Top 10 career-based sites in Europe

The study, from digital research firm comScore Europe, found that US-based monster leads the European market, with 8.8 million European visitors in March, up 17% over last year.

Monster is followed by German site Bundesagentur für Arbeit with 4.1 million European visitors, the most visited career site in Germany, and France-based ANPE Sites with 3.5 million European visitors, the most-visited career sites in France.

Bob Ivins, managing director of comScore Europe, said:  “Clearly, ease of use plays a factor in the growing popularity of online job search and development sites, but other factors – including speed, enhanced search capabilities, and reliability – are the major drivers of category growth.” 

Source www.comscore.com

^† Government-run Web site

* JobPilot is a Monster site

** Only includes Collegeboard.com

                              *** Includes Collegeboard.com AND Writingcommission.com 

Meanwhile, one-third of all European Internet users visited the Career Services and Development category in March 2006.  The category’s reach in 7 of the 15 European countries measured by comScore Europe outpaced the European average. 

In Norway, Sweden, France, Denmark, Belgium the Netherlands and the UK, more than one-third of the Internet users in each country sought career-related information during the month. 

 Among these, the UK attracted the largest visitor base to the Career Services and Development category with 10.6 million visitors (35 percent reach). Internet users in the 8 remaining countries were less likely than the average European Internet user to visit the category.

Source www.comscore.com