We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Philippines job search engine (www.recruitnet.ph)  The site has over 25,000 job listings from hundreds of companies in the Philippines.

With approximately 24,000,000 internet users and only a 24% penetration of the total population, the Philippines is one of the largest and fastest growing markets in Asia.

The Philippines also boasts a highly competent and globally mobile work force that will benefit from the Recruit.net network of global job search engines.

Recruitnet.ph is a result of continued requests from our users to launch our service in the Philippines. So please please keep the feedback coming in.

The team at Recruit.net wishes everyone a happy and healthy 2010 and great success in the year of the Tiger.

Recruit.net is starting the year on a new high. Some notable milestones during 2009 include:

• A 120% increase in job searches over the past year. Recruit.net now has over 5 million unique users and 25 million searches every month.

• Web sites in 12 countries and 4 languages

There is a lot more ahead for 2010 and we’d like to thank all our users for the continual support and great feedback and suggestion that keep coming in.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our New Zealand job search engine . The new service comes to market with over 30,000 job listings from hundreds of companies in New Zealand.

With a population of 4.2M and a low unemployment rate of just 3.5% the labor market is vibrant and keen to tap the international work force.

The New Zealand Government produces a skill shortage list.

Key areas of demand appear to be:

- Software Engineering
- Trades people
- Agriculture
- Healthcare workers

New Zealand is the latest addition to the Recruit.net international job network which currently encompasses Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore.

At a gala dinner in Hong Kong on Friday Red Herring Magazine announced that Recruit.net Ltd. has been officially selected a winner of the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia 2007 award.

This is an exclusive event honoring 100 cutting-edge private technology companies from across the Asia-Pacific region. The event brings together an elite roster of entrepreneurial and global venture investment firms to showcase excellence in innovation.

Distinguished speakers at Red Herring 100 Asia included Richard Li, Chairman of PCCW; John Chen, Chairman of Sybase and John Hummelstad, Asia Pacific Director of Microsoft Ventures.

“After a rigorous evaluation process, we’re very happy with winners we selected,” said Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. “There was a large pool to choose from and we’re impressed by the caliber of innovative talent bursting from Asia’s business and technology sector.”

Recruit.net would like to thank Red Herring for this prestigious award and are proud to be among the impressive roster of ground breaking companies that have won this award in the past.

More details here: http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/index.htm

We are please to announce the launch of our Malaysia job search engine malaysia.recruit.net.

Recruit.net is the most comprehensive search engine for jobs in Asia Pacific. We have more than 3M job listings from across 6 countries in the region and Malaysia is the perfect country for our further international expansion.

Internet world stats show that the number of internet users in Malaysia has grown from 3.7M in 2000 to over 13.5M in 2007. With a population of around 28M that’s around a 47% penetration.

You can search from thousands of jobs anywhere in Malaysia by city, keywords and company names.

Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Malaysia is the latest addition to our growing network of international job search engines, which currently comprises of:

Australia Jobs http://australia.recruit.net/

China Jobs http://china.recruit.net/

Hong Kong Jobs http://hongkong.recruit.net/

India Jobs http://india.recruit.net/

Japan Jobs http://japan.recruit.net/

Malaysia Jobs http://malaysia.recruit.net/

Singapore Jobs http://singapore.recruit.net/

Red Herring Magazine has announced that Recruit.net Ltd. has been short listed forerunners of the Red Herring 100 Asia 2007 awards.

“The 200 finalists we selected from across 16 countries and regions are all excellent contenders,” said Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. “They are exceptional companies who thrive on innovation and strongly define the important role of technology in Asia’s economy and throughout the world.”

The names of the 200 companies short-listed as finalist for the “Red Herring 100 Asia 2007″ can be found online at http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/index.html

Some recent coverage:

Dr. Andy Chun Associate professor at the City University of Hong Kong and author of the Web 2.0 blog for ZDNet Asia has written about us in his article Search for Jobs with Web 2.0 and also in his interview with Recruit.net’s Maneck Mohan.

Charles Knight author of Top 100 Alternative Search Engines has added Recruit.net to the April Update of the list.

Chad Sowash from DirectEmployers Association in the US recently reported on Recruit.net.

Duncan Reily from TechCrunch has written a recent article about Recruit.net.

ReadWriteWeb has selected Recruit.net as a “Top Web Apps in Hong Kong”.

Allen Stern Editor of US based Centernetworks has covered us in a recent article.

Thanks to everyone for their coverage and excellent endorsements.

We’re happy to be working with ZDNet Asia to power their new Asia jobs channel. We are supplementing their excellent editorial content with relevant job data from across the region.

They have also released a highly informative new special report entitled Asia’s IT Employment Trends 2007.

Here at Recruit.net we’re constantly working to refine our product offerings and to provide our users with as many tools as possible to enable smarter, more informed job search decisions.

With this in mind, we have partnered with Payscale.com to provide our users with a simple, one click solution to deliver indicative salary information for job listings which interest them.

How it works is that every time you search for a job, the summary search result page will have a “Research Salary” link next to each ad summary. Clicking on that link will prompt you with a region-specific annual salary bracket in local currency for that role or its closes approximation.

From there it only gets better; if you want an in depth salary analysis for the role you have your eye on, you click on the “Next” link within the information window and continue onto Payscale’s site to order it online. Up to date, detailed salary data can be put to very good use in situations such as:

- Wanting to negotiate a salary with a new employer, or reviewing your pay with your current company.

- Considering career or roles changes and wanting to know what the financial implication of making such a change is

- Wanting to know how much a potential romantic interest of yours makes (hey, the more information the better right?), etc.

Obviously, employers that visit us can also benefit of both the indicative salary information on the recruit.net site, or request a salary benchmark study to ensure your remuneration levels are on market.

The service has been released first in Australia and India; the rest of the recruit.net network countries will follow as Payscale finalizes the compilation of salary information for those geographies

We trust the salary info is of value to you; in any case, please let us know what you think of this service. We’re keen to get your feedback and comments.

Thanks for all the suggestions and comments that have been coming in.

One of the most requested features has been for a way to browse and filter jobs by company name.

This is now online. Please let us know what you think and keep the suggestion coming in.