About us

Overview

Established in 2004, jobRank^™ is the leading international employment gateway and search engine featuring reviews and rankings of over 4,600 job sites in 200 countries.

Job Sites

What we include

jobRank^™ currently includes worldwide job sites in the following 8 categories:

Job Boards & Banks
Niche Job Boards & Banks
Job Search Engines & Aggregators
Recruiters & Headhunters
Temp & Staffing Agencies
Au pair & Nanny Agencies
Labour Institutions & Organizations
Other Employment & Job Sites

We include only job sites that are popular enough to have a Similarweb Global Rank available.
For quality reasons, jobRank^™ does not include affiliate links within the ranking and/or portal listings.

Job Sites Ranking Methodology

Job sites are ranked by our exclusive jobRank Job Sites Ranking^™.

Our web-based job sites ranking has been published since May 2004. Since its inception, the ranking methodology has been periodically fine-tuned in order to provide better ranking results and/or to adapt to changes in the panorama of available web intelligence sources.

Job Sites Ranking components and algorithm

The current jobRank Job Sites Ranking^™ is based upon an algorithm including 4 unbiased and independent web metrics extracted from 3 different web intelligence sources:

Since the public availability of Google PageRank has been discontinued in April 2016, the Moz Domain Authority has been introduced in July 2016 as the most similar web metric to replace it.
In 2017 we have reversed from the Majestic total count of referring subnets to the Majestic number of referring domains which satisfies a minimum threshold of Majestic Trust Flow. This newly introduced filtering process of the Majestic referring domains based on their Trust Flow provides a better understanding of the number of quality referring domains each job site root domain has; it also overcomes situations where the number of referring links and referring domains is artificially inflated and manipulated through unnatural or paid links schemes, which are strongly discouraged and a violation of our and Google's guidelines.
The Similarweb Global Rank has been introduced in 2017 to verify, complement and enhance the data offered by the Alexa Global Rank. Unfortunately, in May 2022 Alexa ceased its service and Similarweb has become the only source of estimated traffic ranking from the July 2022 ranking edition.

Job Sites Ranking validity and reliability

Rankings are not infallible and should not be taken as the only criteria to select a job site. Ranking methodologies can be prone to errors and bias at different stages starting from the selection of the ranking criteria and their weights in the final algorithm, the chosen sources of data and their availability/reliability, the process of data collection and so on. The jobRank Job Sites Ranking^™, in this regard, has limitations when it comes to appraising and ranking job sites in countries with limited internet access and penetration rate.

Job Sites Ranking process

Web metrics data are collected in the same week to minimize temporal fluctuations and maximize comparability. A pre-computational filter is adopted to detect outliers in the raw data. Further investigation and a review of the Similarweb Global Rank data are carried out for job sites adopting a subdomain (highly not recommended) as their official job site home page.
Once outliers are detected and subdomains data reviewed and adjusted, web metrics data are normalized to a scale of 0 to 100 taking into consideration the logarithmic nature in which the Moz Domain Authority and the Similarweb Global Rank are expressed. The normalized values are aggregated based on a weighted average algorithm which generates the final score and ranking.

Job Sites Ranking algorithm disclosure

The jobRank Job Sites Ranking^™ algorithm is not disclosed for copyright reasons and to minimize potential attempts of manipulation from unethical webmasters in order to achieve a better rank. The same philosophy is adopted by Google with regard to its search engine ranking algorithm.

Unranked Job Sites

Some job sites are not ranked and listed at the bottom of each country listing for one of the following reasons:

the job site does not have an official website.
the job site's official domain has not been reachable for an extended period at the time of the ranking process.
the job site adopts an internal URL as its official website. The adoption of URLs, as opposed to root domains or subdomains, is highly not recommended.
the jobsite's official website is hosted by wordpress.com, blogspot.com or other global free hosting services.

Job Sites Ranking aim

The jobRank Job Sites Ranking^™ aims to provide an approximate global ranking of world job sites based on their web presence and popularity in terms of estimated traffic, domain trust/authority and quality link popularity. Our aim is to provide a League Table of the top job sites in the world based on valid, unbiased and non-influenceable web metrics provided by independent web intelligence sources. This is specially intended to help international job seekers, employers and recruiters to understand how popular a specific job site is in a foreign country.
We do not claim - by any means - to rank job sites by the quality of services provided.

How to publish your Job Site rank

To add your jobRank Job Sites Ranking^™ to your website you can find some embedded HTML code when clicking on the share link under your Job Site Rank in your Job Site review page. By doing so your rank will be automatically updated once we publish the new rankings.

Geographical classification

jobRank^™ adopts the United Nations geographical classification of Geographic Regions as shown in the webpage "Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49)" (under the Geographic Regions section) published by the United Nations Statistics Division. For this reason countries like Turkey and Cyprus are included in the Asian geographical area even if, from a political point of view, they might better fit under the European one. As explained by the United Nations Statistics Division, the assignment of countries or areas to specific geographic regions is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories by the United Nations; jobRank embraces the same methodology and philosophy.

Job Sites Information Updates

Data and information are added or updated on a monthly basis. The jobRank Job Sites Ranking^™ is updated and published once a year. You can follow us on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) to receive notifications on when the new rankings are published.

How to add a Job Site

To submit a missing job site please find the appropriate country listing in the portal and click on + Add Job site at the bottom right of the job sites list. Please note that we include only job sites that have a Similarweb Global Rank available.

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