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The Lazy Jobseeker's Guide to Finding a Job While You Have One

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:49 am
by Joywtseo421
Finding a job while you have one is an amazingly tough act to carry out successfully.

Just like highly trained ninja assassins, you need to be effective while maintaining stealth.

And you don't want to be taking forever so your mission should be time sensitive.

And time can be a huge challenge because while you are job searching, you need to carry out the existing job you are hired and being paid to do.

In the older days when the paper resume was still prevalent, I'd witnessed the situation philippines phone number resource whereby the original copy of a resume was left in the photocopier.c

And just like a movie script, the next person to use the photocopier is the boss.

Don't join the same circle as this guy and be the butt of office jokes for years to come.

Here are some ways you could conduct a job search professionally and effectively while you are still in one:


1. Make use of mobile apps
Instead of loading up Facebook or Clash of Clans when you are in the toilet cubicle, you could load up job search apps instead to see what's relevant and available for you in the market. There are quite a few options to consider:

JobStreet
JobsDB
Indeed
LinkedIN jobs
JobsCentral
STJobs
There are many others, but these would serve as a good start. Still, I find the list to be one too many.

Unless you want your boss to start paying attention to your "constipation" time at the toilet, you want something to do a quick scan through.

And possibly allow direct submission or, at least, an alert function to remind yourself to look into it later from home. On that basis, my recommendation would comprise of Indeed Jobs and LinkedIN Jobs.


2. Indeed Jobs
Indeed is a job listing aggregator. In other words, they crawl the Internet for all possible job ads and collate them into a single list.

So instead of visiting 5 different job boards, you could go to Indeed and expect to see results from all 5 in a single view.

Although it's a mobile app (they also have a responsive web page that looks exactly like the app), initial setup on a computer is highly encouraged.

Especially so if you are an iOS user like myself where uploading of files (in this case, your resume) could be almost impossible.

Once you have done the setup, you could login via the app and see a Recommended Jobs button.

Indeed App

Based on the intelligent backend algorithm, Indeed curates all relevant job ads for you based on your resume.

Since the algorithm is never 100% accurate, you could create your own searches and have them saved as shortcuts.

My favorite feature is the one where you could trigger off an email as a reminder to apply for a specific job.