Top Job Boards for 2010
Posted by Jason
It’s that time of year again - where the top job boards are announced. It’s the annual user’s choice awards, where both recruiters and job seekers pick the top job sites on the web.
Each year, WEDDLE’s conducts a year-long ballot of recruiters and job seekers to determine which employment related sites they like best. The 30 sites that accumulate the most votes during the year are named WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award winners - and they are coined as the “elite” of online employment sites.
What’s unique about the process is how the winners are selected. Job seekers and recruiters own the voting process, and the the awards are geared towards recognizing the web sites that provide the best level of service and value to their visitors, and help others make the best use of the best employment resources online.
Congrats to the 2010 Weddle’s User Choice Awards:
- Absolutely Health Care
- AfterCollege.com
- AllHealthcareJobs.com
- AllRetailJobs.com
- CareerBuilder.com
- CollegeGrad.com
- CollegeRecruiter.com
- Dice.com
- DirectEmployers.com
- DiversityJobs.com
- EmploymentGuide.com
- ExecuNet
- GetTheJob.com
- Hcareers
- HealthCareerWeb.com
- HEALTHeCAREERS Network
- Indeed.com
- Job.com
- JobFox.com
- Jobing
- JobsinLogistics.com
- TheLadders.com
- Monster.com
- Net-Temps.com
- SimplyHired.com
- 6FigureJobs.com
- SnagAJob.com
- TopUSAJobs.com
- VetJobs.com
- Yahoo! HotJobs
What’s a little surprising is only a handful of these sites have or are integrating mobile or social capabilities, something we hear and talk a lot about. These may or may not have an impact on next years results - since so many job boards are making significant investments in this space and moving in that direction. In fact, we’re hearing more and more about job boards trying to lose the “job board” label as the re-brand themselves.
You may agree or disagree with the winners, but regardless the polls for 2011 are open. You can cast your vote for your top picks now.
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January 27th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Thanks for sharing Jason.
Job boards will definitely need to address the ’social’ equation now.
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January 27th, 2010 at 11:02 am
As one of the owners of CollegeRecruiter.com — winner of this award four years in a row — I’m also surprised at how little most of the job boards have integrated mobile into their offerings. Although we certainly have a lot of areas where we’d like to make improvements, mobile is one where we’re a leader.
Candidates can sign-up to receive their job match alerts sent by text so they find out about new jobs immediately rather than waiting hours or even days until they’re next at their computer. This is very important when you’re talking about Gen Y college students as many only check email a few times a week now.
Employers with large or very difficult hiring needs can reach our database of 10 million students and recent graduates via targeted cell phone text messaging (SMS) blasts. The candidates sign-up on our site or one of our partner sites, confirm their subscription so they’re double opted-in, and employers can target by fields such as year of graduation, school, major, GPA, diversity, experience, and more.
Mobile is the wave of the future. We’re not going to be walking around with laptops or sitting down to desktops in the near future. As more phones resemble the iPhone but with sterling connections virtually everywhere like they have in Asia, more people will abandon their old style computers and move to mobile devices. Want to sit at your desk and type all day? No problem. Just connect your mobile to your flat panel monitor and full-sized keyboard, much like we’ve done for 15 years with docking stations for laptops except your mobile will connect wirelessly.
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Jason reply on January 27th, 2010 1:44 pm:
Steve, thanks for the additional thoughts on mobile and congrats on winning for the fourth year in a row!
Jason
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January 27th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Great article. I totally agree with the Social Media and mobile movement for job searching. I founded TweetmyJOBS.com because this paradigm shift is the future. The site is built on top of Twitter (ergo the name), so it’s social, real-time, and mobile. Hopefully we’ll make the list next year as more jobseekers and recruiters use social media to connect,
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January 27th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Although not a traditional job board like Monster or CareerBuilder keep an eye out on JobsDirectUSA in 2010 and beyond. In just under two years JobsDirectUSA (see: http://www.jobsdirectusa.com) has grown to become America’s first-ever National Job Search Member Organization. JobsDirectUSA features over a dozen tools and resources for Job Seekers - at no cost - and also incorporates the elements of mobile integration (search jobs on JobsDirectUSA via your iPhone or PDA) and social networking. JobsDirectUSA displays over 1 million jobs on it’s website from Indeed, other job boards, newspapers, employer sites and classified ad websites.
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January 27th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
I find it fishy that Craigslist is not on this list. Posting your resume there is the #1 way most of my clients are gaining job interviews, as it’s completely FREE for recruiters to source resumes on, and only ~$75 to post a job. In today’s budget-concious times that is a big deal. LInkedIn.com is another since recruiters can post openings within the “GROUPS” section for free. More recruiters are using those two boards than half of those listed combined.
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