Thai tech hiring startup GetLinks gets revenue boost from pandemic layoffs
Thai tech hiring startup GetLinks gets revenue boost from pandemic layoffs
By Chayut Setboonsarng
BANGKOK, July 9 (Reuters) - Alibaba-backed tech hiring platform GetLinks is seeing a boost in revenue after a series of layoffs at technology-related companies like Grab and Agoda enabled other firms expanding digital and online operations to snap up workers.
GetLinks saw its revenue double in the first half of 2020 from the corresponding period a year earlier, chief strategy officer and co-founder Djoann Fal told Reuters.
Companies ramped up recruiting to enhance digital services and e-commerce capabilities, reflecting how the coronavirus is accelerating digital trends like online shopping and remote work.
GetLinks has placed workers at Uniqlo, L’Oreal and top retailer Central Group this year, he said, and that full stack engineers, e-commerce and product managers were among the top roles recruited.
“A Thai bank in June bought our pre-paid subscription for $20,000 to hire dozens of people for the next three months,” Fal said.
Prior to the pandemic, the bank would pay $1,000 per hire or 15% of salary.
GetLinks does not charge candidates.
In May, the company listed 4,700 jobs versus an average of 2,000 in a month.
The demand coincided with a flood of new candidates as startups and other companies shed workers.
Bookings Holdings Inc's Thailand-based Agoda slashed 1,500 jobs.
Singaporean ride-hailing startup, Grab, laid off about 360 employees and rival operator, Indonesia-based Go-Jek, also cut 430 jobs.
"The influx was so high that we had to make a special CSR (corporate social responsibility) campaign to support the talents who got fired by providing them work from home opportunities," Fal said, adding hundreds of new candidates from Agoda and Grab came onto the platform.
Last month, GetLinks entered into a partnership with Manila-based Kalibrr, bringing the number of candidates on GetLinks to 5 million from one million with more white-collar professionals.
The tie-up also expands its customer base from 10,000 to 25,000 companies and gives it reach in Indonesia and the Philippines.
(Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng; Editing by Raju
Gopalakrishnan)
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由沙尤塞博恩薩恩
曼谷，7 月 9 日（路透社）-阿里巴巴支持的技術招聘平台 GetLinks 在 Grab 和 Agoda 等技術相關公司進行了一系列裁員之後，收入有所增加，使其他公司擴展數字和在線業務以搶購員工。
首席戰略官兼聯合創始人 Djoann Fal 告訴路透社告訴，GetLinks 在 2020 年上半年的收入從相應時期開始翻了一番。
公司加速招聘，以增強數字服務和電子商務能力，反映了冠狀病毒如何加速在線購物和遠程工作等數字趨勢。
他說，GetLinks 今年將工人放在優衣庫，歐萊雅和頂級零售商中央集團，並且全棧工程師，電子商務和產品經理是招聘的頂級角色之一。
法爾說：「6 月份的一家泰國銀行以 20,000 美元的價格購買了我們的預付訂閱，以便在接下來的三個月僱用了數十人。」
在大流行之前，銀行將支付每次租用 1,000 美元或工資的 15％。
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5 月份，該公司列出了 4,700 個職位，而一個月的平均值為 2,000 個。
隨著初創公司和其他公司擺脫工人，這種需求恰逢大量新候選人。
預訂控股公司的總部位於泰國的 Agoda 大幅削減了 1,500 個工作崗位。
新加坡乘車初創公司 Grab 解僱了約 360 名員工和競爭對手運營商，總部位於印尼的 Go-Jek，也削減了 430 個工作崗位。
Fal 表示：「湧入量如此之高，以至於我們必須進行特殊的 CSR（企業社會責任）活動，以支持通過為他們提供在家工作機會而被解僱的人才。」Fal 表示，Agoda 和 Grab 的數百名新候選人加入了該平台。
上個月，GetLinks 與馬尼拉的 Kalibrr 建立了合作夥伴關係，使 GetLinks 上的候選人數量從 100 萬名擁有更多白領專業人士的一百萬人中增加到 500 萬人。
該合作還將其客戶群從 10,000 家擴展到 25,000 家公司，並在印尼和菲律賓提供業務。
（由 Chayut 賽博森薩恩報告; 由拉朱編輯
戈巴拉克里希南）
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