www.simplyhired.cn Expands Simply Hired's Presence in Asia and Showcases 500,000 Available Local Jobs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Simply Hired, the largest job search engine, today announced a new localized destination website for China, www.simplyhired.cn. With more than 500,000 available local job postings at launch, Simply Hired's expansion to China will help job seekers in the world's third largest economy to find work that they love. The new job search engine broadens Simply Hired's presence in Asia and joins localized websites in 16 other countries across five continents and in nine languages.

Without requiring membership, the new site will provide local job seekers a simple online job search experience in their native language. Simply Hired immediately shows returning users which new listings have been added since their last visit and offers an advanced search option to return job listings that match specific criteria. More than five million jobs are available worldwide from the leading job boards, content websites, newspapers and company career pages. Through its international partnership with LinkedIn, www.simplyhired.cn will also allow job seekers to discover the connections they have within companies, providing them the inside track on the hiring process.

"As we work to provide localized, language-specific job search opportunities for every major country in world, Simply Hired is excited to further expand our job search services in Asia with the launch of our site in China," said Sachin Shah, director of international, Simply Hired. "Hiring managers are starting to find it difficult to fill open positions in China because the demand for workers rose more than 14 percent in the third quarter from 2008; Simply Hired is confident that www.simplyhired.cn comes at a good time. Our goal is to provide our worldwide users with free, valuable tools and resources that benefit job seekers and employers, alike."

For recruiters and direct employers, Simply Hired offers the ability to add their jobs into these international sites through a job feed. They can also advertise their employment brand via premium display ads that appear on relevant search result pages. To express interest in including your jobs, visit any Simply Hired international site and click the "Add Jobs" link at the bottom of the page. For more information about advertising with display ads on Simply Hired, please contact displayads@simplyhired.com.

For the publisher community such as job boards, bloggers and content sites, Simply Hired provides additional, relevant job listings to supplement existing content. By including job listings on their sites, publishers can improve their visitor engagement and increase traffic. Simply Hired currently supplements LinkedIn's international job board with millions of job listings from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Mexico, Switzerland, China and Brazil. For more information about incorporating Simply Hired international job search content on your site, please contact partners@simplyhired.com.

About Simply Hired

With more than five million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com) is the world's largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network. The company powers jobs on over 5,000 network partner sites such as LinkedIn, Plaxo, CNNMoney, BusinessWeek and The Washington Post. It operates global sites in 17 countries and nine languages including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland and China. Simply Hired was the fastest growing job site in 2008 according to both ComScore and Nielsen Media. Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the "50 Coolest Websites" by Time magazine, a "Top 100 Website" by PC Magazine and the "Best of the Web" by BusinessWeek. Simply Hired has raised $22.3 million in funding from IDG Ventures SF, News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media, Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures and individual investors. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California, USA.

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