Matchdragon.com: A Chinese Job Portal Comes Out Of The Egg

PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 30, 2008 – Beijing, PRC – Eggsist Ltd, a dynamic and creative software house based in China and Hong Kong (http://www.eggsist.com), has officially launched the first application of its eggMatch software available to internet users: an innovative job platform addressing professionals looking for jobs in China and Chinese employers seeking local qualified staff. Its name is Matchdragon (http://www.matchdragon.com).

Fruit of over 9 months of development, eggMatch is the most innovative software developed by the young enterprise so far. It basically leverages advanced artificial intelligence algorithms (relevance estimation, machine learning and natural language processing) to analyze a certain piece of information – a text file, a database, an image – and highlight its underlying pattern, in order to compare it with others. The final result provided by eggMatch is the possibility to estimate a “match rate” between two different pieces of information, that is, how similar/compatible they are (http://www.matchdragon.com/china-jobs/job-match-software.php).

The potential of eggMatch embraces a wide range of business scopes, but this first public application exclusively concentrates on the market of human resources in China.

This short introduction to eggMatch may sound complicated to non-technicians but, despite the complexity of its underlying engine, matchdragon.com is pretty easy to use for job applicants and employers. Stefano N. Roncari, director of Eggsist Ltd, explains: “Users simply upload their resume’/job offer on the website, and Matchdragon automatically points out the best matches for each of them, which are instantly presented with the related match rate”.

Besides the incorporation of eggMatch, matchdragon.com introduces another innovation in the job search portal scenario: skill analysis. Well known by HR specialists, skill analysis is what allows to describe professional profiles beyond standard categories such as age, study degree, work experience, etc. On this basis, matchdragon.com identifies both job offers and job seekers’ resumes according to the map of skills which are requested or possessed by each of them, that is, what each professional profile can/has to do, and how well.

All in all, matchdragon.com promises to drastically reduce the time and money requested for screening hundreds or thousands of scarcely relevant resumes/job offers, especially in such a dynamic HR market as China’s.

A beta release of the job match platform was published in October 2007, but only yesterday Eggsist Ltd announced the official stable release of its underlying engine: eggMatch.

Matchdragon’s services are completely free of charge for job seekers, whereas employers shall pay a moderate fee to place job ads and experience the unique auto-match functionality. Nevertheless, as a launch promotion, the platform is going to be completely free for employers too for a limited time.