Web-based mapping solutions provider Zubed Geospatial has launched a beta verson of Zubed Jobs (www.zubedjobs.com).

The site finds jobs directly from company websites and displays them on an a map-based interface, similar to a Google map.

Users type in a keyword, along with their town or postcode and search radius, for example, sales jobs within 3 miles of Manchester city centre.

Zubed Jobs uses complex semantic search routines to identify UK firm’s websites and the jobs posted on them. Employers can also post jobs to the site for free and employees can request for companies to be added. These vacancies are then listed within search results.

Ian Haynes, chief executive at Zubed Geospatial, says: “With unemployment being one of the biggest worries for the  UK at the moment, we wanted to show how Location Intelligence really can make a difference to everyone.

“Zubed Jobs is the result of extensive R&D activity into what combining search and semantics - the ability for computers to understand written human language - can achieve, and we expect that as we refine and build on the site, it will prove itself an invaluable tool for the workers of Britain to find jobs and help ease the recession.”