Career Website Research

Our Mission

Through researching and awarding the 'Career Website Award', Talent Table aims to improve the corporate career site and the experience of candidates making it easier for our talent acquisition community to engage candidates and recruit their people.

Why?

Because your career website offers more than a mere listing of job openings. It presents an opportunity to captivate prospective employees with your compelling employer brand, offer glimpses into your company culture and values, and furnish vital information for the hiring process

No matter the initial path applicants take to explore job opportunities, they will eventually discover your career website. While statistics from Recruiting Trends 2020 reveal that 54.9% of applicants utilise internet job boards, 32.3% rely on career networks, and 31.1% turn to search engines to discover vacancies or potential employers, following our advice will ultimately lead them to your career website.

What is the Career Website Research Project?

Talent Table partners with Digitaal-Werven (translates to Digital Recruiting) and Bas van de Haterd to roll out the research project in Australia.

This research, conducted annually, has been carried out conducted in the Netherlands since 2009. During that time, the research has resulted in career sites in the Netherlands improving to be some of the best in the world.

Our vision is to provide insight and research into career websites in Australia to help our community understand what good looks like and deliver a great career site and experience for their business. And in the process, raise the standards of career websites in Australia.

The Research

Our corporate careers site research consists of 130 data points in the following categories

Usability - Job search, presentation of the results, alert services, chatbots
Content - In diversity, remuneration, the application process, privacy, employer branding
Job descriptions - Design, length, specific information, branding messaging
Visual design - Look-and-feel, readability, photos, video
Application process - Ease to apply, mystery application, time to reply, quality of reply
Mobile accessibility

The top five organisations will be nominated for the award with an independent judging panel, with the winner being announced in late September.