Workhound is a U.K. alternative Job Search engine.  
It provides a one stop shop for job seekers looking for that all important career move.


Workhound’s Mission Statement:
“We are building the platform and search protocols that will make the world’s employment data easily searchable to create actionable job search queries. Our goal is simply to be the first resource individuals go to when searching for employment information anywhere in the world.”

Getting Started with Workhound:
You can quick-search from the Workhound home page, as follows:

Step 1. Type words into the box marked ‘keywords’ that describe the kind of job you are looking for, such as a job title, skill or company name.
Step 2. Type into the box marked ‘Location’ the city, town or post code where you want to find a job.
Step 3. Click the ‘Search’ button or hit Enter on your keyboard.  Jobs will be returned that match your keywords within 25 miles of the location you specify

Exact Phrases
To find jobs containing an exact phrase, put double quotation marks around the words.
For example, enter: “IT Manager”

Capitalization
The search isn’t case sensitive. It makes no difference whether you enter upper or lower case letters - e.g. “sales executive” will give you the same results as “Sales Executive”.

Narrowing Your Search
If your search returns a large number of jobs, there are several things you can do. Look at the text links in the left hand column within the ‘Refine by’ panel. Click on those that fit what you are looking for, which will return a subset of your original search results.

To exclude jobs containing certain keywords. Just type “-” before any terms you don’t want.  To include jobs containing certain keywords. Just type “+” before any terms that must be included.

Advanced Search
If you wish to perfrom a more complex search query, try the advanced search with any combination of the following options:
- search with all of these words
- search with the exact phrase
- search with at least one of these words
- search with none of these words
- search within job title
- search within company name
- search location

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