Zhaopin's China Employment Data Now Available on Bloomberg

BEIJING, Jan. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhaopin Limited (NYSE: ZPIN) ("Zhaopin" or the "Company"), a leading career platform[1] in China focused on connecting users with relevant job opportunities throughout their career lifecycles, today announced it has partnered with global business, financial information and news leader Bloomberg for the distribution of China employment data.

The agreement makes the CIER Employment Index, a key indicator of China's labor market, available to users of the Bloomberg Terminal. Based on data from Zhaopin's online platform, the quarterly CIER Employment Index is jointly published by Zhaopin and the China Institute for Employment Research ("CIER") at Renmin University. 

Tracking the ratio changes between job vacancies and job seekers in a variety of industries and cities across the country, the CIER Employment Index identifies the overall trend in China's employment market.

Launched in January 2011, the CIER Employment Index has become a leading barometer of China's labor market and macro-economic environment, and is a useful reference for government decision-makers, employers and job seekers in the country.

Users of Bloomberg Professional service can now find the Zhaopin CIER China Employment Index in economic data under China's Labor Market hierarchies by different sub-categories, including industries, regions and firm-size. The Zhaopin CIER China Employment Index is available to Bloomberg users in both Chinese and English, and will be updated quarterly.

"We are pleased to make the CIER index available to Bloomberg users," said Mr. Evan Guo, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Zhaopin. "As the most popular career platform in China, Zhaopin provides dynamic and real-time big data on China's labor market. We are leveraging such big data to provide valuable insights into China's labor market."

The CIER index score is calculated by dividing the number of job vacancies during a specified period by the number of unique job seekers during the same period. A CIER index score of more than 1 indicates that the labor market is booming, with more vacancies than job seekers. A CIER index score of less than 1 indicates that the labor market competition is intensifying, with more job seekers than available vacancies.

Zhaopin released the CIER Employment Index Report for the fourth quarter of 2016 last week. The CIER index continued its upward trend and reached 2.41 in the fourth quarter of 2016, up from 2.22 in the third quarter and 1.93 in the second quarter. The rising CIER index indicated that the overall economy and the labor market in China continued to pick up in the fourth quarter.

About Zhaopin Limited

Zhaopin is a leading career platform in China, focusing on connecting users with relevant job opportunities throughout their career lifecycle. The Company's zhaopin.com website is the most popular career platform in China as measured by average daily unique visitors in each of the 12 months ended September 30, 2016, number of registered users as of September 30, 2016 and number of unique customers[2] for the three months ended September 30, 2016. The Company's over 125.2 million registered users include diverse and educated job seekers who are at various stages of their careers and are in demand by employers as a result of the general shortage of skilled and educated workers in China. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, approximately 36.9 million job postings[3] were placed on Zhaopin's platform by 509,813 unique customers including multinational corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises and state-owned entities. The quality and quantity of Zhaopin's users and the resumes in the Company's database attract an increasing number of customers. This in turn leads to more users turning to Zhaopin as their primary recruitment and career- related services provider, creating strong network effects and significant entry barriers for potential competitors. For more information, please visit http://www.zhaopin.com.

About Bloomberg

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For more information, please contact:

Zhaopin Limited 
Ms. Daisy Wang 
Investor Relations 
[email protected]

ICR Beijing
Mr. Edmond Lococo
Phone: +86 10 6583-7510
[email protected]

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