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The Google Empire made another big step forward recently with the rollout of Google For Jobs. This innovation promises to improve job searching (or candidate-searching) which is great. It’s also a fresh new local marketing opportunity especially for mid-sized businesses in small towns or suburbs. Let’s take a look.
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How Does Google For Jobs Work?
Let’s say a jobseeker looking for a new opportunity searches for “sales jobs Hyattsville”. The results pull up job openings in or around this Maryland community. It’s the career equivalent of the “rich snippet” where answers to your question appear right in the top box of the search engine.
Google isn’t stepping in to challenge CareerBuilder, Monster or any of the major career sites. Rather, Google is making itself the one-stop shop for search by curating content from all of these sites—along with postings on company websites—and delivering them to interested searchers.
Who Benefits?
Residents and businesses in smaller communities stand to gain the most. The job searcher that wants to avoid a long commute has just found a better way of finding employment close to home. It also means local businesses improve their chances of retaining talent.
Still, the impact on the employment search process only scratches the surface of this new feature. Google has uncorked yet another search audience, and they have interests beyond their need to land a job.
If It’s Google, It’s Marketing
Look at the screenshot again. Above and below the Google For Jobs results, you see what you see on any other Google search—a pay-per-click ad at the top and organic search results underneath. As this develops further, we may begin to see local search results too. For example, let’s say the job search is more specific—a search for plumbing jobs may trigger the appearance of several local plumbers, much like a search for “plumbers Hyattsville” does.
What does this mean for the local business beyond the job search process? It means with some creativity, digital marketing and local search campaigns have new opportunities. If you’re a business in Hyattsville and you sell plumbing tools – isn’t it logical that someone searching for “plumbing jobs” will be interested in plumbing tools too? Now you’ve got new online real estate to run a PPC campaign or rank high in organic results.
Make Sure You Look Good
Since competitors have the same opportunity, it’s imperative to make sure your local search efforts are up to snuff. Take action to be listed in all the appropriate directories and verify your data accuracy.
If you haven’t personally entered in your company’s directory info, get the correct access information from the person who did. Few things will drain your time more than fixing error filled directories—but it costs much more in terms of search results if you leave inaccurate information in place.
Former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, famously said, “All politics is local.” Here an old-fashioned Irish politician gives us some SEO wisdom. The Google For Jobs rollout is just one more step in making all search local.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Google Jobs
