No Monkey Business here – CareerBuilder knows job search. As the bronze medalist in the 2007 Top Sites for Job Search competition, CareerBuilder proved through ten rounds that it is the best of the big-three job sites; but not quite the best of our top fifteen.
What makes CareerBuilder great? Wins in rounds five and nine show that no one beats CareerBuilder in the areas of advanced filters, sorts, search options, and supporting services. Add in the exposure available to jobseekers who post resumes, along with search engine technology that offers suggestions based on resume matches, and it’s clear that CareerBuilder’s traffic dominance isn’t solely a result of Super Bowl ad spending.
Weaknesses? Not many. The biggest is a relative lack of job ads … roughly 1.5 million, compared to almost 5 million on SimplyHired. Next is a willingness to accept questionable ads (e.g. work-from-home, make-a-fortune-working-part-time, upfront-fee-required, and tag-spam ads); and finally, a surprisingly mediocre performance in the search agent round.
Bottom line, if you’re looking for a job site offering comprehensive services plus a heavily trafficked resume system, you can’t do better than CareerBuilder.
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