If you are serious about looking for a job and looking for a position within a popular industry, you may find that you struggle to keep on top of new jobs coming on to the market. You can register with an online jobs board to allow you to browse through, but there may be new jobs coming on that you are missing. Most jobs sites now allow you to set up alerts. These are usually triggered by keywords or categories that are within job titles and descriptions. You can often set up a geographical location as well, so you will only be notified of jobs in your chosen area.
Once you have the alert set up you should receive an email every time a new job that matches your criteria has been added to the site. This allows you to have a read through and check if you are apply to apply for it.
Having advanced notifications of when a new job has been posted, means you will be able to get your application in quick. Although some posts will have a closing date, if they receive too many applications they may decide to bring that date forward or to stop taking any more references until they have gone through the first applicants.