eMarketer reports that CareerBuilder and Monster see the most traffic in the job site category, but other smaller niche sites also get traffic.

The top 20 most visited websites in Hitwise’s “Employment and Training” category represented 54 percent of total visits in this category for October 2006. The two largest job search engines, CareerBuilder and Monster, accounted for over a quarter (26 percent) of the visitor traffic. The influence of these two brands is even greater if the third-party job sites (eg, AOL and MSN) they power are added to their totals. Besides the general job search sites, there are a number of smaller, but popular, niche job search sites in the following categories: aggregator (Indeed), industry (Dice IT), geographic (Michigan Talent Bank and Work in Texas) and government (USAJOBS). Some large employer job sites rank high as well (Target and UPS).

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