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Introduction to the study

Jaap van de Putte, 2 use it | Date: September 5 2008

Full article:  searching-a-job-online-part1-200809.pdf

Nowadays most people in the Netherlands find a new job online. We suppose that is the case all around the world. Traditional media like newspapers and magazines have lost the battle for the job seeker. People search and find their jobs on their favorite job board, for example Monsterboard or Nationale Vacaturebank.

Evaluation of the search function on 9 job boards

To assess the usability state of the Dutch vacancy sites we studied the search function of seven Dutch job boards and two foreign ones, an English one and an American one. We report on this study in five online articles, that will all be available free of charge (published under the GNU Public License) on www.2useit.nl. The subjects of the articles are:

This article is Part 1, the 1st part of the series.

About the study

With a group of 30 students from the Academy of Digital Communication of the Hogeschool Utrecht (School of Higher Education, the Netherlands) we evaluated the keyword search function of 9 job boards in May 2008. These included seven Dutch boards:

To relate these boards to world wide developments we have included two boards from abroad: a British one and an American one:

For practical reasons we only inspected the keyword search function and not the category search.

Next article: The search interface on job boards

 

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