Mihnati.com is emerging as the largest job portal in the Arab world with a slew of innovative features, says a report.

More than 50,000 job seekers and 5,000 employers — including 100 top corporate clients — have registered with the recruitment portal since its launch a few months ago.

The portal will be shortly launched in three other Gulf countries, where it will deploy its own sales personnel and set up offices, said Nesma Advanced Technology vice-president Ousama Najjar.

The portal is jointly owned by Riyadh-based Nesma and Hasibat, a Kuwait-based company.

Hasibat is a Kuwaiti closed shareholding company listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange since 1987 under the name Kuwait Computer Company with an initial capital of $18.75 million.

“This portal is an answer to the growing recruitment needs of thousands of regional and international companies,” said Najjar in remarks published in the Arab News.

Mihnati has its own offices and operational staff in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait.

The portal, he said, had emerged as an integrated one-stop-shop for companies and institutions with recruitment needs.

“In fact, Mihnati.com can help you like no other organisation can,” said Najjar, adding that the employers in the Gulf were becoming more and more interested in recruiting online.

“But, this still represents a small number compared to Europe, where 27 per cent of companies go online to advertise and recruit staff of their choice,” he said.

Naveed-ur-Rahman, another Nesma executive, said the portal offered access to career sites in all of the six Gulf countries.

“It offers five subscriptions options for employers to place job advertisements and search CVs at reasonable charges, while job seekers can register free of cost,” said Rahman, adding that Mihnati.com had emerged as an ambitious online recruitment project.