JobsDB Philippines

JobsDB Philippines (www.jobsdb.com.ph) is the Philippine branch of the leading career portal in Asia. Philippine Business has acknowledged it as one of the most widely-used jobsites in the Philippines > which is struggling with an 8 percent unemployment rate and at the same time anticipates 500,000 new graduates into the workforce every year.

The other JobsDB offices can be found in 11 other countries: namely Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and USA.

What sets apart the JobsDB.com network from other job sites is its continual innovation of technology, especially the Internet, to provide job opportunities for jobseekers and qualified candidates for employers. Microsoft has acknowledged that JobsDB maintains is industry leadership by >constant enhancement and innovative product development.

JobsDB Philippines, Inc. was established in July 1999 with a Manila-based office that had a staff of 20. It introduced the database management of resumes and real-time online job application at a time when Filipino jobseekers were reliant on print job advertisements and bulletin-board type announcements.

Since then, JobsDB Philippines, Inc. has gone beyond providing employers job posting ads but has evolved into a holistic human resources solution provider from placement, executive search, to staffing, boosted by cutting-edge internet technologies. Over the years, the company has established a growing database of over one million jobseeker members and more than 10,000 corporate clients. Online Employment Tips has noted thatthe regional network is the most comprehensive with 8 million members and 100,000 clients >.

JobsDB Philippines currently has a staff of 120 and has established another office in Cebu, another major city in the Philippines in its Visayas area.

In an interview with Sun Star Cebu >, the city’s leading newspaper, JobsDB Phils, Inc. general manager Jayjay Viray says that the decision was finalized after holding two job fairs in Cebu. She explains that Cebu’s “overwhelming and vibrant atmosphere” was another factor that weighed in.

The first job fair that JobsDB held outside Manila was in Ilocos Norte in 2004. Since that time, the career portal has been holding an average of four job fairs a month, partnering with private companies, industry associations, universities and colleges, and even churches and parishes.

In 2006, JobsDB Philippines organized the very first paperless job fair in the country >, the Career and Education 2006 with Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the Special Guest of Honor >. The report by the Philippine Information Agency of CEF.

2006 cited the accounts of several jobseekers who found it easier using the online system to look for work in the 70,000 jobs posted by the 100 participating companies. .

On August 2006, JobsDB Philippines launched the first multimedia service portal in the country, 88DB.com > which, to date, has managed to create a community of over 70,000 freelancers and service providers and still growing. If JobsDB seeks to provide jobseekers access to work, 88DB.com is designed to assist entrepreneurs and freelancers look for projects and customers.

On May 2008, the Vice President of the Philippines, the Honorable Noli de Castro, was the Special Guest of Honor in the opening of the Career and Entrepreneurship Fair 2008 >which remains to be the biggest job fair of 2008. Cebu experienced its own CEF a couple of months later.

In 2007, JobsDB Philippines introduced the newest breakthrough in streamlining the recruitment process through the use of the JobsDB Career Card during the eJob Expo 2007 in cooperation with the largest organization of HR Professionals in the country, the People Management Association of the Philippines. A JobsDB member can use the Career Card to apply sans paper resume in JobsDB-organized job fairs.

For its corporate clients, JobsDB organizes business fora and conferences that have industry speakers such as economists speak on the crucial issues of the day. The CEO Forum 2007, entitled "International Trade" >, provided vital information on trade laws to over 100 top decision makers and industry movers of the country.

On February 2008, JobsDB Philippines staged another CEO Forum entitled “Producing Power People.” The forum aimed to answer the critical concerns of HR professionals such as talent acquisition and retention. These issues were also tackled on a business forum of JobsDB Philippines, entitled “Winning the War for Talents” which was held June 2008 in Cebu City