Quick - Name the Two Fastest Growing Job Sites on the Net....

Hitwise recently released traffic figures for the major job boards, and to me, the average HR user, there were some surprises...

First up, the top two sites that appear to be growing are job.com (which I've never been to) and Indeed.com.  I'm intrigued by the Indeed model, and might post about it in the next week or so.

An even bigger surprise is the traffic levels flowing to the top three sites that have mind share - CareerBuilder, HotJobs and Monster...

Check out the numbers below.  It seems that CareerBuilder is spending the most money to grab market share via ads, so the fact that they have ascended into 1st from a traffic perspective shouldn't be surprising.   The biggest surprise for me is HotJobs being in second place.  I guess there are obvious advantages from a traffic perspective with being linked to a portal like Yahoo, but my experience with HotJobs is this - I don't get any candidates from them when I use the board.

And then there's Monster.  Traffic is down by 54%.  Ouch.

Here's one HR/recruiting person's opinion.  I get the most utility from Monster, closely followed by CareerBuilder.  HotJobs isn't even on my radar, mostly because they haven't delivered for me in the past...

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong....

Top 10 Visited Employment Websites ranked by Market Share of U.S. Visits for the week ending Jan. 26, 2008
Rank	Domain	U.S. Visits w/e Jan. 26, 2008	YoY Change
1	CareerBuilder*	12.96%	-6%
2	Yahoo! HotJobs	11.18%	84%
3	Monster*	4.32%	-54%
4	Job.com	4.11%	43%
5	Indeed*	4.07%	92%
Note - the Hitwise data featured is based on U.S. market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. * - The market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains of this website which are reported on separately.
Source: Hitwise

Tip of the Hat to Cheezhead for the link to Hitwise....

Comments

[Frank Giancola]

KD,

I primarily use monster, careerbuilder, and indeed. Never heard of job.com, but will try it. hotjobs doesn't generally have anything the others don't. I also use career specific, state sponsored, and minority sites, like ihispano.

Thanks,

Frank Giancola

[HR Wench]

I'm all about Craigslist, Monster and Careerbuilder. Yahoo doesn't deliver for me as an HR pro OR as a job seeker unfortunately. I have had a bit of trouble lately with Monster as a job seeker - their zip code and city/state radius searches seem to be off (I set it for a 20 mile radius but it only includes results from 100+ miles away). Maybe it is a user error...
I haven't tried Indeed or Job.com. I will have to check those out.