Chikka Corporate

Chikka inks advertising deal with JobStreet.com

May 20, 2010

Chikka Asia, Inc. – the creators of the popular mobile instant messenger Chikka Messenger, forged an advertising partnership with JobStreet.com – Asia’s leading online recruitment and career site. JobStreet.com will be running a campaign to promote over 35,000 jobs on Chikka Messenger.

“We are very proud to be part of Jobstreet.com’s campaign. We will share this great news to Chikka country, a worldwide Filipino online community; today’s digital generation,” said Chito Bustamante, Chikka chief executive officer (CEO). Chikka’s advertising platforms on the web-based and downloadable Chikka Messenger generates an average of 52 million impressions. Half of these impressions came from users in the Philippines.

JobStreet.com’s campaign aims to encourage employers and jobseekers to sign up for the service in the coming months. “The rate of unemployment in the Philippines has improved greatly from an all time high of 12% in 2005, down to an estimated 8% this year,” said Grace Colet, country manager of JobStreet.com Philippines. “We hope that through our efforts, and this partnership with Chikka, we will be able to offer our services to a wider audience, and find the best matches for skill sets and available jobs in the market,” she added.

JobStreet.com’s service was introduced in 1995 and has since then established itself as the Asia-Pacific’s top recruitment website by offering easily utilized services to aid both jobseekers and employers worldwide. Through their innovation, recruitment departments can now do away with the conventional time-consuming application assessment and instead make it easier for employers and jobseekers to explore the wide availability of talents and companies online.

About Chikka
Providing various wireless applications to over 30 mobile operators in seventeen countries including the US, UK, Italy, Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong and India. Chikka has also diversified; developing applications for mobile content, commerce, and corporate solutions. According to the company, Chikka Messenger is probably the most widely-used and viewed Internet and mobile-based communications tool by Filipinos worldwide.

About JobStreet.com
JobStreet.com is one of Asia’s leading online recruitment companies and operates the popular career site, www.jobstreet.com, with over two million members. JobStreet.com has physical offices in India, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines and a customer base of over 10,000 corporations operating in Asia. For more information about JobStreet.com here.