An introduction to online recruitment statistics for recruiters. Unique users, audited users, registered users: what do they all mean? And are these things important when choosing a job board to advertise your job?

The short answer is yes. These statistics are important in helping you identify the best job boards to advertise your vacancies. But websites statistics face the same problems as all statistics. They can mean a thousand different things to different people. Website statistics can only help if you know exactly what they mean and measure and how they can be compared.

In the following series of articles we explain what each of most commonly quoted statistics means, why they are important and how they can be used when evaluating job boards.

 

Article Series

1. Next article: Unique users and visits on job boards

2. Registered users on job boards
3. Email subscribers on job boards
4. Job application statistics on job boards
5. CV database statistics on job boards
6. Page impression and hits on job boards
7. Audited statistics on job boards
8. Using statistics to choose a job board

 

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