Dow Jones has selected Recruit.net as their job distribution partner for their expansion into Asian markets. The new job solution will include online job distribution for FINS Asia and the Wall Street Journal across China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Singapore.

The Recruit.net job platform has over 4 million jobs across 13 countries and powers over 1 million job searches per day.

Dow Jones is our newest job distribution partner and will further enable our mission of providing high quality job seeker traffic to our advertisers.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Thailand job search engine. The site has over 30,000 job listings from hundreds of companies in Thailand.

Latest reports show 17.5M internet users in Thailand from a population of 66.5M. Thailand’s Major industries are: agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, textiles and handicrafts.

Teaching Engilish as a foreign language is a major career area for foreign nationals and is especially popular is resort areas such as Phuket, Krabi, Koh Samui

Thailand’s Board of Investment identifies six industry sectors that are key to the growth of Thailand’s economy: agriculture and agro-industry, alternative energy, automotive, electronics and ICT, fashion, and value-added services including entertainment, healthcare and tourism.

Recruit.net Thailand is a result of continued requests from our users to launch our job search service in Thailand.

Please keep the feedback coming in.

We are happy to announce that we have released version 2.0 of our popular job index tool which now fully supports all mobile devices and works great with the Ipad and other touch screen devices. We have also added greater integration with social media, so you can now easily plot and share interesting job trends with facebook, twitter, share graphs on your own blog or web site.

The Recruit.net job index is a simple way to plot and view job trends across multiple industries and locations. The job index is based on historical data from thousands of online job sources and is updated on a regular basis.

Try it out, the possibilities are endless and it’s a very valuable tool for job seekers and market watchers.

Some interesting trends:

• Nurse shortage in Australia?
• Surge in demand for investment banking skills in China
• Job trends for the telecom sector in India
• Demand for software engineers in Japan declining as companies move their development centers to lower cost centers like Singapore

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.