2007 Top Sites for Job Search – Indeed Wins Again

   

Two rounds, two wins for Indeed.

   

In this second round, fourteen of the top general job sites were tested to find jobs for ten hypothetical jobseekers in Boston, MA.  Roughly five times the size of Tulsa, OK (round one test location), Boston provides plentiful job opportunities. Thus, this test puts more emphasis on the ability of each search engine to prioritize their search results.

   

Indeed continues to impress by providing the most relevant opportunities with very few duplicates.

   

   

Surprises in round two? 

   

GoogleBase dropped from third in round one to last in round two.   While GoogleBase did the best job of weeding out duplicates in this round, perhaps their methodology is too aggressive in eliminating marginal content and partial matches because in the end they returned the fewest relevant results.  As a result, GoogleBase won’t be back for found three.

   

Jobs.com jumped to third in round two, from ninth in round one – impressive, but I can’t explain it.  In round three we’ll see which of the previous rounds was a fluke.

   

Jobster tried my patience – their site was painfully slow yesterday – but no points were awarded or deducted for speed in this round.  Alexa data indicates that Jobster is “Slow (72% of sites are faster)”, but performance yesterday seemed atypical.

   

   

Best Job Sites – Round 2 Results

   

1. Indeed
2. SimplyHired
3. Jobs.com
4. CareerBuilder
5. America’s Job Exchange
6. Jobster
7. Monster
8. LiveExpo
9. Oodle
10. GetTheJob
11. Just-Posted
12. HotJobs
13. JobCentral
14. GoogleBase

   

   

Round three challenge?  Who has the most jobs listed for a small western town?  May the best site win.