Social Media Enters Real World Job Seeking

A recent post on the comScore blog by Andrew Lipsman, who is Director of Industry Analysis at comScore, discusses the value of social media in what is a very tight US job market.
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mudah.my, jobstreet.com Top Malaysian Websites

comScore, Inc. has released its latest report on web usage in Malaysia, revealing the most visited Internet properties in general, and top visited local-based properties, based on the comScore World Metrix service.
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comScore Top 10 US Careers Websites

Last week we reported on the top 50 US websites for June 2009 according to comScore. careerbuilder.com ranked 39th and craigslist.com 16th – the only two job-related sites to make the general top 50. However, comScore reported seeing a trend of increased traffic to career services and development websites, and has just released a follow up report showing the top career resources websites for the US.
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CareerBuilder Climbs in comScore June Figures

A report from comScore has revealed the top 50 US websites for June 2009, highlighting job websites among those seeing an increase in traffic.

The report points out that the end of the US school year and a rising unemployment rate were contributing factors in the increased traffic to career services and development websites. comScore’s “Career Resources” and “Career Training and Education” categories were both ranked among the top ten gaining categories for the month: Career Resources websites grew six percent to 46.8 million visitors, while Career Training and Education websites grew 13 percent to 6.7 million visitors.

CareerBuilder LLC was the only jobs portal amongst the top 50 US websites for June. The website climbed 6 places to reach 39th position with 21.7 million unique visitors. The only other website linked to jobs to make the top 50 list was Craigslist, which came in at 16th place with over 46 million unique visitors.

These US based figures reflect a trend reported by comScore for France in its May 2009 figures, which showed careers service and development website use was up 45 percent on last year. Those statistics put CareerBuilder LLC at number six in the top 10 career services and development websites ranked by total French unique visitors.

Social media also had gains in June, with Twitter’s first appearance in the ranking at number 46 with 20.1 million visitors – a huge increase compared to June 2008, when it had less than 1 million.

Meanwhile, Facebook climbed to 6th position, up two places to its highest ever ranking. Social network tagged.com also grew, ranking fourth in the comScore list of top 10 gaining properties by percentage change in unique visitors from May 2009 to June 2009 with over 6 million unique visitors.

Visits to French Careers Sites Soar

comScore, Inc. has released a study of trends in usage of French online career services sites. The report, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service, showed that a total of 11.5 million French Internet users accessed a careers service and development site in May 2009, a figure which is up 45 percent on last year.
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