Bayt.com Exceeds 8 Million Users

Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, announced today that it surpassed a staggering eight million members.

That means that eight million people world widehave discovered a whole new experience in enhancing their careers during the past 12 years.

Bayt.com enables members to build an online professional brand,apply to jobs; read career literature; communicate with employers and other professionals; stay on top of market research; and plan their career projectiles. Featuring a content-rich approach that reflects on the needs of the Middle Eastern job market, culture, and trends,this milestone reinforces Bayt.com’s position as a powerful platform that provides people – from all ages and educational backgrounds – with the tools and knowledge to pursue the career of their dreams.

The explosive popularity of Bayt.comin the Middle East over the past 12 years prompted the opening of 12 different offices around the region. This provides the company a market base to better serve both professionals and employers, and cement its status as a Middle Eastern job site created by the region, for the region. Employers tapping into Bayt.com’s rich professional community today to fulfill recruitment needs at all career levels and across all industries and job roles range from small and medium corporations and family offices to regional conglomerates, multinational corporations, educational institutions and governments. On an average day over 11,000 jobs are posted on Bayt.com and employers across the recruitment spectrum can avail of the industry’s leading technologies to source, screen, shortlist and rank applicants quickly, easily and effectively.

"We are thrilled to reach 8 million members. We strive to continue to be a part of the lives and successes of the region's professional community," said Rabea Ataya, CEO, Bayt. "Every year we help hundreds of thousands of people find better jobs and in doing so build better lives. With the innovations lined up for the coming year, we are excited that we will have an even greater impact on our community."

This milestone comes three months after the site underwent a major revamp which saw an enhancement of existing functions, as well as myriad added features such as a mobile application, a reworked, industry-leading CV builder; and powerful new job-search tracking and CV-analysis tools. The new people-driven format garnered great success, and was built around the company’s core values of leadership, empowerment, efficiency, flexibility & communication. Bayt.com today beyond its core recruitment platform which has pioneered the online recruitment industry in the region also has a number of complementary platforms directly related to enhancing the lives and livelihoods of the region’s professional communities. These include the Salaries platform which is the region’s most comprehensive online salary benchmarking tool as well as the Virtual Fairs platform where vibrant online job and education fairs are held around the year and the Branded Career Channels platform which empowers corporations and institutions around the region to tap into Bayt.com’s industry-leading technology to power their own career channels and further facilitate recruitment.