Job Search Engines (About)
A job-search engine is a site that simplifies the job hunting (job search). These sites range from large generalists like Monster, CareerBuider, Hotjobs to small niche job sites. Job seekers can usually deposit resumes and show himself to potential employers, while the employer may place ads to search for potential employees.
Job search sites have grown from about 1000 to 30000 in 1996-2006 timeframe. A March 2005 survey found that nearly 75% of respondents use Internet as their primary method of finding a job, compared with only 2% using newspapers and magazines.
A recent trend in job search engines is the emergence of vertical search, where you can search engine to index the results of several other search engines in the same area. Examples of the work in this area are Indeed and SimpleHired. These sites have a one-stop-shop for millions of jobs (as opposed to thousands), and they are beneficial to the traditional job sites (such as Monster.com), providing more efficient use of their resources and target their advertising.
A trend in developing job search engines (or job boards, as they are often called), is encouraging users to their CV (curriculum vitae) and contact details. This offers employers a degree of privacy and avoids the review hundreds of applications, the result of an advertisement on a website.
The success of search engine jobs in filling the gap between job seekers and employers have been proved by thousands of other sites, many of which list job opportunities in a given sector (unlike Monster or Carreerbuilder), such as education, health care, hospital management, and academics, too in the non-governmental sector. Most of these sites have a selected group of customers.
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