Customers can take advantage of WeChat’s over 468 million active users
San Ramon, CA – March 24, 2015 – eQuest today announced that it has completed its integration with WeChat, China’s largest standalone messaging application. As of December 2014, WeChat had over 468 million active users; with 70 million outside of China.
The job delivery service not only allows eQuest customers the ability to send their job posting alerts to their WeChat account subscribers but also provides candidate link-backs directly from WeChat to company career sites for resume submittal. Precious source-coding data is part of the integration allowing companies to measure its posting performance and effectiveness.
Global organizations are taking advantage of the fast growth of WeChat’s users by establishing official accounts that cater to interested viewers. Companies can utilize their official accounts for branding and awareness, and most recently, listing job posting content. With their official accounts, companies are allowed to push feeds to subscribers, interact with subscribers and provide them with instant customer service. By the end of 2014, number of WeChat public accounts had reached eight million.
“Similar to Twitter and Facebook, WeChat opens another gigantic door to increasing job awareness for companies globally,” said May Ton, eQuest’s Regional Director of the Asia-Pacific region. “eQuest is the only job posting distributor to provide this service.”
WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, sharing of photographs and videos, and location sharing. It can exchange contacts with people nearby via Bluetooth, as well as providing various features for contacting people at random if desired, and integration with social networking services such as those run by Facebook and Sina Weibo .
The release is available now to all existing eQuest customers. Contact your eQuest representative to set up your account.
About eQuest
eQuest provides domestic and international job posting delivery to thousands of customers worldwide. With its global reach, eQuest posts jobs to any posting destination in the world, reaching over 180 countries and territories and thousands of job posting destinations worldwide. eQuest also provides comprehensive candidate source tracking analysis for evaluating job board performance, job board negotiating services, and OFCCP/Diversity support. eQuest is one of the most recognized and admired brands in the human resource industry. www.equest.com