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Colin Kennedy was working as a freelance audio and video technician when he decided to look for a full-time job his job seeking tool of choice his cell phone that's what's great about the mobile app as you can do it anywhere so you have no excuse not to be looking you know if you're walking the dog you know you you can be job hunting at the same time Kennedy tried a handful of new apps at aggregate listings and let you search based on keywords and zip code but found success with one called indeed I got a number of interviews from it as well both phone and in person at a variety of places I was hired within four days at Glassdoor we just did a studying we actually found that sixty-eight percent of job seekers are now using their mobile devices at least once a week or more perhaps more interesting eighty-five percent say they believe that mobile devices are going to be the number one job search device the best way to find a job in the next five years it's statistics like those that fuel CEO Pablo Fuentes in the team behind proven another mobile app for job seekers people are most of the time not more than ten feet from their mobile device so that enables them to react immediately to opportunities that may show up and to have all their documents that really matter to them for their job applications for resumes and cover letters locked and loaded and ready to go and in today's competitive job market timeliness can be the key factor to landing that position in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News