「Google for Jobs」、アメリカで提供開始

マイナビニュース 2017年6月22日

米Googleは6月20日(現地時間)、Google検索を使って求人情報を見つけられるサービス「Google for Jobs」の提供を米国で開始したと発表した。同社は5月に開催した開発者向け会議「Google I/O 2017」において同サービスを紹介していた。

大手求人サイトと提携

同サービスでは、2016年に発表された、Googleの機械学習ツールを使用してキャリアサイトや求人掲示板などでの仕事の検索を支援する「Cloud Job API」を採用。デスクトップまたはモバイルのGoogle検索で、「jobs near me(近くの仕事)「teaching jobs(教職)」などの言葉を入力すると、Web上から集められた求職情報のリストがカード形式で表示される。

信頼できるサイトによる雇用主へのレビューや評価を確認できるほか、Googleにログインしていれば自宅からの通勤時間も表示される。業種や職種、求人情報が掲載された日付、勤務形態などで検索結果を絞り込むことも可能。また新しい求人情報が追加された場合はメールで通知を受け取ることもできる。

LinkedIn、Facebook、Glassdoor、Monster、WayUp、DirectEmployers、CareerBuilderなどの大手求人・就職サイトと提携し、これらのサイトに掲載されている求人情報を検索できる。さらにサードパーティの企業や直接雇用者も同サービスを使って求人することが可能となっている。

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Lifehacker.com 6/20/17

Google launched its new Google for Jobs initiative today, which puts job listings from all the major job service sites in one easy-to-search place.

When you start looking for a new gig, it usually involves opening tab after tab of different job listing sites, then typing in a search query, followed by endless scrolling until you find something worthwhile. Well, Google thought that was a waste of time. They’ve partnered up with job services like Monster, LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, Glassdoor, Indeed, WayUp, DirectEmployers, Facebook, and more to put all those listings in one place.

Go to the Google Search page on desktop or mobile, enter a search like “jobs near me,” or “IT jobs,” and you’ll be shown a massive list of every job that matches your query. Then you can tinker with various settings to make your search more specific.

You don’t actually apply for these jobs through Google, however. You’re shown the complete job listing, what kind of work it is (full-time, part-time, contract, etc.), the date it was posted, and company ratings from sites like Indeed, Glassdoor, Kununu, and Careerbliss. Some listings will even show the commute time if you’re logged into your Google account and have your home address included in your profile. If you see a job you like, there will be a button that says “View on [origin site],” which will direct you to the place where you can actually apply. Sometimes it’s a job service site like Monster or CareerBuilder, and sometimes it’s the company web site. If you’ve ever used Google Flights to search for bookings, it’s kind of like that.

You can also customize your job search with various filters to narrow things down even further. You can filter the job category (and search multiple categories at once), job title, date it was posted, the type of work, location, company type, or keep your search within one employer. So, say you want to search for a full-time job in Computers and IT, with the title of manager, at a manufacturing company located in your city, that’s just been posted in the last three days. You can do that.

Better yet, you can make that search, then set up alerts for any new jobs posted that fit into those parameters. I tested out the alerts function and was sent an email for a new job posting the instant it went up.

Google isn’t exactly reinventing the wheel with this new feature, but they are greasing it up by gathering all the listings it can find, removing duplicate postings, and hiding jobs that are irrelevant to you. Even so, they have no interest in competing with other job service sites—it’s strictly a new feature of search. After all, the Google for Jobs initiative wouldn’t work without the collaboration of other job sites. The new search feature is young, but as Google for Jobs continues to improve, there won’t be much of a reason not to at least start your job search with it. You’re almost guaranteed to save yourself some time.

Patrick Allan