Graduates in major colleges and universities will become the main beneficiaries of the recruitment program.

“Although due to the impact of the financial turmoil the global economic environment is not ideal, yet the performance of Baidu is still maintaining strong growth momentum, and the company’s demand for talents is also very strong.” Baidu Chief Operating Officer-Ye Peng talked about the Baidu recruitment for 500 national sales staff, saying on the one hand, Baidu hopes to continue to improve the marketing systems to meet rapidly growing demand for business to better provide customers with high-quality search extension services; on the other hand, it wants to adopt the initiatives to some extent from the state and society to help alleviate the current severe employment pressure on university students, and actively carry out corporate social responsibility. At the same time, he also pointed out that “Next, Baidu will partner with the nationawide agents to stand up and fight for this year’s college graduates in China to provide more job opportunities.”

Industry experts pointed out that a large-scale contrarian recruitment of Baidu is a strong proof of its sustainable and steady performance, and also reflects the profound sense of social responsibility of Baidu as an Internet industry leaders.

In the first quarter of 2009, Baidu’s market share of search requests volume on website is as much as 74.1 percent and continue to firmly occupy the king status of the Chinese search engine market.