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App your way to a job

Cape Town – People may think you’re whatsapping your new love, but really you’re in the middle of changing your life.

As mobile takes over our lives, we find a convergence of all our needs - and that includes job hunting.

Most smartphones have access to some top South African job-seeking apps, like Careers24, Career Jet and PNet, which are easy to use and focus only on jobs. Gumtree and OLX are classified apps that have good career sections too.

If you’re on a Nokia Lumia, getHired is a simple but powerful job search app that blends eight job databases - including Indeed, CareerBuilder and SimplyHired - across 60 countries to display jobs on one page.

Job hunters are able to submit their CVs and portfolios, with links to cloud services like Google Drive and DropBox.

OneDrive allows you to store and share your work portfolio, cover letters, photos, videos and other multimedia which you can access anytime and anywhere (from a smartphone, tablet or computer).

LinkedIn has developed a cool app for job seekers wanting to stay connected. It creates an awesome space for networking, with an online CV getting the right exposure. Add your work experience, your skills and achievements and what networks you belong to. Link up with old and new colleagues and join their groups to find your way to job success.

So OK, you’re also on Twitter getting the latest gossip on why Brazil crashed so abysmally at the World Cup, but at least your life is a little closer to changing for the good. Right?

 - Fin24

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