Keeping your options open? Looking for the new big thing? LinkUp offers a way to search the jobs that don’t show up in Monster or other big job sites. I was initially really excited about LinkUp because well, you know, I’m graduating later this year and am scouring the web for librarian jobs like you wouldn’t believe [personal sales pitch: if you’re looking to hire a fabulous young librarian who has a good head on his shoulders and makes killer brownies, send me a note: infodoodads.michael@gmail.com] and keep seeing the same jobs recycled in the same places.

However, once the results showed up I was a little disappointed. A search for “librarian” in the location “Arizona” brought up 2 results. Both were for corporate positions, which is interesting, but one of the links wasn’t even valid anymore. I know for a fact that there are more library-related positions available than that. Changing librarian to library produced many results, but mostly software engineer positions–not something I’m qualified for, yet. So if you are a software engineer, this could be an excellent tool.

The user experience exists in a tabbed browsing system. Your results are in the first tab and any jobs you view from those open in new tabs–all within the webpage, not your browser tabs. I really enjoyed this feature a lot. All in all, the interface is simple and very useful, but the search engine obviously needs some more refinement.

Aside from the job search, they offer a resume storage/submission system. It appears to be fairly standard, in comparison to other sites though it does offer a tracking feature which would be convenient if applying to many jobs in the same time frame.