After many years marketing the Middle East’s #1 jobsite Bayt.com and listening via every possible channel to what all our stakeholders have to say to us, about us and for us, it seems that there are certain popular myths concerning jobsites that like to self-propagate and tend to build a pseudo-culture around themselves. This may be due to the novelty of jobsites in the Middle East (Bayt.com is the regional pioneer yet it is only ten years old) and it may also be due to the fact that myths like to don feathered wings and traverse large distances in loud packs. In any case, in the spirit of the season of rebirth I would like to lay rest to some of the popular myths concerning jobsites - at the risk of disappointing some of our ardent followers who love a good reason to force us to raise the bar even faster.
As a pan-regional jobsite (we are not a recruitment agency) Bayt.com doesn’t call in and interview candidates or even screen our community of candidates over the phone. We simply provide the most innovative, pioneering and state-of-the-art online platform for top jobseekers and top employers (including very many leading global and regional recruitment companies and executive search firms) to meet and interact. Is that all? Actually no. We also spend a lot of time ensuring this community grows faster than any other online professional recruitment community so our employers and jobseekers have at any point in time more reach, choice and access to professional talent and jobs respectively, than any other community of employers and talent in the region.
Tell that to the wide-eyed and rosy-cheeked fresh graduates (14.3% of our community) or hard-working highly competitive mid-managers (38% of our community) or exemplary c-suite senior executive managers (5.3% of our community) all of whom find employment via Bayt.com successfully and many of them on a repeat basis! The reality is that Bayt.com caters to all career levels from entry level to senior executive and board and our 97% customer satisfaction rate for 2010 as audited by our independent Corporate Excellence Team is testimony to that. For actual employer testimonials from the region’s top companies simply visit Bayt.com’s employer pages.
Of course seeing is believing and if today you can’t find among the many thousands of vacancies advertised on our site a single job you may be interested in, that may induce our glass-half-empty fans to log off, turn on the TV and call it quits on their job hunt. Our first advice is – look again. Every day thousands of new positions are posted online representing every industry, career level and job role. Our second advice is – sometimes what you can’t see can and will help you. What does that mean? Thousand of vacancies are filled on bayt.com without advertising, simply by employers using the Search functionality to search our community of CV’s and identify relevant talent. This is especially true of our senior level executive positions. For this reason it is essential that your CV is uploaded on Bayt.com in top form and updated at all times.
With over 5 Million Jobseekers on Bayt.com today you may think you don’t stand a chance. Think again! What this really means is that we can provide top employers with more reach and quality and choice than any other jobsite across the region and hence they will advertise More jobs on Bayt.com and prefer our jobsite over other jobsites for their Search activity as well. So tell your friends to join today – the larger our jobseeker community the larger the pool of employers, jobs and opportunity you will have to avail of.
As I pen these words I remember the bright happy faces of professionals I met at business and social events I attended in just the past 3 months as they informed me that they or their friends or family members or neighbors had found their jobs through Bayt.com. The events I attended were not free – but our platform is. It remains 100% FREE for jobseekers and still the fastest, easiest and most effective way to find a job in the Middle East and North Africa. Myths aside, our CEO Rabea Ataya took us aside this week – each and every one of us – to remind us of our Vision, Mission and Values at Bayt.com and ensure we continue to heed them stringently as a firm. Open communications we were reminded feature very heavily amongst our core values and so we promise you more ‘’real’’ communication based on listening carefully to your concerns, wants and needs in the many months to come!
