The following is the first in a series of reports that will be published by eQuest. Below is a brief U.S. overview of that report.
San Ramon, CA - USA - January 12, 2010 -eQuest announced today the findings of its statistical reporting on job advertisements on the Internet for 2009.
Monster and CareerBuilder Still Preferred When Posting Jobs to the Internet
The majority of eQuest's U.S. customers still prefer Monster and Careerbuilder as their preferred destinations when posting online job advertisements. In a sampling of 400,000 unique jobs posted to each board between June 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, both Monster and Careerbuilder garnered staggering traffic numbers, totaling almost 200 million viewers in just 6 months - well above the traffic stats of any other online job source.
Free job boards and job aggregators doubled incoming candidate traffic from 2008
eQuest customers found a sharp rise in candidates responding from free job boards during 2009 with over 15 million in total. GoogleBase scored first with eQuest customers as the most selected free board to post job positions.
Social networks gain interest but performance yet to be seen
eQuest customers have turned up the heat on tapping into social networks for job advertising - FaceBook, Twitter, and MySpace to name a few. Although statistics are presently lean on performance, TweetMyJobs has surfaced as the front-runner on best investment at this time with the eQuest customer base.
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