Latest traffic figures for the traditionally busy month of January show visits to recruitment websites in Australia surged to record levels.
The January RedSheriff rankings show all the major sites had big traffic increases (ranging between 35% and 50% over the previous month), and for the first time ever, market-leading site SEEK had more than 900,000 unique visitors.
In fact SEEK's traffic was up 48.5%, one of the biggest increases, to 902,000 unique visitors.
Monster ranked second with 486,222 unique visitors, a rise of 34.6%. It was followed by the Federal Government's Jobsearch site, with 481,000 visitors, an increase of 38.6%.
Fairfax's MyCareer was next with 465,322, an increase of 40.9% and then News Interactive's CareerOne with 417,501, up 39.1%.
Recruitment website traffic surges
seek.com.au