SEEK Limited is an Australian employment website for job listings, headquartered in

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. Seek also operates in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

History

Seek was founded in November 1997 by

Andrew Bassat Andrew Reuven Bassat is a co-founder of Seek Limited along with his brother Paul Bassat. Since its inception in September 1997, the company has become the #1 Job seeking portal in Australia. Bassat remained CEO of SEEK until 2021 (succeeded by Ia ...

Paul Bassat Paul Moss Bassat is an Australian attorney and businessman. He co-founded online job search website Seek Limited in 1997 with his brother Andrew Bassat. The brothers were co-CEOs until Paul resigned in 2011. Bassat is a Commissioner of the Austra ...

and

Matt Rockman Matthew Rockman is an Australian investor and tech entrepreneur, currently living In Australia. One of the three original founders of SEEK Ltd., alongside Paul and Andrew Bassat, Rockman took SEEK from a business plan to become one of Austr ...

along with first employees Robert Sloan and Adam Ryan as an online version of print employment classifieds, and it launched its website in March 1998. On 18 April 2005, Seek was floated on the

Australian Securities Exchange Australian Securities Exchange Ltd (ASX) is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary Exchange (organized market), securities exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange (sometimes referred to outside of Australia as, or c ...

with a

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of $587 million. In May 2022, it moved its head office to a newly-constructed building in

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. In June 2024, SEEK sold its holdings in the Latin American job-boards OCC (Mexico) and Catho (Brazil).

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