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I'm actively seeking a new contract position so dusted off my accounts in both of these engines about a month ago. I also use a few other sites like Indeed, Fl
by Beestie 1y ago
I'm actively seeking a new contract position so dusted off my accounts in both of these engines about a month ago. I also use a few other sites like Indeed, Flex Jobs, remote.io, etc.
Couple things I have noticed. Indeed does the best job of recommending jobs based on the jobs I click on. Sort of like Amazon's "since you like that, you might also like this". Indeed is very good at it. Out of the six or so services I am now active in, Monster is dreadful at it. Their email recommendations and related job postings are so far off the mark, I gave up on them. Another interesting thing I've noticed is how some of the smaller boards like remote.io are using the same listings as the bigger boards - so much the same that I wonder if the bigger board also owns it.
Its been over a month so don't recall exactly which "niche" board was essentially a clone of the more mainstream board but when I'm paying for full access, I don't want to see the exact same listings. It was way beyond coincidence and no relationship was disclosed.
So I think Monster just got fat and happy and turned into the Blockbuster of job boards. Not sure about Careerbuilder.
One thing on my agenda for this afternoon is to completely remove/delete/truncate/smote my accounts with Monster and Careerbuilder.
- dylan604 1y ago> I've noticed is how some of the smaller boards like remote.io are using the same listings as the bigger boards - so much the same that I wonder if the bigger board also owns it. Could they also just be scraping other sites? Scraping seems to be the way for startups to gain traction without having to do any of the hard work of beating the bushes