lxml xpath not finding anchor text

Question

I have two xpaths and only one of them correctly pulls the job titles from the url below. Any idea why xpath1 (which I found using the 'inspect element/copy XPath' feature of Chrome) doesn't work, while xpath2 does?

import requests
from lxml import html

url = 'http://www.mynextmove.org/find/browse?c=54'

xpath1 = '//*[@id="content"]/table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/a/text()'
xpath2 = '//a[contains(@href, "profile")]/text()'

page = requests.get(url)
tree = html.fromstring(page.text)

jobs = tree.xpath(xpath2)
print 'jobs:', jobs

xpath1 returns [], the empty list.

xpath2 returns ['Anthropologists', 'Archeologists', ...]

Answer 1

There is no tbody it looks like change it to:

`xpath1 = '//*[@id="content"]/table[1]/tr/td[1]/a/text()'`

and try it.

This is what I get when I do that:

In [31]: tree.xpath(xpath1)
Out[31]:
['Anthropologists',
 'Archeologists',
 'Architects',
 'Architectural Drafters',
 'Biochemists & Biophysicists',
 'Civil Drafters',
 'Civil Engineers',
 'Environmental Engineering Technicians',
 'Environmental Engineers',
 'Geodetic Surveyors',
 'Lawyers',
 'Legal Secretaries',
 'Mapping Technicians',
 'Marine Architects',
 'Marine Engineers',
 'Paralegals & Legal Assistants',
 'Survey Researchers',
 'Surveying Technicians',
 'Surveyors',
 'Tax Preparers',
 'Transportation Engineers',
 'Veterinarians',
 'Veterinary Assistants & Laboratory Animal Caretakers',
 'Veterinary Technologists & Technicians',
 'Water/Wastewater Engineers']