Today’s job search engines are far more than a directory of the latest job offers on the market. In order to stay ahead in the highly competitive field of online job portals, these sites need to provide more and more services to job seekers, develop a platform that is intuitive, practical, and user-friendly, and attract a wide range of quality job offers from recruiters while carefully vetting them for potential scams or abuse.
In this short article, we’ll take a look at five of the more popular, more effective, and better-designed online job search engines for the US market. The criteria for being placed on this list are a combination of quantity of offers, quality of offers, additional resources provided, and the overall reputation of the site, which is largely based on user feedback.
Lensa
Built by dedicated professionals with the belief that technology can be used to drive more value to job seekers. The AI-powered job search portal, Lensa was launched in 2015. Its platform has undergone many changes since then based on user feedback. And in consequence, what we have today is an extremely user-friendly, easy-to-navigate versatile search engine with an excellent reputation for effectiveness and customer service.
Quantity of Offers
Lensa’s competitive pricing has been attracting a large number of recruiters and hiring managers of all sizes – small, mid-sized, and large. Lensa currently boasts more than 10 million members with more than 85 million job alerts a month.
Quality of Offers
Lensa is dedicated exclusively to the US market.
Lensa’s job search engine uses the latest developments in AI to analyze data from millions of job offers and candidate resumes in order to match job seekers with the right job – the job they are qualified for, they are likely to get, and they are likely to thrive in. These insights can help inform job seekers as to the soft and technical skills employers look for in 2022.
Additionally, the AI-powered search engine can provide valuable insights into the latest hiring trends, which can help steer job seekers towards (and help them prepare for) more rewarding career paths.
Additional Services
Lensa strives to satisfy job seekers both in the immediate and the long term. They provide job seekers with resources such as a blog covering the latest trends in the job market, how to carefully craft a resume, and how to impress in a job interview. They also have a Workstyle Game which consists of puzzle-like challenges to help evaluate an applicant’s soft skills and give them insight into the type of work they are more likely to thrive in.
Reputation
Lensa scores a high 4.3 out of 5 stars on the user feedback review site Trustpilot. The reviews celebrate Lensa’s outstanding customer service and the effectiveness of both the search engine and the additional resources in helping users find a job.
Glassdoor
Part of the mega-successful holding company Recruit Holdings, Glassdoor started off as a platform where employees could leave reviews about their experiences working with various companies. It has since gone on to also be a search engine that allows job seekers not only to find job opportunities but to gain insights into the companies they are considering applying to.
Quantity of Offers
Glassdoor boasts over 11 million job listings and nearly 60 million unique monthly visitors. Glassdoor is huge, and they have a strong and stable mother company backing them.
Quality of Offers
Glassdoor allows potential candidates to easily research and vet the companies they are considering applying to. So, while the offers themselves may present a mixed bag, the job seeker has the power to impose their own standards of quality control in a relatively easy fashion.
Additional Services
The strength of Glassdoor is in the company reviews they host. By researching the companies job seekers are applying to, they can get a better idea of whether or not they would be a good fit or are likely to provide a positive work experience.
Reputation
Glassdoor is widely regarded as the best for employer research. While some of the review sites such as Trustpilot are not always kind to Glassdoor, that is understandable when you take into account all the bosses and company managers who don’t take kindly to their ineptitude and abuse being exposed online (which does represent a non-negligible portion of the reviews Glassdoor hosts).
FairyGodBoss
FairyGodBoss is a job search portal designed exclusively for women. From this concept, they have grown into a community of peers and professionals that help women find jobs and succeed in the workplace.
Quantity of Offers
Because they make a concerted effort to reach out to companies who hire women or want to hire women, they may not offer the most job opportunities of the job search portals on this list. But they are not a niche job search portal and the chances are high that you will find there many job opportunities in your sector of activity.
Quality of Offers
Recruiters and hiring managers who post job offers on FairlyGodBoss know that the platform is designed to cater to the woman’s perspective.
Additional Services
From message boards to blogs, the FairyGodBoss community is comprised of peers and pros there to guide job seekers all along their journey to finding a job and beyond.
Reputation
FairyGodBoss is the largest career community for women. It has gotten favorable press from The Atlantic and Forbes, among other media outlets. The platform seeks to provide guidance for successful women who give up a lot.
Indeed
More of a professional networking site or social media platform for business professionals, Indeed can also be an excellent place to find out about and apply for job openings.
Quantity of Offers
According to TalentNest: 2019 Source of Applications, Interviews, and Hires for North America, Indeed can be credited as the source for nearly 47% of hires in the US around that time.
Quality of Offers
Indeed excels in terms of quantity, but the quality of the job offers is a mixed bag. Job seekers are encouraged to network and research the companies they are applying to when responding to offers on Indeed.
Additional Services
Success often comes down to who you know, and Indeed strives to help job seekers and business professionals, especially on that front. Indeed is a community where people can share their profiles, skills, achievements, and more. They can network with and follow employees and managers at companies they are targeting and thus increase their chances of being in the know when an attractive position becomes available.
Reputation
The results speak for themselves: nearly 47% of all hires in the US can trace their original contact back to Indeed, and more than 250 million unique monthly visitors worldwide.
Jobs2Careers
Jobs2Careers is a comprehensive job search engine that – much like Lensa – strives to help job seekers not only with a temporary solution but also with their longer-term career goals. The user interface is easy to navigate, and the platform is free for job seekers.
Quantity of Offers
Jobs2Careers doesn’t fair as well as their competitors in terms of the number of offers (at around 150,000).
Quality of Offers
Approximately a third of their offers are for part-time or hourly positions. So, depending on what you are looking for, that could be an argument for or against the site.
Additional Services
It is with the additional or auxiliary services they provide that Jobs2Careers stands out. From help with writing a resume and practical tips on impressing recruiters during a job interview to tips on how to successfully negotiate a starting salary, this platform seeks to offer more than a platform where job seekers can find a job but a platform where they can get the help they need to land the job and develop their careers
Reputation
Jobs2Careers has an excellent 4.5 out of 5 stars score on Trustpilot. Users frequently commend the platform for helping them get a job. This is especially true for part-time workers.
In a Nutshell
Finding a job can be difficult. But in today’s market, there are many effective job search engines that can help you. We’ve selected the top 5 based on the quantity and quality of offers, additional services provided, and reputation. All these platforms are free to use for job seekers, and you don’t have to stop at only one. Use all five and further increase your chances of landing the job you want.
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