The Way Google Helps You Get a Job

Getting a job proves difficult to many people who, one way or another, find themselves unemployed. But the tough part is not "getting" a job, which is a fifty percent deal, you either have what it takes or you don't; what's tough is finding a job that suits you best. Here's the story of a schoolteacher that used Google in order to do just that.

Vanessa Bernstein is a substitute teacher from Orlando, Florida, that beforehand went through what she describes as being a "primitive online system" of a subcontractor of the Orange County Public Schools. The problem was that she could only search all available substitute teaching jobs in OC and she wasn't able to further narrow down the search to nearby schools or she found partial information about the job but no address.

Going through the whole process of manually searching through the results will have most surely ended up with coming in second to the jobs, behind another teacher who might have done the same thing but started the search an hour earlier.

Now, here's the part that I said it came in fine print. She discussed the problem with one of her friends who, coincidentally, had a father working at Google and, just a couple of days later, she received an email with the URL to the app that would prove to be a lifesaver. Aw, just what she needed, when she needed it. If only it were that easy.

The result was that it only took her a couple of seconds to find a job, instead of a couple of hours at the very least just for sorting out through everything she had found, using the online system available to her. Google added to her story the information pointing to thecallbacks in GGoogleBarOptions, a new feature that was announced a few weeks ago, to call GDirections queries on every returned local search result as being what did the job.