Recruit.net is to the east what Indeed is to the U.S.

I guess Cn has become the center of the job board reviews. Tonight we take a look at Recruit.net which is a job board aggregator based in Hong Kong for countries in Asia and Australia. They cover jobs for India, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore. While the site is trilingual (English, Chinese and Japanese), I can only review the portions of the site that are in English unfortunately.

At first load, I am very impressed with the design and layout of the site. The site loads quick and has a high level of "polish" to it. They do have some annoying tool tips when you mouse over a city as all they do is repeat the name of the city and are unneeded.

I jumped over to the India section and to my surprise, my searches were saved automatically. Love it. I ran a search for all jobs in Banglagore and what I like is that the results have a smooth feeling to them. If I compare them to the results on Indeed, the results feel just like Google and not like a job search. Grab a RSS feed of your searches and keep up-to-date on the latest postings.

Similar to other job aggregators, Recruit.net uses a "featured jobs" model to generate revenue. Featured jobs appear above other jobs in the search results and can also appear to the right of the search results.

You can also upload your resume and have Recruit.net push it out to the recruiters/employers in your selected locations. Lastly the site offers widgets which you can place on your site or blog. I think they need to somehow offer a level of compensation for the widget placement. It's free advertising for Recruit.net without returning anything to the site owner (ok, yes the site owner can offer more value to its visitors but that just won't cut the mustard).

My concern with all of the aggregator sites including SimplyHired, Indeed, Recruit.net, etc. is whether they are indexing that one "perfect" job. Otherwise, these aggregator sites rock and really can save a lot of time in searching for a new job. That time is better spent networking or learning a new skill.