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He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site's "personal search agent."
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It's an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database.
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With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient.
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Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D. C.
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Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet.
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"I struck gold," says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company.
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Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening.
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But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks.
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Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases.
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Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: "Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility." says one expert.
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"There's no career counseling implicit in all of this."
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There may be more matches in the database;
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When CareerSite's agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobs -- those it considers the best matches.
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when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again.
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"I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me," says the author of a job-searching guide.
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Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return.
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For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept-what you think you want to do -- then broaden it.
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job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them -- and they do.
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Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database;
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"None of these programs do that," says another expert.
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"On the day after we send our messages, we see a sharp increase in our traffic," says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for CareerSite.
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Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder.
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Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.
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"You always keep your eyes open," he says.
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Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for their line of work or gather information on compensation to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise.
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Even those who aren't hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile.
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