Kormo Jobs, Google’s job and career development service that helped 4.5 million job seekers find suitable jobs in India, Indonesia and Bangladesh, has finally shut down. This program was stopped from last June 30 with the official announcement. However, nothing has been clarified about why it was closed.
Kormo Jobs has posted a message in this regard saying, “We said goodbye to Kormo Jobs on June 30” on their website. It added, “Although Kormo Jobs has been discontinued, we are working to better serve a wider range of job seekers across our wide range of products and services.”
Google launched this job and career development app called Kormo Jobs in 2018 to help job seekers find suitable jobs. The main aim of this service was to solve various problems between employers and job aspirants. The main aim of this service was to solve various problems between employers and job aspirants. Job seekers apply for their preferred jobs using the service. And employers can easily select the suitable candidate by looking at the profile. In this case, the app worked like Microsoft’s LinkedIn, India’s Nokri or Bangladesh’s BdJobs, a platform for professionals. Here a user would first create a profile and CV with all the required information.
It may be noted that, Kormo Jobs first started its journey in Bangladesh. The service was launched in Indonesia in 2019 and India in 2020 after getting expected response. This service originated in Google by the hand of Vicky Russell, son of Bibi Russell, the world famous fashion artist of Bangladesh. He was the manager and operations lead of Google’s Asia Pacific region at that time. Currently co-founder of fintech startup Stripe.
