Searching for jobs, viewing their details and applying has just got even easier and faster: with our Windows Vista/7 Gadget you can search for jobs directly on your desktop.

This gadget will also be of special interest to our lower-bandwidth users, because the only data that is downloaded is for the jobs that match your search.

Download the Gadget now and once it’s up and running don’t forget to set your country preference by clicking the little settings icon on the top right of the gadget (it appears when you hover over it).  For full installation and usage instructions follow this link.

Today sees the launch of the next enhancement to the Windows Sidebar Gadget: v0.3.  To get hold of it, simply download it now!

The key enhancements are:

• New ‘Distance’ selection dropdown on the settings dialog.  Provide a hint to our search engine as to how far you want to travel out of the location you specify on a search.
• New ‘Industry’ selection list.  Now you can isolate your searches to one industry, or a combination of industries, within which our recruiters post jobs.  So now, if you’re only looking for ‘Sales’ jobs, you can select that industry only and then use the skills search field to specify kind of sales job you want.
• Added ‘Today Only’ option for job age.  If you use our gadget frequently (and we know that a good number of you do!), then you can now restrict your results to only those jobs that have been posted today.  An important thing to note with this feature is that at midnight UK time, all results will reset and your search will start to build up new results.
• Added an “All Countries” selection in the country dropdown on the settings dialog.
• Added ‘Email me this job’ feature.  On our settings dialog you can now provide your email address (Note: we never give out your email address to anybody, so it’ll be in safe hands!).  If you do this, then when you expand the full-job details, you’ll see a new link in addition to the Apply Now link.  When you click on the ‘Email me this job’, we will send you the full-text of that job and a link to apply to it.  You can only queue one email request per job in one 24 hour period; but there is no limit on the number of jobs you can receive by email.

Screenshots

The new settings dialog.  Note the 3 new fields: Email, Distance and Industries.

New Job Details Page – when you’ve entered an email address on the settings page, run a new search and open up a job’s details.  You will see the ‘Email me this job’ link.  When you click on the link, its text will change to let you know whether or not the email has been sent:

If you’ve already been sent an email for this job within the last 24 hours, then the link will change to “Already Sent Today!”.

What about my Google Gadget?

Yes, if you’re a fan of the Google Job Search Gadget, you’ll be wanting to know when all these features, plus the rest of the configuration features that were added in V0.2, will be available.  Rest assured, we are working on this as we speak and you can expect an updated version soon.

Anything else in the pipeline?

You bet!  We are expanding the idea of “JobServe any place, anywhere” and there are some very exciting developments on the way very soon indeed.  Keep coming back to the site, or subscribe to our Atom feed to keep yourself in the loop.