9 Free iPhone Apps To Help You Land Your Next Job
Whether you're on the hunt for greener pastures, or looking for a complete career change, online resources are plentiful. Here are 9 iOS apps that could improve and shorten your search.
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If you're an IT pro considering a job change, it's a good time to be looking. IT salaries are on the rise and expected to climb an average of 5.3% in 2016 over 2015 salaries. Also, areas such as cyber-security are booming and are in need of more talent.
In fact, analysts expect cyber-security to become an estimated $170 billion market by 2020, up from $75 billion in 2015. According to a 2015 Cisco report on mitigating the cyber-security skills shortage, "There are more than 1 million unfilled security jobs worldwide."
Demand outstripping supply will mean salary premiums of about 9% -- or approximately $6,500 a year -- for cybersecurity workers over other IT jobs, according to Burning Glass, a company that develops AI-driven technologies to match people with jobs.
Burning Glass also notes that the retail, health care, and finance industries are seeing the fastest increases in demand for cyber-security jobs (a 137% increase over the last five years, in the case of finance, and 121% in health care).
To help get started in your search for the perfect cyber-security or any other IT-related job, we've put together a roster of iOS apps that can assist you with not only finding great openings, but in researching companies, tightening up your resume, and leveraging your network.
[See 10 Quirky Tech Job Interview Questions That May Stump You.]
As for how to go about your search, John Lees, a career strategist and the author of How to Get a Job You Love, offered advice in the Harvard Business Review that some might say could apply to romantic prospecting: Don't hold out for perfection.
"Perfect means hoping and waiting, but doing little," writes Lees. He also advises job seekers not to rely on second-hand information alone.
"Find out what the job feels like from the inside," writes Lees. "Don't allow employer branding or media portrayals make you starry-eyed: look with energy, get offers, and ask the right questions. If it's a role that takes your resume in a risky direction, perform as much due diligence as you would if you were an investor."
Which is to say, these apps aren't the whole hunt but a great place to get started. Take a look and let us know what you think of them. Would you use them? What apps have helped you in your job hunts?
(All images on the following pages via the Apple App Store.)
Indeed is an aggregator that brings together listings from major job-search engines and job boards. For professionals, who are far more likely to apply from a job site than directly through an app, there's the option to have the link emailed, so it can be revisited with the necessary care.
The reviews of Indeed are overwhelmingly positive. People find it easy to use, and for those who feel comfortable attaching a completed resume and applying directly through the application, and process is said, by most, to be seamless. Several users said they'd received interviews after applying through the app.
JobAware by TapAware lets you search by industry and location, and includes an autofill feature that can fill out applications for you. A file-folder-looking feature helps to keep track of jobs. (Was that a dream job you applied for last week, or a second-choice job?) The app includes a "knowledge" section to aid your research.
This app is simply the mobile version of Career Builder. Thousands of new positions are posted every day. You can post your resume to the site to have employers reach out to you. You can also be notified when an employer views your application.
The app has been updated to allow the ability to attach resumes through Dropbox and Google Drive, and some old bugs have been squashed. So, if you've tried it in the past and found it frustrating, it just may warrant another try.
ZipRecruiter isn't as popular or as well-known as Career Builder, but it differentiates itself by searching hundreds of job boards and tapping into open positions that might not be found in the more traditional places. You can search for and save jobs and have identified matches emailed to you daily.
LinkUp calls itself the fastest-growing job search engine online today. Like ZipRecruiter, its selling point is connecting job seekers with lesser-known positions. In the case of LinkUp, that means positions only found on company websites. It calls these the "highest-quality jobs" and promises no duplicates, hoaxes or "job pollution."
How aggressively you use LinkedIn for your job search is your call, but participating in this online network isn't really an option. According to a Jobvite survey, 95% of recruiters use LinkedIn to search for candidates, and the same percentage use it to contact them. It's also a way recruiters vet candidates and keep an eye on potential ones.
LinkedIn also hosts countless blog posts that can help you to get better acquainted with a prospective future employer. It's also an easy platform for reaching out to contacts and asking their ideas about a company. Additionally, there's value in having a strong LinkedIn profile headline and summary. It's a way to impress and get noticed by recruiters who may overlook the common titles on your resume.
LinkedIn Job Search is essentially the job-search functionality in the online site, in app form. Arguably the best looking of all the job-hunting apps, it has a clean, straightforward user interface that allows users to search for jobs by location, titles, keywords, and job function. Users can save jobs and searches, receive recommendations and notifications based on their searches, see who they know at a company, and in some instances apply to jobs directly through the app.
It has an enormous database of jobs, from great companies, but the number of candidates who wind up applying for these jobs can make the process seem daunting.
Simply Hired claims to have the largest database of jobs across all categories, as well as the most comprehensive database of full-time, part-time, and hourly jobs in North America. Users can create a job search profile, which is said to create more relevant job matches, and receive unlimited job-alert emails.
Who can't use a little help in this area? Resume Star helps you create a professionally typeset resume that's "precision targeted" to the position or profession you're after. It's so confident it will work that it insists the app isn't a cut-featured freebie but the real deal. "Pay us only when you get the interview," is its smug assertion. (The in-app purchase details show a Standard Purchase for $5 and a Bonus purchase for $10 -- not a bad price for securing an interview.)
Also going for it: Possibly the most enthusiastic reviews in the Apple App Store. People appear to love it.
Who can't use a little help in this area? Resume Star helps you create a professionally typeset resume that's "precision targeted" to the position or profession you're after. It's so confident it will work that it insists the app isn't a cut-featured freebie but the real deal. "Pay us only when you get the interview," is its smug assertion. (The in-app purchase details show a Standard Purchase for $5 and a Bonus purchase for $10 -- not a bad price for securing an interview.)
Also going for it: Possibly the most enthusiastic reviews in the Apple App Store. People appear to love it.
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