Yahoo! Looks for a New Job - Indeed and WorkZoo, Job Search Engines
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There are a few job search engines already. Since they don’t have local listing and paid services like HotJobs, they feel more liberty to index everything regarless of source. Some of them do better than Yahoo! in this regard, but they lack HotJobs features like resume posting.
The first site I took a look at was Indeed (indeed.com). As far as its index, the site says, “Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages.” Basically, they pull from anywhere they can, a total of 1000 unique sources. I did a search for software engineer in Florida for posts in the last 7 days, and it returned 7,000 results. This is a lot, more than any of the other job search engines. Apparently, Indeed groups duplicate job entries together, collapsing copies of recurring jobs into one post. Since it's not counting duplicates, this is a huge result set.
Indeed uses the “what” and “where” boxes popularized by Google. It has Google ads. The whole interface seems very familiar. If Google wanted to compete with Yahoo! on job searches, they could basically buy this site and not change a thing.
Indeed Refinement and Results
The listings are rather minimal. They all include more description than Yahoo!’s and they don’t use annoying pop up windows. It would be nice to see more description though, since job hunting is easier with greater detail on the leads. One very nice feature about this site is that you can save a job hunt as an RSS feed; when new posting are added to Indeed’s database, you can easily stay up to date. The advanced search gives more keyword options, date posted options, and location.
WorkZoo (workzoo.com) is another job search. Again, on a user level it basically looks and works like Google Local, including Google ads. The site indexes from a wide variety of sources as well, prevalently large ones like Monster, but doesn’t seem as nearly as extensive as Indeed. The FAQ explain that they do filter out duplicate ads, but the site still only returned 320 jobs for the same software engineer search. This is the lowest score of any job search site. The site lets users search by keyword, location, date of ad, and distance from the location specified.
WorkZoo Result
If you are optimizing a website and want posted jobs to appear on WorkZoo, the site suggests you use LEAP (http://www.leaprss.org/). It is an RSS extension that shows meta data, and the LEAP website can help you create the feed. After building the feed, enter the URL on this page (list in WorkZoo). But be warned: as a form of spam protection, the site doesn’t use ads with titles all in caps.
Of course, I have saved the best job search engine for last.
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