Spotlight on Hong Kong’s job market
For Hong Kong job-seekers, the overall job market has improved during the last quarter. Recent data shows that the Hitwise Employment and Training category claimed a 14.96% share of all Business and Finance traffic, up from 12.5% at the start of April - almost a 20% increase for the quarter.
This Hitwise category features online job databases, employment classified sites, employment agencies and human resource management services. It also includes any sites related to job seeking, vocational training and career development.
Of all the online job database and employment classified sites visited by Hong Kong Internet users in June, the top two sites account for almost 40% of the industry. The most popular site being the Labour Department's Employment Service (www.jobs.gov.hk) with 20.14% of the category, followed by JobsDB.com (www.jobsdb.com) with 18.4%.
Local Hong Kong websites held a 93.4% share of traffic to the Employment and Training category for the week ending July 1, 2006 and the average session duration for the employment sector overall for that week was 6 minutes 44 seconds.
Fast Mover - 7-Eleven
www.7-eleven.com.hk
Position week ending April 1, 2006: 5,473
Position week ending June 10, 2006: 2,973
Position jumped: 2,500
One of the fastest-moving sites monitored by Hitwise during June was the official website of Hong Kong's convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, www.7-eleven.com.hk. 7-Eleven Hong Kong offer items such as food and drink, magazines, medicine, CDs, MP3 songs and services such as recharging Octopus cards.
7-Eleven Hong Kong's "Tabo World Cup Key Cover Collection 2006" promotion which runs from May 12 to July 11 has seen its website rapidly rise 2,500 places to rank 2,973 in all categories for the week ending June 10, 2006.
The site recorded a rise of almost 200% in market share between the week ending April 1 and June 10, 2006 for the Food and Beverage - Brands and Manufacturers category, increasing from 1.25% to 2.28%, and an average session time of 1 minute 56 seconds over the same period.
Category Spotlight: Community - Organisations
This section includes websites of specific non-profit, non-government organisations, operating in the community - national, cultural or specific language organisations and community clubs. The data below is based on All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 24/06/2006 » Ranks by 'Visits'.
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Hitwise Hong Kong Newsletter - June 2006
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