The company trawled through many job platforms and company hiring pages to centralise the best jobs online

A Singaporean website that trawled through various job platforms to centralise the job search process has been taken down after receiving legal threats, according to the Straits Times.

Owned by JobTech, the site, called Jobseeker, targetted unemployed professionals (often referred to as PMETs) and claimed to have over 5,000 subscribers. The site had also moved beyond trawling job platforms and was aggregating potential opportunities straight from a company’s hiring page.

The company is notable for two reasons. First, its Chairman is Phillip Yeo, who is currently the Chairman of SPRING Singapore.

Second, the JobTech said it could help Facebook sift through its fake news problem using the same AI technology it has built for automating the job search. It was reported today by Bloomberg that Facebook’s early attempt at solving its problem has not gone well.

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Since removing the website, the company has been defiant about the legal threats. Yeo told the Straits Times it was ‘regrettable’ that JobTech had been blocked from other companies’ data. He cited Singapore’s 20,000 long-term unemployed professionals as the people suffering from the decision.

According to the Straits Times, the company sent an email that reads as follows:

“Recently, we found out that not everyone shares our view of wanting to help retrenched PMETs get back to work. As a result, we have had to take down our Jobseeker website for the moment. We didn’t think it would happen because we thought we were providing a valuable and important service.”

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The AI technology is licensed from A*Star — a company that Yeo is considered to be the Founding Father.

JobTech is hoping to relaunch the Jobseeker website soon — possibly within the month.

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