Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, today reported a 20 percent year-over-year increase in visitors to job sites, which grew from 41.5 million unique visitors in January 2008 to 49.7 million in January 2009.
“With the current unstable economy and rising unemployment rate, more people are heading online to search for jobs, and interestingly not just the unemployed. The career development category also grew 20 percent year-over-year among at work users, suggesting that many people are trying to build up their resumes and get a sense of the job market before the next potential layoff,” said Chuck Schilling, research director, agency & media, Nielsen Online.
In January CareerBuilder was the most trafficked job site with 20.8 million unique visitors. Yahoo! HotJobs came in second with 11.8 million visitors, while Monster.com was third with 9.5 million visitors.
Other job sites in the top 10 included Indeed.com, USAJobs.com, SimplyHired.com, and SnagaJob.com.
The report also said that the 65+ age group was the fastest-growing in the career development category, increasing 41 percent from 2.5 million unique visitors in January 2008 to 3.6 million in January 2009.
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March 11th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Another website which I tend to like is called http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com It compiles a list of available employment from several websites. It provides a good one stop to look for a job. Definitely worth checking out.