Startups & Online Business

CareerOne has relaunched their Jobs site and its gorgeous. You may have read the review I did on the Australian job sites a month or so ago here

‘I gave CareerOne a bit of a flogging as it just looked so unloved and plain ugly and didnt work so well, well I should have taken a screenshot because no one would be believe me if you looked at the site now.

The development team must have been fuming if they read my review because they obviously have been working on this for some time.

They also introduced RSS feeds which I love, it saves so much time to have all of the jobs sitting in your Google Reader and to be able to search them easily and see any updated in your Reader.

I would like to see all of the Cars, Property, Boats etc sites introduce RSS. I dont want to search on your site (and all your competitors) I just want it aall in one place.

The site has superb colors and fonts, is very readable and looks Web 2.0 enough without looking like a startup, and seems to operate well and the search function is very good (not quite as good as jobsjobsjobs.com.au but still pretty good)

My only feedback. The fonts in the body and headings are a little small (I know they look better that way but they affect readability and accessibility).

Also from an SEO perspective, they missed a few opportunities. Their H1 and H2 tags have been wasted on generic headings when they could have enclosed the jobs heading/description with H1 H2 Tags. They have managed to improve the page titles (ie they have inserted job heading in the page titles) however I would be tempted to push the careerone name to the end of the page title to improve the page relevance. Also they missed intersite linking opportunities by not including some form of breadcrumb and cross linking to other similar roles.

Overall well done guys