2009 Job Posting Data

by Paula Santonocito

Yesterday, eQuest, a leader in job posting distribution, released 2009 statistics on job advertisements, and the findings are noteworthy.

Even though a number of industry experts predict the death of job boards, and indicate that big boards especially have fallen out of favor, eQuest finds otherwise. The company's data shows that a majority of its U.S. customers still opt for Monster and CareerBuilder when posting jobs online.

eQuest reports that it sampled 400,000 unique jobs posted to each site between June 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, and the traffic at both Monster and CareerBuilder was staggering: almost 200 million viewers for the time period, which was well above the traffic stats of any other online job source.

Based on these findings, it certainly seems like any eulogies for job boards should be put on hold.

It's also worth noting that the fastest growing site for eQuest last year was Craigslist, which was up more than three times from 2008 in terms of  job postings and candidate traffic.