Often, roles on LinkedIn (and some other popular job boards) are inundated with candidates. However, for whatever reason, there are a lot of roles that are publicly posted that don’t make their way to the major job boards.
Here’s a cool way to surface additional roles in your job search.
Using Google Search (yes, stay with me), you can run hyper specific searches across some of the major applicant tracking systems.
Here’s how:
- Google allows you to constrain a search to a specific website (ex. site:amazon.com will only show Amazon results in the search results). The good news is that almost all of the major applicant tracking systems host their job boards using a consistent URL.
- For example, let’s look at Capella Space’s job board: https://boards.greenhouse.io/capellaspace
- Notice that ‘capellaspace’ is after the hyphen.
- As a general rule, all Greenhouse customers follow that same URL. (And other examples down below).
- So, you can drop the company name and shorten it to just https://boards.greenhouse.io/
- While this page redirects to Greenhouse’s main page, it works in a special way for Google Search results.
Now, let’s add the site-restricted parameter: site:https://boards.greenhouse.io/
- When you drop that in the search bar, you’ll see every public role on Greenhouse’s job boards that Google has captured in it’s search engine.
From there, you can start adding in constraints so you filter down to more appropriate roles. And you can combine terms to search across common words:
- Ex. “People Operations” OR “People Ops” OR “Human Resources” OR “HR”
And now you can also add in title-based constraints:
- Ex. … AND “Generalist” OR “Specialist” OR “Coordinator
So, we end up with a search that looks like:
Finally, you can filter the search further to only show results from the past week. So, make it part of your weekly routine.
I hope this helps in your search!
List of the major boards