Comments on: readers select their favorite job site

By: The Middle

The Middle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:57:57 +0000

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!

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:46:12 +0000

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.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:13:30 +0000

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.

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:44:05 +0000

quantcast reports realach at 328,900 users globally across their network.

http://www.quantcast.com/realmatch.com

By: Wesley Snipes

Wesley Snipes — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:13:53 +0000

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.”

By: survey says

survey says — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:06:17 +0000

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?

By: jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:34:29 +0000

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.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:09:31 +0000

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

By: Michaela

Michaela — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:04:34 +0000

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

By: Michaela

Michaela — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:54:59 +0000

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