Alison Doyle, a writer who has covered job searching on About.com for a decade, decided a few weeks ago to ask her readers to name their favorite job site.
The contenders are Yahoo! Hot Jobs, Monster, CareerBuilder, Jobfox, Craigslist, Indeed, LinkedIn, RealMatch, Simply Hired, or None of the Above.
The winner (thus far), who has collected 226 votes out of the 900 cast, is Jobfox. Second place goes to Indeed with 198 votes. Hot Jobs comes in dead last with only 18 votes.
Click here to check out the results or to cast your vote.
What Doyle asks is a question that should be presented often lest we lose sight of the objective: to put the job seeker first and foremost, above metrics and funding and intemperate CEOs, and to create an easy one-click world full of job search fun.
UPDATE: About an hour after I published this post, CareerBuilder, who had only a handful of votes before, now has almost 900 votes. Shady, shady, shady. How long will it take before they completely destroy this poll, which only gives CB 16 votes?
November 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
These are apparently 2 different polls - one for human resources asking the recruiters to poll - which has full results, and the other is asking seekers to cast their votes. Apparently the seekers can still cast their (multiple) votes.
Susan M. Heathfield’s About.com page is the HR
Allison Dole’s About.com page is for the Seeker
November 10th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
If you hit the “go to Previous Page” link on either poll results page you can vote over and over again. Vanessa, I think you’ve created a (no pun intended) monster!
http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2008/10/19/do-you-have-a-favorite-job-site.htm
http://humanresources.about.com/b/2008/11/03/best-online-recruiting-job-sites.htm
November 10th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Neither CareerBuilder or JobFox were in the top three when Alison originally tabulated the results and called a winner here: http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2008/10/31/the-winners-top-favorite-job-sites.htm
November 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
So, how exactly did RealMatch make this list? They have about 50k visitors per month. Jobfox ranks next with over 600k. The others are in the millions. I find it hard to believe that her sources ranked RealMatch as a top resource to qualify for this poll. Hmmmmm.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Can you really determine that it was a legitimate poll or survey yesterday and that the results actually meant something? Let’s not pretend like this poll was ever a good indicator of the “people’s” most favorite job site. Regardless of whether the voting has got out of hand or not, there is now way to know if JobFox juiced the numbers yesterday… who really cares?
November 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I love these polls. They are completely accurate and the best predictor of what site is the most effective. When I was filming “Passenger 57″ I remember being approached by some pollsters about job boards. My response? “I don’t use job boards, for I am Wesley Snipes.”
November 11th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
quantcast reports realach at 328,900 users globally across their network.
http://www.quantcast.com/realmatch.com
November 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I think that it is funny that when this was posted, Hot hobs was dead last, and now look at them….#1, what a sham, very shady, very shady, All the recruiters that I know think Hot Jobs is the worst jobboard out there.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
The poll for job seekers allows the same cookie or IP address to vote as many times as you want so the results are highly suspect. The employer poll has an IP block on it so only one vote per IP address can be counted. You see the difference in the results? Why didnt they limit the job seeker poll by IP address too? Strange.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I took a poll once that asked me how honest I was on polls?????
Every site has good and bad things and each compnay has good and bad things about them.
CB has a ton of jobs and is pretty user friendly - they spam the candidates a bit too much and the prices to post go up each year regardless of results
Monster has a ton of jobs and candidates but the user exp is not that great and the company is in limbo
HotJobs is a good product and candidates tend to like it. Traffic has been down and with newspapers having a slow death they need to do something
RealMatch seems like a neat place for candidates and seems a bit more user friendly then Indeed or SH
JobFox - has great technology, not a ton of jobs or candidates and they are cutting head count by huge percentages. They seem in trouble…..
I guess if you could take JF technology and CB or Monsters $ you would have a winner!