Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Making Fed Jobs Easier to Find

Making Fed Jobs Easier to Find
Monday, December 10, 2007 | 5:22 P

To reach more job seekers, the Office of Personnel Management announced last week that it has made job vacancies in the federal government more accessible to Internet search engines, like Google and Yahoo. Before job vacancies could only be searched by keyword from on the federal government's USAJOBS Web site. Now, a job seeker "who types in a job title on Google or other engines, such as "IT Specialist" or "Electrical Engineer," will now also see links to federal vacancy announcements in those fields," according to the OPM announcement.
That should make the 60,000 openings on USAJOBS a bit more accessible, although the site already gets 10 million visitors a month.

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