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Recruitment HeadHunter Company announced the acquisition of 51% of the resource JobList. ru, owned by ' Agave ', reports Kommersant. The amount of the transaction were not disclosed, but experts suggest that HeadHunter paid for the shares of about $ 2.6 million.

The audience JobList. ru, according to statistics ' Rambler ' was more than a million people. President of the Jury HeadHunter Virovets confident that the acquisition will help his company establish itself in the segment of mass recruitment - soon the majority of ' blue collar ' will look for a job through the Internet rather than through off-line media.

'C in terms of extensions of a general summary of the base of this purchase is justified, since the base of competitors website Joblist. ru contains more resumes lower and middle levels. But if we compare, for example, the client base - by Joblist. ru were almost an order of magnitude smaller companies, and almost all of them are also listed on the Headhunter. ru, we believe that the significant increase in customers buying this will not give ', - said the deal ' Vebplaneta ' executive director of the ID ' Pronto -Moscow ' Fedor Ogarkov.

Market participants believe that the interest of HH is not a separate project, and to increase market share. Toporkov Jacob, manager of public relations SuperJob. ru, suggested in the comments ' Kommersant ', which is buying up Internet recruiting resources, HeadHunter increases the market value before the subsequent sale. As a buyer calls Jacob Toporkov company Monster Worldwide, which is cheaper to buy an asset in Russia than long and hard to build this business ( ' Web planet ' has already written about that Monster bent to oust HeadHunter). Especially since, according to B2B Media, HH controls 50 % of Russian market of online recruitment, the amount of which will be this year about 30-40 million, and annual growth - 35%.

This year, HeadHunter has got some ' work ' sites, including the Career. ru, Free-lance. ru and Nizhny Novgorod job-info. ru, denoting his intention not only to gain a foothold in the two capitals, but also to go to the regions.