The latest job seeker tally from Bayt.com revealed that61% of the online labor force in the UAE have an account on Bayt.com. At the regional level,43% of the online labor force have an account on Bayt.com.
Online job sites play a leading role for job hunters in the Middle East. Although the job market can be a challenging one, professionals of all levels and skills can find exceptional opportunities if they know where to upload their CVs and apply.
A shining example of one of the region’s success stories, Bayt.com today has28,500,000 CVs and more than40,000 employers in its database. As such, it is becoming a ubiquitous job seeking and career planning tool across the Middle East.
In the GCC alone,41% of the online labor force are on Bayt.com. The highest prevalence of online labor force with a Bayt.com account in the GCC is in the UAE (61%), followed by Qatar (42%), Oman (36%), KSA (35%), Bahrain (28%) and Kuwait (27%).
Other regional markets also have a very large proportion of online labor force with Bayt.com accounts. These markets include Jordan, in which three quarters (75%) of the online labor force are registered on Bayt.com.44% of Egypt’s online labor force are registered on Bayt.com and31% of Lebanon’s online labor force are on Bayt.com. The job site’s trilingual platform (English, Arabic, French) as well as its complete range of end-to-end employment solutions and career planning tools certainly contribute to its popularity.
“Job seekers on Bayt.com come with many different career levels, specialties, and target jobs,” said Suhail Masri, Vice President of Employer Solutions, Bayt.com. “Among those who have specified their career level on their Bayt.com CV, one out of three job seekers have more than10 years of experience. The Bayt.com job seeker database includes hundreds of thousands of niche job roles that are as diverse as Oracle and Python Developers, Financial Analysts, Designers, Instrumentation Engineers, Product Managers, and Legal and Compliance Advisors.”
The Job site has achieved tremendous success in17 years. Since its launch in2000, Bayt.com has connected millions of job seekers and employers to help them build their careers. It has also developed unparalleled virtual fairs, applicant tracking, and career portal technologies that are being utilized and awarded at the global scale.
Today, Bayt.com is the largest employment marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa and offers its registered job seekers free and easy access to over10,000 jobs on any given day.
Suhail adds: “As an organization, we have always been committed to helping people find their ultimate career opportunities. In order to truly help, we don’t believe in sticking to the bare minimum. We work through innovation, we seek to improve, create, update, and reinvent so we can make technology that actually empowers others. When it comes to hiring, we strive to always provide the latest and most useful technologies and information on our online platform. When it comes to finding a job, we arm our job seekers with an array of tools and insights that smoothen their competitive journey. On any given moment, our350+ employees are actively searching, creating, and improving our offerings because they know it will have an impact on so many people. This is how we grew to a community of millions.”
In today’s economic climate, job candidates have to compete heavily and apply for numerous opportunities to find the ideal one. This is why Bayt.com has gone beyond the job listings and has created a CV search technology that boost the qualified candidates’ chances of being found directly by employers. Bayt.com has also become a reputable source for industry research, career planning information, and several other tools that are geared to support job seekers and employers at all stages.
Population and labor force figures were collected from the CIA Fact Book. Percentages for those registered on Bayt.com were calculated from Bayt.com’s database.