In Part 1, we had reviewed AllyHunt from the Job Seeker point of view. This month, I am invited to review their unique employer features.

During the lunch session with Sinsee and Kien Tan, they told me about the pain of a HR personnel when come to hiring new blood for their company. One of the main problem is high volume of irrelevant or unqualified candidates applying their jobs. If you manage to help them to filter those junk candidates, the HR personnel will give you a big hug.

To solve this problem, Allyhunt have a powerful candidate filtering engine which called "Match It, Ally". You allow to set up to 5 prescreen rules which combined with the standard job details such as location, industry, salary range, qualification level and etc. Now, whoever apply the job, their profile will be matched against the preset rules. If you pass it, the system will forward your resume to the employer else your application will send to .

Other than the matching tools, there is a standard job posting wizard which consists of 5 steps:

- "Asia’s No-Frills Job Site"

By looking at their tag line, they are aiming to be the "AirAsia" style of job site in Asia. AllyHunt is different from other job site in terms of products and services. They provides the basic recruitment services such as job posting, search resume and search job. If you need more advance service, then you are asked to pay extra. Just like AirAsia, they prodive you the transportation but no free-meal served.

As explained by Sinsee, AllyHunt is formed by a group of headhunters. After collecting years of headhunting experience, they decided to move on and enter into online recruitment industry. Finally, they created this clean and simple job site - AllyHunt.com.

I received the invitation to review their job site and share with our community. Here is my findings on this No-Frill job site:-

Aggressive Viral Marketing

Do you want to win a tickets to Hong Kong? I guess everybody will interested especially Malaysian. How? Pretty easy, just share AllyHunt with your friends and families. The person with the most referrals wins the tickets. Pretty cool right? I am not sure whether eligible to participate or not since I am sharing with our community here?

By the way, this kind of promotion will create a hype in the community. It is a proven viral marketing concept - Giving freebies to spread your product in a tremendous speed. 

- "JobSake.com connecting jobseekers and employers together internationally"

Another typical job site setup in Malaysia. Why the market is so competitive but still got new player enter into it? Is it really that profitable on this online recruitment industry? As working for the World’s largest recruitment company, I am sure the recruitment market in Malaysia is too saturated. Almost every week will have a typical job site launched and advertise on the taxi.

Anyway, my interest is to review their site and share with our community. Same as my previous review, I am going to point out what is no right in my point of view. It is subject to you. Please don’t take it so seriously. Have fun to know one more job site that might help you in the future.

Bad Point

1. Dead "Career News & Events"
   • The last updated events is on July 27, 2007. It is almost 3 months no fresh content share with the users. If that is the case, I would rather remove this section to put on the latest job on the board. At least give the users an image that this site is updated.
   • By the way, if you guys interested on Career Guide and News for Malaysia Market, SkorCareer by Zul is one of the most resourceful place.
2. Irrelevant FireFox Banner
   • What are they trying to sell to job seeker? Ask them to install FireFox-Google Plugin? I would rather see google adsense than a simple useless banner which doesn’t help me in search job.
3. Un-User Friendly Registration Form
   • Never highlight those required fields on the form. If you miss-out any required field, all your entered data will be wipe off once you submit the form. Then, you have to re-enter again. As an IT programmer, it is totally unacceptable in designing this kind of input form. It should retain my entered data and prompt me which field is missing.

Good Point