Jobboard Finder’s opinion
Summary: Created in 2000, eFinancialCareers is a DHi service based in London and the leading financial job portal. For a time, it belonged to FINS.com, which was created by Dow Jones in 2009, but FINS became a part of DHi in 2012 and now redirects to the eFinancialCareers specialist job board. If you visit the DHi website, it is more focused on showcasing Dice than eFinancialCareers unfortunately. And if you check out the “About us” section, “it’s actually about you” (cute, but uninformative). Unfortunately, there's no more “Editorial Team” content. According to SimilarWeb, 999 400 visits are recorded per month for the UK portal and that’s just one of 19 countries in which the job board has set up shop. On social media, there are over 195 000 followers on Facebook, 118 010 on Linkedin and a couple of thousand on Instagram.
Design: There are no particular “business” photos, but the website doesn’t need them to display its professionalism. The search engine (keywords and location) is the first thing you see on the page. The next thing is the articles (first news, then advice). The bottom half of the homepage focuses on the latest jobs,hiring companies and job sectors. When you access the job listing, you can use the filters (the location and radius, the sector, the position type, the employment type, the experience level and the salary range – numbers for each category are in brackets). In the list, the salary, location, contract hours, company and updates date are visible, including logos. The featured companies aren’t necessarily hiring, most of them are though.
The job board objective: With a focus on finance, eFinancialCareers provides its users with intuitive articles and relevant job offers.
Recruiter observations: In the recruiter section, there are additional articles. To actually post a job or to create an account, you need to contact the team or request a call back. You can see events and reviews from clients.
Jobseeker observations: It’s easy to create an account and upload a CV. Their resume parser makes it lets tedious to fill out the online form. You do have to complete what’s missing though and change your CV status to visible. You can also include a cover letter.
The job offers: The sectors with the most job offers are IT, accounting & finance and asset management, but many other sectors also have hundreds of job offers. The sector information is the same on all of the websites. There are currently over 3 400 vacancies on eFinancialCareers UK in the UK.
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Special features: The job offer views; the job offer applicants; the news and advice articles (quite interesting); CV visibility status; reviews from clients; student advice.
Verdict: Something about eFinancialCareers feels very impersonal but it is professional. That said, the articles are interesting and the job offers are clear, so it’s worth using if you are in the field of finance.
