Jobster has just been rated the 4th best site for active jobseekers in the Job Search Engine Guide

Only one site will emerge from this comparison as the best for active job search; yet all four at the top are winners in my book.

For our hypothetical jobseeker, searching for the site with the highest job market coverage (see the initial post for detail), Jobster delivers a score of 72% for 4th place.

Rank shouldn’t be confused with utility however – at 72% coverage, Jobster is in a higher class than the 5th place (52%) and 6th place (28%) finishers.

And of the top four finishers, only Jobster focuses more on helping jobseekers get noticed by employers, than on presenting the most job ads. This is critical since finding the right job is only the first step in the hiring process. Just as important for the jobseeker is avoiding the infamous resume black hole – the place where unescorted resumes go to die.

In the coming weeks, Jobster plans to broaden their coverage of the job market. Even so, Jobster is a top-tier site delivering 72% coverage – good for a strong 4th place for active job search.

Getting to this broad level of online job coverage has been an interesting engineering challenge, requiring us to build both technology and processes that scale to large numbers of job sources. We’ve created a specialized mini-language for extracting structured data from online job sources and an engineering process that includes both local and outsourced talent for developing and testing the code.