10 Mobile Phone Apps For Your Job Search
Here are our top 10 picks for Android apps that we know will help you in your job search. Bonus they are all free!
Some of the benefits of using a mobile job search app are that you may be able to get away with searching for a new job while you are actually at a job you hate or are about to get laid off from without raising alarms from your employers web monitoring systems.
If you are waiting in a lobby for a job interview you can also search for a new job while waiting for an interview.
Our favorite Apps for the job search are:
Check out how we can connect with recruiters at many companies by following our list of recruiters and check out our list of corporate career Twitter accounts.
You can connect with your prior professional contacts at work. Checkout company information where you are interviewing to get some ideas before you head into your interview.
This app is a very useful tool for people who have a lot of contacts. It’s particularly useful for those that don’t call very often. You get statistics based on your communication style, the best time to call, location data of callers, and interesting things like weather, and news from the current callers location.
It is helpful when you tie it to your Linkedin Profile and other social networks that users have published their numbers you might not have in your phone. You’ll have a leg up on if that mystery caller is actually that recruiter you’ve been waiting for.
So you’ve plastered you contact information all over town, the internet, every stranger you’ve run into but you’re gun shy to take another scam artist phone call for a contract position at a multilevel marketing scheme company. Welcome to Reverse Lookup you can simply search if that number you missed is listed as a spam telemarketer or maybe your dream employer.
You can also block numbers that will call you from this app.
Google Maps
Good news you got the job interview! Where the hell is it located? Use Google maps on your phone to figure it out.
So you just ran into you some old classmates and want to harness your human networking capabilities. The new handshake of the 21st century. Check out Bump.
Naturally a good choice to further connect with recruiters.
Trying to keep current with what is happening in the industry you are interviewing in? Follow some companies from the industry you are interested in. You can see the current share prices and more importantly news items on each company. These can give you talking points for your interview, or you can apply at well to do companies.
Addeco is one of the largest staffing agencies in the United States. They happen to have a great job search app for their job postings and it is very easy to apply to jobs from your phone, or email to review later. Perfect for that waiting to be interviewed time in the lobby, or on your lunch break.
For those of you that don’t have DropBox it is easily one of those few Swiss Army knife type of applications when tied to your Android device. Simply put on the road looking for jobs DropBox will easily be used for hosting your resume, and helping distribute it to employers. The possibilities for advancing your job search go further than that.
Bonus 11
Yup guys, there is an App for that.