Search programs and masks for job search help you to filter specifically and get exactly the results you want. This leads to good hits, but can also limit the results. You will be provided with information about the things you are interested in, but at the same time you will receive little new impulses and you might miss important results. This also applies to your job search. Here you get some tips on how you can find even more suitable results for your job search on the Internet.

1. Search for a new job not only with your job title

Your first impulse when searching for a job: You enter your own job title as a search term for a new job. The controller searches for controller, the QA manager for QA manager. This is good, but it is not enough. This way you narrow your search to jobs that are probably identical to what you are already doing. In addition, you are targeting an obviously similar company structure, which is what these positions are called. But maybe you are open for similar, but slightly different positions and maybe this position is not named the same by all companies. There are also companies that use particularly creative job advertisements in their job advertisements.

My tip: Take a step back and find out how these positions are named on the market. For example the title: Head of QA is composed of two terms. Each term can have different variants: Head of can be used in the job title as: Director, Lead of or Associate Director (AD)in the job title. In larger companies also simply Manager. Around QA you might find Quality, Quality Assurance, FvP, QP or further specifications from the jargon. Search for more than one term and you will get more matching results.

2. Do not limit the search to your industry

The masks for job search allow the user to specify a branch of industry, so that the search results remain clear and the hits are accurate. Often you simply type in the industry you are currently working for. But beware: Here again, many good hits will be omitted for you. Do you really want to limit yourself to your current industry? Are there perhaps also peripheral industries or similar branches that make a change even attractive for you if it is the same job?

My tip: Be inspired by your professional environment or social media resumes. Find out who managed which industry changes, and how that person approached them. Sometimes a step forward in an integrated supply chain is also attractive. From plant construction into the customer's engineering department. From sales manager in a fine chemicals company to buyer in a pharmaceutical company.

3. Expand your search radius

The masks for job search suggest regions or even individual cantons. You can search by zip code or by kilometres distance to your place of residence. Again a selection criterion that makes exciting jobs invisible for you with just one click. Are you sure you can't or don't want to move ever? Home office is becoming more and more popular, who says that you have to sit there in the office 5 days a week?

My tip: Decide what private losses you are willing to make for a great job.

It's the only way to broaden your spectrum, get new ideas and why not spend a few years at Lake Geneva region? I have already placed family fathers on a very different location they might have thought of. The right job with a great salary isn't always on your doorstep.

4. Expand your keywords

Of course you do not only search for job titles, but also for terms in the advertisement text, for required skills or requirements. Candidates are sometimes tight and selective with search terms in the advertisement texts. Typically, you know the keywords in your current specialization and professional environment. But do you know the keywords of your dream job?

My tip: Research the keywords of your new dream environment. Social media makes it possible. See what other professionals, already performing the job you would like to have, write in their job profiles. Thus you can see what knowledge you're still missing. Maybe it's worth a stopover after all? I am always surprised by the answers I get to the question: "What did you find particularly appealing in the advertisement? It is often keywords or one special activity among many others.

5. Search also for jobs with less responsibility

A career change only makes sense for you if it is a management position? At jobs.ch, this can be selected with one click and is also highlighted accordingly in the job advertisement. This can make sense, but even a job without a management position might be interesting.

My tip: Do not be fixated on "Direct Leadership*. In the new agile organizational structures there will be fewer of these in the future, there are already companies without bosses. Better ask yourself what you want to move and what skills you want to implement. In almost every job you can lead people, inspire and influence them with your ideas. You just have to see it and then do it.

What currently applies to the obligation to use masks also applies to your job search: Masks for job search are only as effective as their users use them correctly and thoughtfully. Change regularly and check the fit! Good luck.