Singapore – SEEK has announced its successful merging with Jobstreet and Jobsdb, allowing the parent company of both online career platforms to serve as a single platform, with the goal of offering an enhanced job and talent seeking experience.
Powered by SEEK’s technology, the unified platform brings new AI-powered advancements to the Jobstreet and Jobsdb platforms in Asia, aimed at bringing together talents and employers across the APAC region to connect more of the right people with the right work.
For employers, the new platform deploys AI models to assess talent suitability and provide highly personalised recommendations by processing data from various sources, including resumes, job ad descriptions and the employer’s past behaviours to make the hiring process faster and more efficient.
To enhance the job-hunting process for talent, the platform now easily matches them to AI-recommended jobs they are most qualified for based on their experience and skills. With a larger dataset acquired across APAC, SEEK’s AI algorithms can provide even more precise and relevant matches between employers and talent.
In moving to a unified marketplace platform, SEEK can also now scale its use of data-driven insight, product testing and innovation at pace.
Additionally, SEEK has also introduced a new natural language search feature on its Jobstreet platform which will be rolled out for 2024. This innovation allows talent to submit job queries using simple phrases or complete sentences on the platform, so they do not need to rely solely on keyword phrases. Powered by a large language model (LLM), the feature enables a search experience that is more organic and appealing to jobseekers.
Talking about the integration, Peter Bithos, chief executive officer for Asia at SEEK, said, “At SEEK, everything we do revolves around our customers. One unified platform means we can now offer our product to millions of people across Asia in an entirely new way, so that our customers can find jobs and talent more easily. This puts us in a stronger position, more than ever before, to realise our ambition of helping 500 million people develop their careers with five million companies in the region.”
Meanwhile, Dannah Majarocon, managing director for Philippines at Jobstreet by SEEK, commented, “We are excited to facilitate more tailored job matches between employers and talent, powered by SEEK’s AI technology to continue providing jobs to every Filipino. The new Jobstreet by SEEK platform can now seamlessly match them based on specific skills, job roles, and career aspirations is crucial in the Philippines’ highly dynamic and evolving employment landscape.”
SEEK’s unification of its employment marketplaces comes 10 years after it acquired Jobstreet and Jobsdb, following three years of development and an estimated AUD$180 million investment.