Job search in India will never be the same again

Bangalore, November 22, 2006: In a move that signals the maturity and tremendous traction of the Indian job market, Recruit.net, Asia’s leading job search engine today announced that it is launching Recruit.net India, an India-specific job search engine. Here, after enjoying much success in the China, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore markets, the job search engine offering of Recruit..Net sifts through millions of jobs from a variety of sources to get the most accurate matches for the query posted by the seeker. Recruit.Net will enter India through its own wholly-owned subsidiary and will invest directly in setting up offices in India. Currently over 2 million jobs across Asia is listed in Recruit.Net encompassing most of the hot Asian job markets of which 2 lakhs of jobs are from India.

“With the explosion in jobs and job portals, India is in dire need of consolidation to enable the job seeker to get to his dream job in one click. Currently he has to wade through multiple portals or destinations. The consolidation offers a powerful benefit for employers as the probability of the right candidate looking at their requirements is higher. We are truly excited by the Indian market which is witnessing unprecedented robustness on the job market front and look forward to building on the initial overwhelming response to our trial run here,” said Maneck Mohan, Founder, Recruit.net Ltd.

Recruit.net India has been well received in India within a short span of one month by the jobseekers with the largest collection of jobs with around 200,000 jobs listed. The jobseekers include those interested in positions with top companies in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, in addition to the local Indian market.

Recruit.net has partnered with U.S-based Direct Employees Association which comprise of over 200 leading US Companies including IBM, Lockheed Martin & Xerox and is looking forward to promote this to Indian job seekers looking for overseas opportunities with major MNCs. Recruit.net also partners with CSDN, the largest Chinese Speaking IT Professional community in China and see many synergies with India’s IT work force.

Recruit.net has three defined revenue/business channels :
– AdWorks™ a keyword based advertising system which displays contextually relevant ads on the search results page. Ads can be matched to keywords and locations and can be targeted towards individuals in specific professions, with specific skills or from specific locations. A typical advertiser on
AdWorks™ is a business looking to attract targeted traffic to their web site.
- Sponsored Job is a way for employers to guarantee maximum exposure for their job listings. Sponsored jobs are displayed with their company logo and given a premium position on the search results page, just above & below the natural search results.
- Resume search is a paid service which allows employers to search our database for potential candidates.


About Recruit.net:
A venture of Hong-Kong based Recruit.Net Ltd., Recruit.net www.recruit.net is a tri-lingual (English, Chinese & Japanese) vertical job search engine focused on Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Singapore and now India. The search engine indexes millions of job listings around Asia from multiple sources including job recruitment sites, newspapers, companies and executive search firms and enables job seekers to instantly search multiple web sites via one simple search free of charge. Recruit.net provides a range of features to its users including powerful search functionality, the ability to upload resumes and to receive job alerts via email or RSS feed.

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