The find-jobs-anywhere site has now reached 100 million unique monthly visitors, including half of all U.S. job search traffic, and delivers more hires, it says, than CareerBuilder, Monster, and career-networking darling LinkedIn combined.

Take that, Facebook and Twitter.

“There’s a lot of focus on social … you can’t read a story about job seeking without reading about it,” said Indeed VP of product Chris Hyams when I chatted with him this afternoon. “We don’t discount that, but you have to start with the simplest thing: You have to have more jobs.”

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Last month on Indeed

Indeed has stayed laser-focused throughout its eight years, Hyams said, on three things: More jobs on the site, keeping the site as fast as possible, and focusing pretty much exclusively on providing the best possible job-seeking experience for job hunters.

That’s translated to about 16 million jobs being present on the site at any given time, three billion job searches just in the last month, and according to a recent study by SilkRoad of more than 150,000 hires, more people finding jobs through Indeed than any other career site or service. Not to mention the number one mobile app for Android, iPhone, and iPad for job seekers, and that one new account is created on Indeed every single second.

“We’ve been working incredibly hard to get jobs the minute they are posted in every country,” Hyams said. “Our key metric is people getting jobs.”

I see a ton on new startups who are focusing on hiring and recruiting. KarmaHire, Zao, Path.io, GetHired, Quixey, Wowzer, enRecruit, VisualCV, Spark Hire, and InnovateCV are just a few of them. And each of them wants to reap the rich rewards of helping companies and people connect in careers.

But it seems like they’ve got a long, long way to go to beat the big kahuna of hiring in the U.S. and beyond.

The result, according to Hyams?

“If you’re an employer and you want to reach job seekers, Indeed.com is where to go.”

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Realistically, the company will need a lot of its own good karma to win in this super-competitive startup niche. But CEO James Clift is optimistic:

“We’ve been able to convert about three times better than the industry average,” Clift says. “And we’re just getting started.”

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KarmaHire CEO James Clift

KarmaHire’s flipping the funnel, in a sense, on recruiting. While most job ads these days are about what companies want from people, Clift is switching that to what people want from companies. A huge shift the company has uncovered, he says, is that huge numbers of people are not looking or that starter job or the subsistence salary. Instead, they’re looking for a great working environment and hard problems to solve.

Seventy-five percent of job ad viewers, the company says, are already employed.

They don’t just want a job; they want an awesome job. So KarmaHire, which just graduated this week from Vancouver-based accelerator GrowLab, built a platform to make that happen.

“We transform job postings into job advertisements,” he said.

That means they look like elegant, designed — not like Craigslist or Monster.com listings:

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KarmaHire’s job “ads”

The company has seen success and is helping companies find talent faster.

But it has a ton of competition in the recruiting space. Zao is gamifying recruiting. Path.to is following the eHarmony match-made-in-heaven model. GetHired is doing daily deals for jobs. Quixey wants you to solve puzzles to get recruited. And any number of new video-based interviewing companies like Wowzer, enRecruit, VisualCV, Spark Hire, and InnovateCV want to make video the center point of the hiring experience.

All of which means that recruiting is a vastly competitive marketplace.

Clift, however, thinks KarmaHire has what it takes, saying the company is already successful and has a lot of room to grow.

KarmaHire is based in Vancouver and is in the process of raising a $250,000 seed round, some of which is already committed. The service is in a private beta test right now and will launch into public beta next week.