Hitwise data showed Indeed surpassing Monster’s traffic back in late 2007. Now comScore data has followed suit with a list of the biggest gains in the job search category along with the lone Monster loss and a HUGE gain by SimplyHired.. Check it out..
Job Search Category
December 2008 vs. December 2007
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore Media Metrix
Total Unique Visitors (000)
Dec-2007 vs Dec-2008 % Change
1) CareerBuilder.com
2007: 5,132
2008: 9,121
% change: +78%
2) Yahoo! HotJobs
2007: 2,282
2008: 5,605
% change: +146%
3) Indeed.com
2007: 2,712
2008: 5,106
% change: +88%
4) Monster
2007: 4,131
2008: 3,776
% change: -9%
5) Simply Hired
2007: 1,188
2008: 3,104
% change: +161%
You’d think after the big Monster revamp – that 100% of the candidates would just flock back to the site, and forget all others. Oh, that’s right, candidates aren’t dummy’s and know that fundamentals of the job board world haven’t changed.
Sprayed staffing firm jobs, oversold to headhunters/firms who call/haggle them, spam, and now data theft AGAIN, and of course – rarely does my application go directly into the company website like it does on JC every time, so that I have to hope that corporate recruiters log into the job board to see my app – behind the 1,000 other people who machine gun applied for the same job….
Now that’s putting new lipstick on an old pig. No superbowl ads can fix this.
It is no surprise that another company has surpassed Monster. With the growth of their company they have become so commercial that they are almost ineffective. You rarely get great job leads now, most of what you recieve is spam in the form of work at home jobs.