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Ever wonder which skills and keywords result in the most employment search engine hits?
I was interested in finding out what skills were most in demand, and which keywords in a resume would create the larget number of useful matches. I ran some quick keyword search comparisons on 2 popular job search engines -- Monster.com and Dice.com. I could not use Hotjobs.com because it only showed the first 1000 hits. The results were interesting (looks like we should all know SQL).
Here were my results. The table shows a rough average number of hits for the various keyword and job catagories. In all cases, the searches were for only USA positions (all) posted within the month.
Position
Type Monster Position
Type DICE
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--------------- ----
SW
Developer 4420
SW Developer 6712
Analyst
3000
Analyst 3800
Administrator 1200
Administrator 1500
Technical Skill Monster Technical
Skill DICE
---------------- ------- ---------------- ----
SQL
3100
Unix
3931
Unix 3000
Oracle 3927
Oracle 2500
SQL 3514
C,
GCC 2410
Java, Javascript 3128
Java, Javascript 2330 MS
WinNT/2k/XP 2262
MS WinNT/2k/XP 2162
C++ 2042
Internet 2000
VB
1587
html 1861
C, GCC 1426
C++
1450
XML 1327
VB 1350
Internet 1263
XML
1079
html
1251
Solaris 793
Solaris 963
TCP/IP
729
Perl 800
Sun 640
TCP/IP 770
Perl
620
Shell
764
Linux 600
Sun
723
Shell 500
Linux
584
AIX 362
AIX
519
Novell
280
GUI
355
GUI 200
Novell 269
Kernel 62
Assembler 205
Assembler
58
Games
170
Python 46
Kernel 142
Games
40
Python
46
IRIX 35
IRIX
20
I think using the popular job sites for this was useful, as that is were most of us find published positions. Perhaps someone will be inspired to do a better analysis than this and keep a web page up to date with the results.