Australia's SEEK powers search with Dassault Systèmes' EXALEAD CloudView

Source: SEEK case study.

In a world where data about people is more readily available, searching for the right talent has ironically become more complex. SEEK is the number one job website in Australia and New Zealand and has been experiencing exceptional growth since its beginnings in 1997, reaching potentially more than 2.5 billion people worldwide. 

Recently expanded into Brazil, China, Mexico, and Southeast Asia with plans for further growth, it is changing the way people search for jobs and companies search for candidates through a unique matching experience that is only possible with the best search technology.

To achieve its goal of becoming the world leading marketplace for job seekers and hirers, Australia's SEEK wanted to improve job match relevance and enhance the overall user experience at its website. The company selected Dassault Systèmes’ 3DExperience platform and its search-based EXALEAD CloudView application to provide more thorough and targeted search results.

"We replaced the previous search technology powering our job search website with this application because of its range of functionality and Dassault Systèmes’ vision for EXALEAD CloudView, which matches our long-term strategy in terms of the types of services we plan to deliver to our users," said Duncan Norman, Senior Product Manager – Search Experiences at SEEK.

CloudView locates candidates whose skills and experience most accurately match the characteristics of the positions companies seek to fill. It also allows more queries than before, and customises the ranking of the search results. 

"With more than 125,000 jobs online and over 30 million visits every month, our objective is to increase the number of ways and the chances that the right job seekers and hirers can find and connect with one another.  CloudView produces
better matches, saving time for both sides by reducing the risk of chasing after the wrong job or the wrong candidate,” said Norman.

“With our ranking feature, we ensure that the jobs most relevant to the user’s criteria appear at the top. The search results have more value for the user. In fact, since we deployed CloudView the average search time decreased by one-third."

SEEK worked closely with the Dassault Systèmes R&D team to propose new features that would make its search application even more valuable. “When we chose CloudView, in addition to the technology, we were also looking to establish a reliable, long-term partnership,” Norman said. "The project was delivered on-time and on-budget.”

CloudView’s user-friendliness has been a bonus, helping non-technical employees such as product managers and business analysts to measure our search effectiveness. "This makes implementing changes to the engine faster in response to the rapidly-evolving job market," said Norman.