Alexa: JobStreet.com is the No.1 Job Site in the Philippines

According to Alexa.com, JobStreet.com is the only job portal in the top 100 most popular web sites in the Philippines, making it the leading job site in the country in terms of popularity. Currently ranked 33rd among the country’s top web sites, it is joined by social networking sites like Friendster, Multiply and Facebook, search engines Yahoo and Google, e-commerce sites Ebay.ph and Amazon.com, online media outlets Inquirer.net, GMANewsTV and PhilStar.com, as well as gaming sites LevelUpGames and E-games. Information sites such as Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database as well as image and video publishing sites like Photobucket and YouTube also continue to be popular among Filipinos. Filipinos mainly visit web sites to be entertained or to socialize, but when they look for jobs, their online destination is JobStreet.com.

A similar trend is reflected by the increase of JobStreet.com’s registered user base and website hits. “We started 2007 with 1 Million registered users.” shares Ritchie Ramos, JobStreet.com’s Marketing Manager. “We ended the year with over 1.4 Million registered users and 12 Million average monthly page views. This clearly shows that more and more Filipinos are turning to the Internet for their job search.”

According to Ramos, JobStreet.com’s popularity can be credited to the quantity and quality of jobs that it features. Job postings on the site has numbered to over 12,000 and continues to grow. Featured employers include top companies such as Microsoft, Shell and Coca Cola, as well as Business Process Outsourcing Companies (BPO) such as Convergys, Accenture, Teletech and Telus.

JobStreet.com continues to build on its successes by introducing new services to its registered jobseekers. In August last year, it launched Career Blast, the first speed-hiring event patterned after speed-dating services. The event provided participating employers and jobseekers an opportunity to quickly find great potential matches. In November, it launched BPO Avenue, a comprehensive online career resource for jobseekers aiming to join the BPO industry.

Alexa.com is a website that provides information on the web traffic of other websites by collecting information from Internet users who installed the Alexa Toolbar. It computes the sites’ number of web users and page views over time to generate rankings.

Posted by blogadmin on Monday, 21 January 2008 at http://blog.jobstreet.com/