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On Feb 1st, Simply Hired attempted to stream line it’s user interface and increase the prominence of sponsored jobs in search returns. The result was the loss of the ability to sort job requisitions by date, which for myself and for many other job seekers made the site completely useless.
Many users pushed backed and many threatened to leave, (I’m sure many did leave). Blog traffic here has increased since writing the entry title Simply Hired has become Simply Useless. Much of the traffic was from Simply Hired employees.
Well the listened. After a couple days they announced that they would be making the change to reinstate date sorting. And a couple days ago they made it happen.
So Simply Hired is back to being my number one job search engine.
And I would even say that it has improved a little. There is better marking of search terms in the text of the returned requisitions.
Some people have complained about the sponsored requisitions that are returned. These are job requisitions that have paid to have their jobs shown first. When I was seeing these, they weren’t really useful, but I can understand them putting them first and getting advertising money from them.
I don’t see them because I an add-on called AD Blocker Plus on my Firefox browser which cuts out advertisements, so this section isn’t shown. I highly recommend this program.
Thanks to Simply Hired for listening to their users.
Chris,
ReplyDeleteIt is passionate people like you that make the Web a better place. Thank you for voicing your concerns and sharing your preferences. We took your blog post to heart and worked feverishly to reinstate the feature that you and others love.
Please keep the feedback coming. We know the job search process can be daunting. We're doing our best to make it a little easier.
All the best,
Daniel Greenberg
Chief Marketing Officer
SimplyHired.com
daniel (at) simplyhired.com
Sponsored Resukts still not relevant:
ReplyDeleteHi guys, try searching medical assistant in a city. I tried 'medical assistant' in Denver for example and top results were literally this:
1) Certified Nurse Assistant (Completely Irrelevant)
2) Assistant Manager for Petco lol (Completely Irrelevant)
3) Dental Assistant (Completely Irrelevant)
4) Dental Assistant (Completely Irrelevant)
5) Physical Therapy Assistant ((Completely Irrelevant)
Before the major switch, the top results were:
1) Medical Assistant
2) Medical Assistant
3) Medical assistant etc