A new bilateral collaboration kicks off...
JobStreet.com and Kwong Wah Yit Poh have both concluded an arrangement to combine the influence and reach of both Internet and the print media to bring even more jobs to job seekers in Malaysia.

This is how it works: JobStreet.com gets to publish the latest hot jobs in Kwong Wah Yit Poh on a weekly basis while the newspaper's job postings will also get some online presence on JobStreet.com. This translates to job seekers getting access to even more job postings.



This cooperation between Malaysia's top online job recruitment website and Malaysia's oldest Chinese language newspaper is set to help the government tackle the unemployment issue.

The job situation so far... Mark Chang, CEO of JobStreet.com, disclosed that total job advertisements had shrunk by about 40 percent in the northern states when comparing the first quarter of 2009 to the same quarter last year. Nevertheless, there were still over 1,000 job advertisements in Penang alone and this was now steadily increasing.

Even as the manufacturing and electronics industries were retrenching, these two industries were still continuing to provide 68 percent of all employment opportunities in the northern states. As it stands, Penang's unemployment rate is now between 4.7 percent and five percent. In fact, the average number of applications for jobs in JobStreet.com has increased by 30 percent, signaling the need for even more jobs.

The future...
By exposing jobs available online to those with limited Internet access and putting vacancies from print media online, we hope the exposure will bring gainful employment to those without jobs.

Partnerships with key media will not end here as we strive to give our job seekers better exposure to jobs available on the market. We thank you for your support as we continue to find ways and means to help those who need it most.

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