Although America’s Job Exchange (AJE) is a new site, with limited traffic typical of a new entrant, below the surface is an old friend, the now shuttered yet award winning AJB. So AJE is mature far beyond its years.
Maturity brings refinement, but just as important, the AJB/AJE interface was designed without the constraint of profit motives … no ‘featured ads’ clutter the results, no fear of direct comparisons to other sites limit filter choices, and no worries about generating metrics in support of high advertising rates guided navigational flow. This freedom is reflected in the many basic search options, filters and sorts that give jobseekers unmatched control of the search process. Hopefully this won’t change now that AJE is privately funded.
Yes, content is important. So is search accuracy. But the benefits of both pale without placing control of the search process in users’ hands. And among the remaining twelve competitors, no site provides as many basic filters and sorts for date range, geography and relevance, as America’s Job Exchange.
For example, AJE provides the following options for limiting ads by date:
¾ Within Last Day
¾ Within Last 2 Days
¾ Within Last 3 Days
¾ Within Last 4 Days
¾ Within Last 5 Days
¾ Within Last 6 Days
¾ Within Last 7 Days
¾ Within Last 14 Days
¾ Within Last 30 Days
¾ Within Last 60 Days
On the other hand, LiveExpo takes a page from the Craigslist playbook and provides limited options for filtering and sorting results by relevance for user-specified date ranges and distances surrounding specific geographies. Too bad – after finishing third in round three, Microsoft’s LiveExpo places last in this round and exits the competition.
Best Job Sites – Round 4 Results
- America’s Job Exchange
- JobCentral
- Indeed
- SimplyHired
- Jobster
- CareerBuilder
- Monster
- HotJobs
- Jobs.com
- GetTheJob
- Oodle
- LiveExpo
On to round five … which of the remaining sites offers users the most compete set of advanced ‘filters’, ‘sorts’ and search options?
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