Find Your New Job Easily With These Reliable Mobile Job Search Apps

Nowadays, finding the "dream job" or even just any decent job can be tough. And while competition for limited professional high-paying corporate jobs is intense, there's now a great number of mobile job search apps that can greatly help you achieve your future "work goals."

So don't lose hope and try one of these job search apps below.

Monster

Monster is like the simplified version of LinkedIn/LinkedIn Jobs but without the people network. The app lets you search for job leads, track your job applications, update your resumé (no online portfolio like LinkedIn), receive messages (some legit and some are not), and tweak your settings.

The best advice is to make sure that your resumé is current and updated on all of your mobile job apps. This way, you are sure that you're sending out the same content whenever you're blasting an Easy Apply resumé from whichever app you are on.

The Monster app is available for iOS and Android users.

Indeed

This app doesn't come with all the bells and whistles you would see in other apps like LinkedIn, but since Indeed is a job lead aggregator, you'll probably find many of the same job leads here that you'd find on the other job search apps.

Once you update your resumé and set up your job search agents (via the web interface), you'll be taken to a ton of job leads under "Recommended Jobs" from the app's home screen.

You can download the app for iOS and Android.

LinkedIn

The app for LinkedIn is the simplified version of LinkedIn.com. All of the base components appear at the bottom of the app's screen -- Home, My Network, Messaging, Notifications, and Me. The Home screen of the app looks similar to Facebook's news feed, and sometimes a job posting or two.

And similar to the features offered in the LinkedIn website, the app allows you to update your resume, add companies you've previously worked with, add contacts, co-workers, former supervisors, and so on. Besides the social and labor component, it also shows us loads of news related to your work interest. If you want to be updated, all you have to do is consult the app's main page.

The app is available for iOS and Android.

LinkedIn Jobs

As versatile as the LinkedIn app may be, LinkedIn Jobs is somewhat bare bones. The app's home screen also functions as a place where you can do a search. The only searching parameters you can do here is the "Job title or keyword" and "Location." It'll default to whatever location you have set as yours from your LinkedIn member account.

One of the best features of this app is the Easy Apply, which lets you use your LinkedIn profile to quickly apply for a position instead of having to fill out those dreadful online Applicant Tracking System job applications. However, to make sure that your job application doesn't disappear elsewhere, you still need to use the main LinkedIn app to contact those companies you would like to pursue your application with.

Download the app for iOS and Android.

Glassdoor

With the Glassdoor job search app, you can easily find the job you really love and get hired. It provides access to the latest job listings from companies hiring right now, and you'll have an inside look at company reviews, salaries, benefits, and office photos shared by those who know the company best -- the employees. It also has a tool called Know Your Worth, which can help you determine how your market value has trended over time, how your market value compares to typical workers in the same field, and also plot your current base pay.

With Glassdoor, you can tap into the world's most comprehensive career community to search job openings, discover your earning potential, and see what it's really like to work at thousands of companies worldwide.

The app is available for iOS and Android users.

Internet of Things: Best Practices for Users Who Own Connected Home Gadgets

The Internet of Things (IoT) is based on sensors and controls in different gadgets. When those different gadgets are used to create a smart home, they can give residents unprecedented control and insight. The proliferation of smart devices, however, also opens the door to new dangers and threats.

Remember when you’re installing a device in your home that it is really just a tiny computer. Even with something as simple as a smart light socket that you can control remotely with your phone, what makes that possible is the little computer in the switch that can talk to the Internet, and anything that isn’t secured on the Internet is fair game to hackers.

There are steps you can take to make cyber-attacks more difficult and to discourage the simpler attacks. Think of these steps as the connected home equivalent of putting locks on your doors and windows.

Be aware of the data each device can capture

Understand the sensors that are at play on each device in your home, so, for example, does your TV have a camera that’s facing out to the entire living room or the bedroom? Whenever you deploy something with sensors in your home, you’re raising your risk of unauthorized access. Make sure any cameras are pointed only at the specific areas you’re concerned about.

Make the most of the security features in the device

One of the major problems is that devices are deployed with some pretty insecure defaults. If you simply set up your devices with their default configurations, an attacker could use tools to find them and learn their passwords. You need to change the default passwords, and, if the device allows it, use a strong password with upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Some vendors can ship their products in an insecure configuration, but they will have built better security into the tool.

Keep your networks separate

A lot of modern wireless routers allow you to set up multiple access points off the same device. It definitely will never hurt to have one that’s dedicated for your home automation system, your TV connection, but keep a separate network for your computers and or phones. Give that network a separate password, so that if someone manages to steal your network password from your laptop, they won’t also get access to your connected-home devices.

Secure your networks

Configure your wireless router to make it invisible so that the associated Wi-Fi network cannot be found using automatic searching. Any user will need to know its name to make the connection.

Be careful about who handles your smart home network

Smart home device owners shouldn’t let unauthorized personnel touch them, especially the devices with USB ports. Watch out for scammers who offer to fix or improve your devices, or unauthorized shops that say they can repair it, but could instead compromise it.

Providing an Extra Layer of Security and Privacy When Browsing the Web

An increase in cyber-attacks and identity theft seems to make the Internet like a scary place these days. But computers and the Internet, realistically, have moved on to become a “need” in terms of work and even at home.

However, we often take to pause on the enormity of cyber-hacking attacks such as the one announced last year but had been going on since 2014 of a billion dollar identity theft from almost a billion Yahoo Mail users. 

But since browsing the web is an almost daily necessity both at home and at work, how can individuals protect and lay a sort of extra layer of security and privacy for their network and computers?

Make your password really hard to hack

Hard passwords include upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. They should be at least eight characters in length. They should also not use words or dates easy for hackers to find, like your pet’s name or your birthday.

Then, change your password regularly

A very common mistake made by users is to create one hard password, but then never change it. Remembering a long list of complicated passwords can be difficult. But no password is unbreakable. Hackers are better able to hack multiple accounts if those accounts all have the same password so never use one password for all your accounts. You can change your passwords annually.

Clear your browser history

This goes for your home computer, your work computer, or your friend’s iPad that are used on a daily basis. Internet browsers like Firefox or Chrome keep track of where you’ve been and what you’ve done online. They keep records of every site you visited. Information about what you sent from or saved on your computer can be kept for days or weeks. It is very easy for anyone who sees that information to steal a detailed record of your online activities.

Don’t use free Wi-Fi

An increasing number of public places now offer free wireless access to the Internet. Often, a user does not need a password to connect to these wireless networks. These services might be useful, but they’re also an easy way for hackers to access everything on your device. Unless you really need it, it is best not to use it, and don’t access financial accounts using free Internet.

Watch what you click

One of the most successful ways hackers infect your computer is through a technique called phishing. This occurs when someone opens an e-mail attachment that looks real. But the attachment is actually a virus that immediately infects the user’s computer. If someone sends you a file or a website you did not ask for, it is best not to click on it.

Avoid using public computers

Those without a computer or Internet access at home often use Internet cafes to get online. However, the more different people use a computer, the more likely a virus or malware has infected it.

Have anti-virus protection

There are many anti-virus programs available. They can offer many different types of computer protection. Some anti-virus services are even free. They are a great way to have something professional keep users one step ahead of hackers.

Be careful while using flash drives

Flash drives are small and easy storage devices to use across different computers. They are a popular device that people use to exchange files and documents. They can also spread viruses easily across computers and networks.