HR assignment
Prepared for: Beverley Mcnelly
Prepared by: Dana Al-Baadi
Date: 16-11-2012
Section #: 201
Name: Dana Al-Ba'adi
ID: 200900719
To start I first chose the 3 sites I'm going to work with:
Indeed: production manager. http://sa.indeed.com/?r=us
career builder: restaurant manager. http://www.careerbuilder.com/
SEEK: sales representative manager. http://www.seek.com.au/
1- Is there in difference in case of use and perceived value for job search among the
three sites?
For the first one, indeed, the site was a mess, it listed all types of jobs like a search engine similar to Google - and had endless pages of job listing, though the first time I did not specify a
location. After I wrote down a location "Saudi Arabia" and rather results were more than 30
pages of job lists. Than I wanted to narrow the search even more writing down the location as
"ad Dammam" but I had no options like other sites, I simply had to go back and write the
location over and over so it wasn't very user-friendly. But other than that it was useful. As a job
seeker I had a lot of options to consider.
The second engine is career builder, which I looked for restaurant manager. The results were a
160 pages worth of job listings, (this site showed jobs in the U.S) they had a lot of options to
help the job seeker to narrow their search, such to choose a category, a city, a company or a state.
It was easy to use and get around, provided a lot of information and very detailed information at
that.
The last one SEEK, I looked for a sales representative. (It's for jobs in Australia) the site had a
lot of option to make the search as accurate and relevant as it can. There are many options and
many useful details.
For a job seeker I would prefer using SEEK if it searched for the area I'm looking for. It's easy to
use, and understands.
2- Are there any differences in case of use and perceived value for each of the three
kinds of jobs being searched?
Even though the indeed search engine was searching for the job in a world wide scale the first
time, it still considerably short looking at career builder that had 160 pages worth of job listing
and it was only in the US. SEEK had an understandably number of pages but the incredibly
options helped balancing out.
The production manager was much higher to find jobs for than sales representative. But by far
the restaurant manager had the most results in all three sites, among the three jobs.
3- Identify the basic quality requirements in each site to maximize their potential value
to a job seeker?
For the first one; indeed. It was messy for sure, but it had a lot of job listing, and it looked in a
worldwide scale so it definitely was pretty useful. But it needs more organizing; it needs more
options and maybe a little bit of presentation. Put some color and a nice design. Any manager
would agree that presentation is important. Adding all the basic information other job search
engines has is a definite start.
Career builder; on top of I said earlier regarding its good quality, some of the things it needs is,
adding some color as well, white is good and all that since too much color is pretty annoying, but
Name: Dana Al-Ba'adi
ID: 200900719
adding a little bit of colors to make it more appealing. It could start to look for more than one
county. Adding some features to make finding part-time jobs easier and finding out about more
job details would be also a good quality.
The last site; SEEK, was by far my favorite, it had everything the only thing I would add to it is
my country.