This quarter marks Bayt.com’s 14th anniversary. 14 years of helping the region match jobs with candidates and ensure the recruitment process is as facile, friendly and far-reaching as can be. Together we have succeeded in enabling millions of professionals across the Middle East, North Africa and beyond to connect with top employers and facilitated pan-regional employment in a way that was previously impossible.
To keep you up-to-date with some of the advances Bayt.com has once again made this year, we will share with you in just a few words some of the year’s top highlights and some of the reasons we are more uniquely positioned than ever before as the Middle East’s leading job site and the largest marketplace of talent and jobs in the region.
All in all, 2014 was a year of even more relevant jobs and job seekers than any other medium, more awards and award nominations, more phenomenally successful events across the region, continued success of our hallmark University Roadshow and other CSR activities, and more investment in our industry-leading tools, content and technologies.
We did things that truly make us proud
This year, we celebrated an important milestone at Bayt.com: our Bayt.com community crossed the
18 million registered professionals (over 3,400,000 active jobseeker registrations in 2014 alone) from across the Middle East and North Africa and beyond. 18 million unique; 18 million respected; 18 million special; 18 million strong. 18 million we are dedicated, and committed to, one by individual one.
Does size matter? Of course it does. More registrations mean more choice of active top talent for employers, which in turn means
more choice of current top jobs for job seekers. Top employers from all industries know they can trust our recruitment platform with their recruitment activities because they know our technologies are always state-of-the-art and our talent pool of global professionals is the region’s leading talent pool.
Top talent on Bayt.com enjoy today their pick of over
11,000 daily advertised jobs which they can apply to for free, and a similar universe of jobs which is never advertised but which they can access simply by having a
complete searchable CV on Bayt.com or a compelling
Bayt.com public profile.
In 2014, over 3,700,000 professionals have chosen to go public with their public profiles on Bayt.com. The implications of this are huge for professionals wishing to market their personal brands in the best way possible to peers, potential employers, potential clients and others.
Bayt.com was also an early adopter of using social media to directly interact with our community in new and fun ways. We've grown our online community so that it can serve as a resource to professionals and employers alike. On Facebook, we have more than
900,000 people staying up-to-date about what’s going on in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) job market; another
86,800 people have chosen to follow our news and updates on Twitter. In fact, these numbers are substantially growing as social media has become another integral aspect of our community outreach strategy.
We won some prestigious awards
Awards and accolades Bayt.com won in 2014 include the
Great Place to Work Award for Fourth Consecutive Year and a listing in the
World Economic Forum list of Top 28 Global Growth Companies.
We grew as a team
We take great pride in what we’ve built at Bayt.com: great team, great people, great clients, great stories, and tremendous growth. Since January, 143 new joiners have joined our Bayt.com. We’ve added amazing teammates in every department of our company from accounts to IT and all the way up to our senior executive team. All these people have been key in helping us help you better your professional life.
And we’re not done growing.
As we enter our 15th year in business,
our talented team continues to expand as we accomplish our mission of empowering people with the tools and knowledge to build their lifestyles of choice.
Because of our size and the efficiencies and the wealth of market insights and intelligence this has afforded us, we have been able to cater our platform and services to the region’s very unique preferences and needs, whether that means introducing
Elite and Premium accounts for professionals who want to accelerate their job opportunities and gain premium insights, or offering a special
knowledge-sharing channel between academics and professionals in the MENA region, or providing a way to apply for environmental and green-economy jobs by launching the
first-ever green jobsite in the MENA region. We also continued to expand and augment our Specialties platform which has transported bayt.com from the traditional jobsite realm to a more dynamic social recruitment context whereby today bayt.com professionals are empowered to visit the site daily to connect, communicate, create content and approach the career enhancement and planning process in a holistic comprehensive manner backed by the experiences and insights and support of a vast community of regional professionals.
As for employers, we have made it easier and easier over the years for the most effective recruitment matches to happen on
our dedicated career website, and today we are the platform of choice for a vast spectrum of loyal employers who regard us as a natural extension of their daily lives. This year, employers were introduced to
premium company profiles and a brand-new applicant ranking system. Through the new
applicant ranking system, Bayt.com has essentially streamlined the process of job seekers and employers finding each other in such a way that a once cumbersome process of sifting through volumes of jobseeker applications online has become instantaneous, benefiting candidates and employers alike. You can read the
testimonials of our varied stakeholders online and add your own to the glowing accolades.
For our dedicated community what this means is that Bayt.com remains the fastest, easiest and most effective way for top talent to find top jobs and for top employers to find top talent in the MENA region today. An increasingly rapidly growing community of talented professionals at all career levels from fresh graduate to seasoned senior executive and a dynamic dedicated employer community that spans everyone from regional governmental institutions to blue chip multinationals across the industry spectrum as well as large regional corporations, local conglomerates and family offices of all sizes, continue to rely and depend on us for the most effective and streamlined meeting of minds and needs and recruitment objectives possible through the web today.
We attended some high-profile events
In 2014, we were part of over
50 events across the Middle East and North Africa region as speakers, strategic career partners, career consultants, and more. From the
Marketing Kingdom Middle East in Doha and
Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, to
Arabnet ME in Riyadh and the
Digital Media Forum in Cairo, Bayt.com made sure to maintain a physical presence and active participation in leading industry and HR events year-round across the region. It was great meeting you all and we look forward to meeting many more people in the year to come!
We published some really cool research
At Bayt.com, we believe that research leads to an expansion of knowledge and the ability to make better-informed decisions. We therefore make sure to conduct industry research on a regular basis, in line with our mission to empower people with the tools and information to build their lifestyle of choice. Indeed, being informed is very important to stay up-to-date with trends that affect both employers and job seekers in the region. In 2014, we revealed the
top industries and
top salaries in the region. We also studied the aspirations of
millennials and
fresh graduates. We uncovered
job market trends and
consumer confidence levels, in addition to
online and mobile usage trends in the Arab World,
and more.
We expanded the Bayt.com Blog
Blogging is a great outlet for us to tell our story and to showcase yours. We have dedicated writers, but also guest authors and contributors who share stories about their careers and personal experiences. Our blog features real-life issues, career advice, and market insights. But it also features interviews with
top employers in the region, a
day in the life of some of the most accomplished professionals,
thought leadership pieces, and
guest blogs.
We helped university students, alumni and job seekers boost their career
We love meeting with students, young professionals and fresh grads, and make sure to meet with them whenever we have the chance. Some of the career fairs we took part in this year include
Najah 2014 in Abu Dhabi, Careers UAE 2014 in Dubai,
Tawdheef 2014, Abu Dhabi, and the Tamkeen Job Fair in Amman. We also powered some great workshops and career days both dynamically online through webinars and our Virtual Fairs platform as well as via our team’s physical presence around the region.
Our future aspirations?
Exactly what you have come to expect of Bayt.com: continued efforts in providing you with the fastest, easiest and most effective method to match top jobs with top candidates in the region, and continued investment in maintaining
Bayt.com as your online destination of choice for all things ‘career’.
