New Egyptian job search site Cantalop uses algorithm to fight unemployment

Unemployment is one of the biggest crises currently facing both the government and the public in Egypt, especially with the closure of many large companies in the wake of the political turmoil that followed the revolution.

As has always been the case, crises inspire entrepreneurs to come up with innovative ideas to address the issues at hand. In the past, the issue of general regional unemployment has inspired entrepreneurs to launch such successful recruitment sites as Bayt.com, Wuzzuf.net, and Nabbesh.com.

But Karim Al-Halwani, founder of Egyptian job search engine Cantalop, has a different view of how to address the problem. Having studied the Egyptian job market for a whole year, Al-Halwani determined that he wanted to “provide a technical solution that gathers vacancies from all specializations and categories under one roof.”

The concept for Cantalop, which Al-Halwani launched two months ago in beta, was to use “an algorithm that gathers all vacant positions from companies’ websites,” says Al-Halwani.

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New Egyptian job search site Cantalop uses algorithm to fight unemployment