Finding a Job - Help
What's a Keyword Search?
mycareer.com.au's Targeted Keyword Search is one of the most useful search tools in helping you find the job you’re made for. By refining your search to include only the jobs that contain the keyword(s) you entered, you can spend more time viewing the right jobs and less time searching through irrelevant ones
So if you were to enter ‘Marketing Manager’ into the Keyword Search, roles with that title will rise directly to the top.Power searching with keywords.
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What are search criteria?
This is the information you select to help narrow down your search to include only those jobs that interest you. By specifying more or less criteria you can control how wide a net you cast.
The most common tools to focus your search include:
- Sector: select from a list of industries
- Subsector: select one or more specialisations within your chosen sector
- Location: select from cities and regions in Australia, New Zealand and overseas
- Salary: remuneration range (may include benefits such as superannuation, car…)
- Search Last: select how recently an ad must be posted to be included in your results
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What is Advanced Search?
Advanced Search is an expanded search function that lets you select multiple sectors, subsectors and locations in a bid to find the right job. Here you can limit your search to only include government jobs, include more than one sector at a time, or specify the type of work you are after – like part time for example.
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How can I run the same search again quickly? / What is 'Last Search'?
To save you time, we’ll save your search criteria and display them as your ‘Last Search’ on the home page. We’ll even run your search and show the top three matches just below it. Next time you come to the site, just click ‘Re-run Search’ and away you go.
When you’re getting search results that are right for you, click ‘Email me jobs like these’ from the Search Results page to turn them into a Job Alert.
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Why doesn't Last Search show my criteria?
For Last Search to work, you need to have searched first. Try doing a search, then click HOME and check again.
If your search criteria still do not show, you may need to refresh the page by holding the CTRL key and clicking the ‘Refresh’ button in your browser
If you’re still having trouble, make sure your browser will accept cookies.
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Power Searching
With so many different jobs and so many ways to categorise them, we recommend trying a few different search combinations from time to time.
Make the most of our targeted keyword search to help focus on the jobs you want. Try entering a job title, a specific skill that might be required, or both! You can also use keywords that help define a particular job type of job like ‘Night Shift’.
Here are a few more search tips to make it easier to find the job you’re made for:
| Command |
Example |
Description |
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And
&
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Television and Journalist
Television & Journalist
Television Journalist
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Keywords separated by ‘and’, ‘&’, or a space will return ads containing both words. Ads with only one of these words will not be displayed. |
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Or
,
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Television or Journalist |
Keywords separated by a comma or 'or' will return all ads with containing either the word 'Television' OR 'Journalist'.
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| Not |
Journalist not Magazine |
Keywords separated by 'not' exclude ads containing the specified word. |
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"__"
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"Television Journalist" |
Keywords with quotation marks around them will return ads where the words appear together. |
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( )
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(Project Manager or Product Manager) not Technical. |
Use brackets to search for subsets of words when also using other words. |
| * |
Tele* |
Returns ads containing words staring with Tele. Example: Television, Telephone, Telesales and Telemarketing. |
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Why browse?
The Browse tool is a great way to get a quick overview of a specific industry or location. You can check out the most popular jobs, find out who are the biggest advertisers, or just keep an eye on what jobs are out there.
Follow our simple step-by-step process, selecting a sector then subsector and so on until you find the job you’re made for.
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What are Recommended Jobs?
Our unique Job Recommendation Engine tracks your search requests and those of hundreds of thousands of other jobseekers. Using our Superior Search Technology, the engine will then suggest jobs you might like based on jobs you’ve liked before and the viewing patterns of other jobseekers like you.
The more you search, the better our recommendations will be.
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How are search results ordered?
Any time you use the targeted Keyword Search, your results will begin with the closest match. All other searches will be displayed by date unless you choose one of the options below from the ‘Sort by’ menu:
Salary: Orders results by salary, displaying the highest salary first
Advertiser: Orders results alphabetically by company or recruiter name
Date: Orders results by date posted, displaying the most recent jobs first
Job Title: Orders results alphabetically by job title
Location: Orders results by location
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How can I find a job I saw in the newspaper?
Newspaper ads online? You better believe it!
Advertisers can choose to place their job ads either online, in a newspaper or both. Therefore, not all ads that are printed in a Fairfax newspaper appear on mycareer.com.au and vice versa.
Ads that appear in a newspaper and online are loaded onto mycareer.com.au early in the morning on the day of their publication and remain on the site for between seven and 30 days.
If the advertiser didn’t post the ad online, you can contact the newspapers for back issues.
The Age: You can have newspapers from the last 6 months delivered to your local news agent the next business day for no more than $2. Just call The Age Home Delivery Hotline on (03) 9604 1460 to organise it.
Sydney Morning Herald: You can have newspapers from the last 2 weeks delivered to your local news agent. Call (02) 9282 3802.
Back issues of both The Age and Sydney Morning Herald are also stored at the Victorian and New South Wales State Libraries.
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Where can I see a list of all sectors and subsectors?
Right here. The list will open in a new window. You can even print it out for easy reference.
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Why haven't I received a copy of my application?
If you ticked the box to receive an email copy of your application but haven’t received one, it might be because of your email security settings. Try checking your Junk Mail folder to see if it’s there.
If this is the case, it doesn’t mean that the company or recruiter did not receive your application. It just means your settings may be causing unfamiliar emails to be automatically diverted from your inbox.
To stop this from happening in the future, simply add ‘mycareer.com.au’ to your ‘Safe List’. This will ensure that all mycareer.com.au mail will be delivered to your Inbox. Here’s how:
Outlook 2003:
- Click ‘Tools’ > ‘Options’
- In the ‘Preferences’ tab, click the ‘Junk E-mail’ button
- Select the ‘Safe Senders’ tab, then click the ‘Add’ button
- Enter mycareer.com.au in the pop up box and click ‘OK’
- Click ‘Add’ again and enter fairfaxdigital.com.au, then click ‘OK’
- Click ‘OK’ to close both settings boxes
Hotmail:
- Log into your Hotmail account
- Click ‘Options’ > ‘Junk E-mail Protection’ > ‘Safe List’
- Enter mycareer.com.au in the box and click ‘Add’
- Enter fairfaxdigital.com.au and click ‘Add’
Yahoo:
- Log into your Yahoo account
- Click ‘Mail Options’ > ‘Filters’
- Click the ‘Add’ button
- Enter mycareer.com.au in the ‘From Header’ field
- Select ‘Inbox’’ for ‘Move the message to Inbox’
- Click ‘Add Filter’
- Click the ‘Add’ button and repeat to enter fairfax.com.au
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