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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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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 datebase.

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Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C.

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Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening.

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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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With thoustands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient.

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Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases.

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But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks.

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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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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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"None of these programs do that," says another expert.

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"There's no career counseling implicit in all of this."

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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; 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 minght interest me," says the author of a job-searching guide.

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Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to returen.

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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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There may be more matches in the database; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them-and they do.

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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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Even those who aren't hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile.

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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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Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBulider.

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"You always keep your eyes open," he says.

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Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.