Jobster is the silver medalist in the 2007 Top Sites for Job Search competition; an impressive showing for the most aggressive innovator in the business.
What makes Jobster great? No question, if there had been an eleventh round in this year’s competition, focusing on the social networking component of job search, Jobster would have won the round. No job site does it better.
Jobster also has more job ads (approximately 2.3 million) than bronze medalist CareerBuilder; fewer scam ads; and is fearless in reinventing the job search process.
Weaknesses? Search relevance could be better … leveraging the larger job ad database would be easier if the search engine was more precise. There are also a few usability quirks … e.g. user search settings aren’t consistently retained. And several other sites have more extensive career guidance information.
Bottom line – many jobseekers will find that the social focus of Jobster is enough to make this site their top choice. These jobseekers will get no argument from me.
The gold medalist? Click here.
Hey Bob,
Oops on my part. I wrote this in response to your CareerBuilder post from this weekend and then inadvertently added it to the comments to a July post. My bad. I did still want to share the sentiment.
The work you've done is fantastic and is a great illustration of what bloggers ought to strive for.
In my view, work like you're in the process of completing will strengthen the position of blogging in recruiting.
While obviously I’m pleased with the results so far for selfish reasons, it is this kind of deliberate work that should be what we in the industry and more specifically in the recruit-o-sphere should get excited about and blog about and debate.
We at Jobster are continuously making improvements across the board and are already looking forward to next year to see how the improvements, tweaks, and additions we make on almost a daily basis fair against the rest.
Congrats to SimplyHired and kudos to you. Thank you for endeavoring in what I’m sure is not a small undertaking.
Christian Anderson
Jobster
Posted by: christian anderson | August 06, 2007 at 08:06 AM