Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, announced today that it surpassed eight million members over the past 12 years.

Bayt.com enables members to build an online professional brand, apply to jobs; read career literature; communicate with employers and other professionals; stay on top of market research; and plan their career projectiles.

The popularity of Bayt.com in the Middle East prompted the opening of 12 different offices around the region, the statement said.

This provides the company a market base to better serve both professionals and employers, and cement its status as a Middle Eastern job site created by the region, for the region.

Employers tapping into Bayt.com’s rich professional community today to fulfil recruitment needs at all career levels and across all industries and job roles range from small and medium corporations and family offices to regional conglomerates, multinational corporations, educational institutions and governments.

On an average day over 11,000 jobs are posted on Bayt.com and employers across the recruitment spectrum can avail of the industry’s leading technologies to source, screen, shortlist and rank applicants quickly, easily and effectively.

"We are thrilled to reach 8 million members.  We strive to continue to be a part of the lives and successes of the region's professional community," said Rabea Ataya, CEO, Bayt.com.

"Every year we help hundreds of thousands of people find better jobs and in doing so build better lives.  With the innovations lined up for the coming year, we are excited that we will have an even greater impact on our community."

This milestone comes three months after the site underwent a major revamp which saw an enhancement of existing functions, as well as myriad added features such as a mobile application, a reworked, industry-leading CV builder; and powerful new job-search tracking and CV-analysis tools.

Bayt.com also has a number of complementary platforms directly related to enhancing the lives and livelihoods of the region’s professional communities.

These include the Salaries platform which is the region’s most comprehensive online salary benchmarking tool as well as the Virtual Fairs platform where vibrant online job and education fairs are held around the year and the Branded Career Channels platform which empowers corporations and institutions around the region to tap into Bayt.com’s industry-leading technology to power their own career channels and further facilitate recruitment. – TradeArabia News Service