Linkme New Home Page

The team at LinkMe have been busy little bees. They have given the home page a face lift.

There is no doubt that the message to users is simple. LinkMe is not a job board - upload your resume and let employers/recruiters find you.

Although the job search feature is not easily visible on the new home page it is there and has had some attention by the tech team. It even passed my “Account Manager” keyword test.

All up, this simple approach works well here.

JobX, Search More Find Less!

I received an email from Jobx.com.au containing a bold statement regarding their job search functionality.

The JobX email here.

Search less, find more

Our search is faster, more efficient and is more likely to deliver what you are looking for than any other career site in Australia. Yes it’s a big claim, but we stand by it wholeheartedly.

I was excited by that statement and road tested it by checking out the search results from Jobx and then comparing the results with those from the major job sites. My results were as follows:

I typed in the keyword, “Account Manager” and chose location anywhere;

- Jobx - No1 result: Recruitment Consultant. Search results here

- MyCareer - No1 result:Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager. Search results here

- Seek - No1 result: Account Manager - Direct Marketing - 100k Search results here

- CareerOne - No1 result: Account Manager / Online Account Manager Search results here

Notice something disappointing?

While all the other jobsites came up with jobs directly related to my keyword search, Jobx’s results gave me a role for recruitment consultant as its premier listing. The Jobx role does not have the word ‘account manager’, my keyword search, in either its title or its short description. What of Jobx’s claim that it is more likely to deliver what I’m looking for than any other site in Australia? It seems that the other sites gave me what I was looking for…

Now, if you’ve got time and you do manage to get to the fortieth page of jobx’s search results , you will see that the final listing is for an account manager, but it’s dated September 18, 2007 - four months old and still listed.

C’mon, Jobx. Jobseekers want tight search results from current jobs.