China's Online Recruitment Market Report

In China, with the development of the Internet, the recruitment methods are continuously changing. The online recruitment characteristics: no region an time limitation, wider range, high efficiency, fast, time-saving, low cost and others, make it become more and more popular to enterprises and applicants. With the market share continuously expanding, it is making steps into the mainstream recruitment way. Currently, the online recruitment is enjoying a fast-growing period.

In 2004, online recruitment occupied 13.2% of the whole recruitment market, far lower than newspaper recruitment and on-spot job fair. In 2005, the online recruitment market grew sharply and shared 20% of the whole recruitment market. Its market share is estimated to be 28.2% and its market scale is estimated to be 1.42 billion Yuan in 2006 respectively, There's still a large development space for China's online recruitment compared with the quotient of 78% in America.

Since 2003, more and more Chinese enterprises began to enjoy the online recruitment service. Especially in 2004, 90% of the World top 500 enterprises in China enjoyed the online recruitment. Moreover, more than half of the high tech enterprises enjoyed the online recruitment service in 2005. The online recruitment gains more and more recognition thanks to its characteristics such as wide range, abundant information, great choices, high quality of applicants and low cost.

China's Online Recruitment Market Report

Apart from the enterprises, the online recruitment also receives more and more applicants' preference. Many of them are well educated young people and surfing the Internet frequently. In 2005, the number of China's netizens reached 111 million, showing a great potential for online recruitment development.

Online recruitment develops imbalanced in different regions: it is developing well in south China, northern China, and eastern China; it has a great development potential in middle China; it is on the elementary step in the northeastern China and southwestern China while it develops relatively slow in the northwestern China.

The development of online recruitment for different industries also has different prospects. IT industry and manufacturing industry are the two largest industrial clients for online recruitment. The local online recruitment market and industrial online recruitment market are deserving more attention from the investors.


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