tries it after reading this post, feel free to share your experience by leaving a comment. Thanks!

To your success,

David B. Wright
Author, Get A Job! Your Guide to Making Successful Career Moves
www.thegetajobbook.com
Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/getajob

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