What engines lack

While the many job search engines have novelties, beneficial functions should be: map drawing, geographical salary increase, and exclusions.

When I see jobs in cities and towns that I don't know, I pop up a window and see in on google, etc. This is important because of local cost of living, relocation, accessability. Hammond and Gary jobs might offer tantilzing salaries until you figure the cost of living is substantially higher there and getting safe, affordable housing is near impossible. Comutes in these towns would also be longer. If the employer doesn't help with relocation, there is the cost of finding a place, perhaps knowing no one in the area.

The [insert state, city, zip, area code here] is nice, but being able to draw a shape on a map would be better. Find a job in any of these states, cleverly excising Chicagoland, Detroit proper, etc.; there would be a search!

As the job seeker moves away from a real driving distance, the more money that person is seeking for relocation costs and base salary. If you are established in Chicago and they want to you uproot and go to Martinsville, LA, you'd want some sign-on bonus or greater salary.

Finally, in searching, while you can read through categories, you'd want to exclude a few jobs. There is a jobsearch engine that has hundreds of categories. So ... hunt with that will you? What more engines need are exceptions or exclusions. Suppose you are interseted in sales promotion and marketing, but some of the jobs are missing one or both of these terms, for whatever reason. You may never seek insurance sales, but are interested in other sales positions. Search engines should ALL include exclusions. Selling insurance is for a special breed.