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WEDDLE’s Announces 2008 User’s Choice Award Winners

Global ballot selects the best of job boards and career portals.
Difficult economy makes this year’s selection especially important for job seekers.

WEDDLE’s (www.weddles.com), the largest publisher of print guides to job boards, announced the winners of its 2008 User’s Choice Awards. These awards are the only recognition in the $6+ billion global online employment services industry where actual users—job seekers, employers and recruiters—get to pick the winners. The 2008 Awards are sponsored by Bernard Hodes Group (www.hodes.com), a leading provider of integrated talent solutions.

“In today’s challenging job market, it’s important to know the All Stars of the job board community. That’s what these 2008 User’s Choice Awards winners represent,” said WEDDLE’s Publisher Peter Weddle. “Equally as important, they haven’t been selected by a panel of pundits, but by the working men and women who use those sites to find jobs and hire new employees.”

There are now over 40,000 employment-related sites operating in the U.S. alone and an equal number operating elsewhere around the world. They include stand alone enterprises and sites affiliated with newspapers and trade publications, professional associations and societies, college and trade school alumni organizations, radio and television stations, and a wide array of affinity groups. Like the Zagat restaurant guides, WEDDLE’s publications and its annual User’s Choice Awards help consumers make smart selections among all of those options.

Each year, the public is invited to visit the WEDDLE’s Web-site and cast their ballots for their favorite job boards. The thirty sites with the most votes at the end of the year are declared the User’s Choice Award winners. While clearly not a scientific survey, the poll does reflect the intensity of support sites enjoy among job seekers, employers and recruiters alike. A person has to take the time and make the effort to participate in the balloting, so those that do feel strongly about the sites they select.

One-third of the 2008 winners are general purpose job boards that serve a broad cross-section of professions, crafts, trades, industries and locations. The remaining two-thirds are niche sites that specialize in a specific industry, career field or geographic location. Five of the niche sites focus on the healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical industries; three specialize in serving executives and senor level managers, and two focus on the IT field. Among the other winning niche sites were those that specialize in finance, entry level positions, hospitality, logistics, Hispanic professionals, veterans and the staffing industry. All of the sites were U.S. based except Workopolis which serves the Canadian market.

The 2008 User’s Choice Award winners are:

Absolutely Health Care Indeed.com
AllHealthcareJobs.com Job.com
BioSpace.com JobCircle.com
CareerBank.com Jobing.com
CareerBuilder.com JobsinLogistics.com
CareerJournal.com TheLadders.com
CollegeRecruiter.com LatPro
ComputerJobs.com Monster.com
Craigslist Net-Temps
Dice 6FigureJobs.com
EmploymentGuide.com SimplyHired.com
ExecuNet SnagAJob.com
Hcareers VetJobs
HealthCareerWeb.com Workopolis
HEALTHeCAREERS Yahoo! HotJobs

Are there other good job boards out there on the Web? Of course. What distinguishes this group, however, is that actual users have taken the time to express their support for them. There’s no higher compliment a job board can receive, which is why these sites deserve to be known as the elite of the online employment services industry in 2008.