Just for fun and to see how unemployable I am:
My CV 'hit-rate' on careers is currently a glorious 0.01484% (yea, uh, Search Hits on Your CV / Global Searches, just in case you have not finished your morning cup-a-joe.)
Within my hits my CV 'view-rate' is 0.0667%. (Employer Views of Your CV / Search Hits on Your CV)
So if my skill set not in demand (at least with the beta employers)? Or my locations to in-the-middle-of-nowhere?
What's your hit-rate?
I don't think any of the beta testers were in Singapore, and the site has only been open to non-beta testers for a couple of days, so it's probably a function of location in your case. I hope that as we hit critical mass we'll start to attract employers all over the world.
Mines a big fat...
:) But then again I'm in Australia (for better or for worse). But considering the jobs on SO and Joels are predominantly North American, this isn't that surprising. I only signed up because it was $30. If it was the normal price and I was a user outside the US, I don't think you could justify the cost.
Careers, I suspect, is going to hit its stride in 3-5 years as good programmers who use SO move into management. Until then it's likely to be a bit slow and limited to the high-tech, early adopter areas - unless Joel and Jeff do a bang-up job of advertising the service to existing managers. It's going to be a hard sell though, given that with many recruitment services you don't pay unless you hire. Here you pay regardless of hire, and despite the money back guarantee that's a bump in the road.
I've got 11 hits, 2 employer views of my CV with global searches at 1015, so I'm near 1% of global searches, and 2.4% of the employers have seen my CV (assuming it wasn't the same one looking at it twice). Which is 18% view rate (views/hits).
But I'm in Michigan, listed as "will relocate" and "telecommute" so I doubt anyone local is hitting me, especially given the current economy in this region.
But the economy and industry will certainly change over the next few years, even in Australia and other places where ponies and waffles are underappreciated. Great employee/employer matches will come through this system, no doubt.
Or, in other words, the false positives will be much lower. If you get contacted then it's a better match than through many (most?) other methods. You won't get contacted much, but when you do it's a good contact.
As of this morning:
1027 Global Searches
84 Search Hits on Your CV
8 Employer Views of Your CV
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8.17% Search Hits (Search Hit / Global Searches)
9.52% Employer View (Search Hit / Employer View)
3 Search Hits on Your CV :(
Hit-rate (Search Hits / Global Searches) = 4.39%
View-rate (Employer Views / Search Hits) = 8.51%
Actually kind of makes me feel better about my rates after calculating the percentages!
I'm in pretty much the same boat as cletus (and country (without the pretty much)). I do have 1 Search hit however, but I have Willing to Relocate checked.
105 Global Employers (beta)
1077 Global Searches
1 Search Hits on Your CV
7 Public Views of Your CV
0 Employer Views of Your CV
0 Email Inquiries to You from Employers
0 Email Responses from You to Employers
108 Global Employers (beta)
1106 Global Searches
17 Search Hits on Your CV
4 Public Views of Your CV
1 Employer Views of Your CV
0 Email Inquiries to You from Employers
0 Email Responses from You to Employers
My guess is the Public Views are either mine or from my SO profile.
My stats are
109 Global Employers (beta)
1106 Global Searches
63 Search Hits on Your CV
13 Public Views of Your CV
10 Employer Views of Your CV
2 Email Inquiries to You from Employers
2 Email Responses from You to Employers
