58 New Year's Day with the city to welcome business peak

NetEase technology News December 30, the current financial crisis, many internet companies to reduce the cost of layoffs, and classified information site 58 with the city said recently due to increase in business, is expected to reverse the market at the end of recruitment. Yiu Jingbo, its CEO, said to NetEase technology that 58 of the city's income after the Olympic Games rose faster, the month of December this year to achieve the level of break-even, is expected to develop faster next year.

At the same time, Yiu Jingbo revealed that the current 58 with the city is in the revision work, the new edition will be officially launched after New Year's Day. He said the new version is mainly to strengthen the user experience, but also to respond to the increase in the number of initiatives.

"According to the experience of previous years, there will be a peak in the amount of data on our website after the Spring Festival," Yiu Jingbo said. "We are currently looking for product design and customer service staff, will reach 30 or 40 people, hope that in the next peak these new employees will be able to position." ”

Financial crisis, 58 of the city's data display recruitment information and skills training increased, Yiu Jingbo said this phenomenon and layoffs are generally related, but 58 of the city of such information is still mainly in low-end, there is no direct competition with the recruitment site.

In the crisis, the start-up companies face the problem of financing, Yiu Jingbo said, 58 in the same city year completed the second round of financing for 5,823 years will not have money problems, and now the company's revenue has been able to make ends meet. He introduced that 58 of the current profit from small and medium-sized businesses paid advertising, and personal information related to the top costs.

"And now it is a good opportunity for us to be a competitor if we are faced with financial problems." "Yiu Jingbo said. (Wang Jiecong)

Interview Record:

NetEase Technology: Heard 58 recent business increase, need to reverse the city recruitment, do not know why?

Yiu Jingbo: Should say after the Olympic Games we found that the amount of information increased relatively large, this is mainly Beijing's data, the amount of information has quadrupled, so we intend to recruit thirty or forty people, mainly customer service personnel and product design this piece.

NetEase technology: When does the recruit finish?

Yiu Jingbo: The end of the year, that is, recently, because after the Spring Festival, is a classification of information peak period, after the spring Festival to rework to find a lot of people, so we hope that new staff to catch up with this peak early next year.

NetEase technology: What is your current staff size? Are these people going to be a lot of pressure on your costs?

Yiu Jingbo: Our country is probably more than 200 people, and the Beijing headquarters is about 200 people, but in fact, after the increase in business volume, our income growth is also very fast, the amount of business willing to put up quickly, we December has almost the balance of revenue, so the newly-created people on our pressure is small

NetEase technology: Then next year's revenue forecast how?

Yiu Jingbo: Next year should continue to increase, it should be said that the classified information Web services now meet the user's very basic needs, so will not be affected by the big environment, and we expect the second half of next year to start a substantial increase in profits.

NetEase Technology: Now venture capital financing difficult to increase, I do not know if this has any impact on you?

Yiu Jingbo: We have just completed the second round of financing this year, two or three years will be short of money, and other competitors now lack of money, for us is a better period of development.