eQuest's Big Data for HR division regularly studies the Online Recruitment space and reports interesting trends and facts.

1. Issue #4
March 2013
Recent News
March 5
eQuest Adds Another One
Hundred Million Job Board
Performance Records to its Big
Data Warehouse
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Who is Visiting Your Website?
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Did You Know… that only 49% of your site traffic is Human? The
rest (or 51 percent of Internet activity) is created by bots, 800.495.4479
according to data released by Incapsula, a cloud-based security
service. Here is the breakdown:
• 49% - Human
• 20% - Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, etc…)
• 19% - Spyware – (covertly gathers information to seek
competitive advantage)
• 5% - Hacking Tools (software that visits a site to crash it)
• 5% - Scrapers (pulling info off your site and publishing
somewhere else)
• 2% - Comment Spammers – posting malware and
annoying content to bog your site down
(Source: Incapsula.com)

2. • Of the over 180 countries eQuest provides job delivery
service –we delivered jobs to career sites in 147
countries in 2012.
• Five new countries entered into our “Fastest Rising
Country” list. Based on the comparison of delivery
volumes between 2011 to 2012 - here are the winners for
2012:
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- France
- China
- India
(Source: eQuest Big Data for HR)
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