Leveraging Google Maps to Job Search

Just something quick today

Google Maps is an amazing tool, not only can you find directions to places you want to go. You can also use it to find jobs that are advertised directly on employers Websites for your work sector.

Whilst this method isn't meant to be directly for job searching, it helped me find a few companies whilst I was carrying out my own search. This method can be used by both job searchers and recruiters. This is how I knew the names of a lot of companies and applied directly because the written description was the same that recruiters were using.

By default when you run a search on Google Maps, it only displays results within a certain radius (20 miles I think), in order to display a larger radius, you need to zoom out on the map

Here's the full procedure I used to do in full

1. Search my Home town, or a location
2. Right click on the map... select "search this area", and then zoom out
3. Type my queries into Google maps (e.g Warehouse Jobs, HSE Careers, etc) and search
4. When results are found, employers will be displayed in Red/Grey/Blue Markers
5. If no results are displayed, try clicking somewhere else on the map and search again.
6. Click on the employer (making sure it didn't say Job Centre/Recruiter)
7. Visit their Website through the links on the Map
8. Look around their Website for references to jobs
9. Rinse and repeat
10. Hint, most job/careers information are normally in page footer or "Contact us"

When results are displayed, make sure it doesn't say "Recruiter", or "Job Centre". Otherwise generally these are just sites with jobs readvertised. This method is what I used to find direct employer listings when running my searches.

A couple of notes about this procedure

- This doesn't replace job sites, or specific sites. It's meant to be an additional tool to help

- It can be buggy sometimes, which is why you have to make sure map is in correct area

- Experiment with search terms / keywords, it's amazing the results you find

- You will find employers listing jobs throughout the country, so if you know people looking you can help refer them as they may not know of the roles

- Don't search into your specific sectors. I've found jobs completely unrelated to my knowledge sector, but relevant to my skill set

Experiment with the multipliers to find more and more results

Example "Warehouse Vacancies", "Warehouse Careers", "Warehouse recruitment", etc. These can all generate different results

MULTIPLIER

• Careers
• Jobs
• Vacancies
• Opportunities
• Join Us
• Work with us
• Recruitment
• Roles

If you are stuck on what keywords to use. Here are some examples you can try. These are all different keywords I looked at when job searching

KEYWORD

1. "Town Name" + Vacancies (e.g Durham Vacancies, Sunderland Careers, Bristol Careers).
2. Office
3. Project (Multiplier word - Opportunities)
4. Supervisor (Multiplier word - Opportunities)
5. Transport
6. Animals
7. Zoo
8. Accountant
9. Financial
10. Welder
11. CNC
12. Payroll
13. Money
14. AAT
15. Paintball
16. Driver
17. Haulage
18. Electronics
19. Web
20. Warehousing
21. Systems
22. Database
23. Assistant
24. Laboratory
25. HR
26. Tyres
27. Housing
28. Data
29. Retail
30. Lettings
31. Legal
32. Safety
33. Health
34. Sales
35. Lead
36. Production
37. Senior
38. Executive
39. QA
40. HSE
41. Health and Safety
42. Marketing
43. Estate (Estate Agent)
44. Human Resources
45. HR Consulting
46. Information Technology
47. Repair
48. Mechanic
49. Motor Vehicle
50. Apprenticeship
51. Machine **Good Results**
52. Language
53. Microsoft
54. Worker (Generally finds care worker jobs)
55. Payroll
56. Software
57. Maintenance
58. Tool

Wishing you luck with your job search.