Www.linkup.com is a job search engine that operates like Google. It indexes jobs from corporate career sites and job boards, categorizes them, and makes them available for searching. In other words, it operates like a specialized Google for jobs. It also makes money the same way Google does, by offering employers and recruiters a chance to bid for keywords, and to display these advertisements as a “Sponsored Job Listing” at the top of the result pages. Employers pay only if users click on these sponsored links. The site claims that up to 85% of job openings are published only on internal corporate webpages and never appear in the proprietary databases of sites such as Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com. The site also claims that their jobs are always current, and they weed out duplicate jobs, as well as fakes and scams.
How does www.linkup.com perform in practice? The job search is fairly straightforward, and the results are nicely categorized on the left sidebar, allowing you to refine your search based on the company or the industry. Despite claims to the contrary, there are some duplicate job postings in the results, although they are generally not so many as to make going through the results too laborious. The site also provides a useful email alert tool, which will email you new results from your search if you give them your email address. There is also an RSS feed which will also give you new results if you subscribe to the feed via an RSS aggregator such as Google Reader. All in all, the search engine performs reasonably well, and should be used as part of any serious employment opportunity search.