Guess Which Blog Is #17 in the “Career 100 Global Ranking of Top English-language Career Blogs”?
I just discovered a new inbound link to this blog from a site call RiseSmart, a job search site that says it “brings the human touch to online search.”
The site explains that it uses a “proprietary search engine [that] crawls the universe of job boards and corporate sites to find opportunities that match your criteria.” Then a “RiseSmart Concierge™ carefully reviews the opportunities identified for you, eliminating those that are not quality matches.”
Apparently, the “Concierges” are real people exercising judgment to narrow the results with criteria that can’t be plugged into any search engine.
RiseSmart currently offers a three-day free trial, and the intoroctory rate is $43.95 per month
In any event, the folks at RiseSmart (probably hoping for viral marketing like they’re getting right now from me) created a page showing the “Career 100 Global Ranking of Top English-language Career Blogs.”
I was very pleased to see my #17 ranking. I didn’t make the American Bar Association’s “Blawg 100,” which was the cover story (just about the only story) in this month’s ABA Journal, but I’m positioning this blog more in the general career market and don’t try to appeal to lawyers too much — so this ranking means more to me.
There is, of course, an algorithm behind the ranking. It includes direct votes, so if you’re liking what you see here, head over and vote.
congrats on #17…I am not even ranking anywhere yet…but I just started. It is nice that there are actually places out there that want to place you in the right place, not just get a commission for a warm body.
Uh-oh. I foresee more angst for bloggers who are rankings-obsessed! Better get those support groups fired up for those who don’t make the top 100 cut…!
By the way, keep up the good work. You have lots of interesting and useful stuff on your site.
Anita Bruzzese
http://www.45things.com