We’ve collated a list of the most popular employment websites in Australia and ranked them by their estimated monthly traffic according to SimilarWeb. Take a look at the table below to see where Backpacker Job Board features in the list of best job sites.
2023
| Rank | Website | Logo | Domain name | Estimated monthly traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seek |  | seek.com.au | 21,930,000 |
| 2 | Indeed* |  | indeed.com | 9,269,000 |
| 3 | Jora* |  | au.jora.com | 2,319,000 |
| 4 | Workforce Australia | workforceaustralia.gov.au | 1,771,000 | |
| 5 | Glassdoor* |  | glassdoor.com.au | 957,521 |
| 6 | Ethical Jobs | ethicaljobs.com.au | 488,876 | |
| 7 | Smart Jobs QLD | smartjobs.qld.gov.au | 436,296 | |
| 8 | Talent.com* | talent.com | 392,834 | |
| 9 | Grad Connection* | gradconnection.com | 293,364 | |
| 10 | ApplyNow | applynow.net.au | 285,503 | |
| 11 | Simply Hired | simplyhired.com.au | 266,764 | |
| 12 | Adzuna* |  | adzuna.com.au | 250,775 |
| 13 | Jobs WA | jobs.wa.gov.au | 243,904 | |
| 14 | Career One |  | careerone.com.au | 200,187 |
| 15 | I Work For SA | iworkfor.sa.gov.au | 173,481 | |
| 16 | Jobs VIC | jobs.careers.vic.gov.au | 138,373 | |
| 17 | Job Search |  | Jobsearch.com.au | 106,234 |
| 18 | Backpacker Job Board |  | backpackerjobboard.com.au | 81,233 |
| 19 | Adecco | adecco.com.au | 72,338 | |
| 20 | Jobs NT | jobs.nt.gov.au | 67,174 | |
| 21 | NRM Jobs | nrmjobs.com.au | 58,209 | |
| 22 | CareerJet |  | careerjet.com.au | 16,197 |
| 23 | FlexCareers |  | flexcareers.com.au | 14,176 |
| 24 | ApplyDirect | applydirect.com.au | < 5,000 |
Archive
Here’s our archive of the best job sites throughout Australia for previous years. This includes our leaderboards for 2021and 2020. During these years we ranked the best job sites using Alexa Traffic Rank.
2021
The Best Job Websites in Australia 2021. Data collected in April 2021. Updated to include position change versus 2020 site rank.
| Rank | Logo | Company | Alexa Traffic Rank 2021 v 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Indeed* | 69 (⬆37) |
| 2 | | Seek | 1,078 (⬆499) |
| 3 |  | Jora* | 10,110 (⬇2,583) |
| 4 |  | JobActive | 13,952 (⬆22,970) |
| 5 | | Glassdoor | 18,036 (⬆3,778) |
| 6 |  | Recruit.net* | 34,870 (⬇15,876) |
| 7 |  | Jobserve* | 35,162 (⬆2,211) |
| 8 | | Career One | 54,489 (⬆32,820) |
| 9 | | Adzuna* | 54,527 (⬇770) |
| 10 |  | Student Edge* | 137,294 (⬇24,422) |
| 11 | | Backpacker Job Board | 509,565 (⬇301,704) |
| 12 | | CareerJet | 513,360 (⬇26,022) |
| 13 | | FlexCareers | 595,568 (⬇240,232) |
| 14 | | Job Search | 676,055 (⬇208,470) |
| 15 |  | ApplyDirect | 1,332,556 (⬇819,074) |
| 16 |  | Staff Australia | 2,024,131 (⬆844,068) |
| 17 |  | One Shift Jobs | 2,734,489 (⬇1,202,283) |
| 18 |  | Spot Jobs | 4,397,328 (⬆666,072) |
Alexa Traffic Ranking correct as of 12 April 2021
2020
The Best Job Sites in Australia for 2020 can be seen in the leaderboard table below. This is our archived table of data from February 2020.
| Rank | Logo | Company | Alexa Traffic Rank (Global) | Alexa Traffic Rank (Australia) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Indeed* | 106 | – |
| 2 | | Seek | 1,577 | 20 |
| 3 | | Jora* | 7,527 | 150 |
| 4 | | Recruit.net* | 18,994 | – |
| 5 | | Glassdoor | 21,814 | 245 |
| 6 | | JobActive | 36,922 | 512 |
| 7 | | Jobserve* | 37,373 | 1,142 |
| 8 | | Adzuna* | 53,757 | 751 |
| 9 | | Career One | 87,309 | 1,779 |
| 10 | | Student Edge* | 112,872 | 5,479 |
| 11 | | Backpacker Job Board | 207,861 | 6,422 |
| 12 | | FlexCareers | 355,336 | 7,075 |
| 13 | | Job Search | 467,585 | 9,149 |
| 14 | | CareerJet | 487,338 | 10,366 |
| 15 | | ApplyDirect | 513,482 | 22,502 |
| 16 | | One Shift Jobs | 1,532,206 | – |
| 17 | | Staff Australia | 2,868,199 | – |
| 18 | | Spot Jobs | 5,063,400 | – |
| 19 |  | EmployMe | 5,600,622 | – |
Alexa Traffic Ranking correct as of 20 February 2020
Note: Gumtree, Facebook, LinkedIn haven’t been included in this list. Although they feature job ads, they are not solely an employment website.
* These are international job websites. As such they have sub-sites targeting different countries, each on the same website domain. It could be argued that this may skew the league table of top employment sites in Australia, as traffic from other members based in other countries
