Dating 場所/位置 eHarmony 目的(とする)s to mix work with 楽しみ

By Sai Sachin R and Lehar Maan

Aug 31 (Reuters) - As a marriage 助言者/カウンセラー years ago, Neil Clark 過密な住居 saw first-手渡す how incompatibility led to unhappy matches.

So the compatibility factor was 重要な - even in the 指名する - when he co-設立するd online match-making service eHarmony in 2000.

Now, with 調査するs showing 70 パーセント of Americans are unhappy with their 職業s, he thinks the same 焦点(を合わせる) on matching personalities can work in the 新規採用 産業.

"Nobody has really matched personalities ーに関して/ーの点でs of the applicant and the 監督者. That's not something that LinkedIn or Monster do," 過密な住居 said, explaining eHarmony's 計画(する)s to get into the 雇用 産業.

"(The career market) is such a big market that we do 推定する/予想する it to grow faster than our 核心 製品," the octogenarian 臨床の psychologist and eHarmony CEO said in an interview.

Finding love is not 平易な, and neither is the ますます (人が)群がるd online match-making 産業.

The market is 支配するd by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, owner of Match.com 同様に as other 場所/位置s for the lovelorn. IAC has also been 伸び(る)ing market 株 through 取得/買収s, 含むing dating app Tinder.

Los Angeles-based EHarmony 計画(する)s to 開始する,打ち上げる its 新規採用 service - Elevated Careers - in 2016, and 推定する/予想するs the 商売/仕事 to 与える/捧げる about 60 パーセント of the company's 歳入 within three years.

In the 合間, 訪問者s to elevatedcareers.com can 調印する up either as a 職業-探検者 or recruiter.

Work on the 事業/計画(する) has been under way for more than a year. "It's so important that Elevated Careers is developed to eHarmony 基準s 経由で (弁護士の)依頼人 feedback," a spokeswoman said.

The new service speaks to eHarmony's need to diversify as IAC/InterActiveCorp 本体,大部分/ばら積みのs up ahead of the planned public 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)ing of Match Group, which will 持つ/拘留する the company's dating 商売/仕事s.

IAC 押し進めるd deeper into the 動きやすい-based dating 商売/仕事 last month when it agreed to buy PlentyOfFish.

Match Group did not 答える/応じる to requests for comment on whether it 計画(する)s to 開始する,打ち上げる a 新規採用 service.

NO IPO FOR NOW

EHarmony has no 計画(する)s to go public, 過密な住居 said.

"We love the position of 存在 able to manage our own 状況/情勢 and not feel 押し進めるd by any public groups," he said.

"We're very much on the 味方する of remaining 私的な as of this time."

Daniel Kurnos, an 分析家 at 仲買業 (判断の)基準 Co, 見積(る)s that eHarmony, whose biggest 株主 is Madrone 資本/首都 Partners, has a market value of about $1 billion.

The U.S. online dating market is 価値(がある) more than $2 billion 毎年, he said.

In comparison, the online career market - which 含むs LinkedIn Corp and Monster 世界的な Inc - is 価値(がある) about $6 billion a year, said Lisa Rowan of market 研究 会社/堅い IDC.

The entire talent 取得/買収 and staffing market 世界的な is 価値(がある) about $94 billion, she said.

EHarmony 推定する/予想するs "high and 二塁打-digit" 歳入 growth in 百分率 条件 this year, to between $275 million and $350 million.

収入s before 利益/興味, 税金, 価値低下 and amortization (EBITDA) are 推定する/予想するd to 増加する by 50-70 パーセント both this year and next, said 過密な住居, who turns 81 next month.

But he said the 出資/貢献 from Elevated Careers would be "minuscule" as eHarmony spends ひどく to develop the 商売/仕事.

Both 雇用者s and 職業-探検者s will likely 支払う/賃金 to use the service, although some features could be 解放する/自由な.

More than 100 variables will be used to match (弁護士の)依頼人s.

Apart from 技術s and experience, the algorithm will 試みる/企てる to match 職業-探検者s and 雇用者s based on such variables as personality - as on the eHarmony 場所/位置 - 同様に as work and social and cultural values.

過密な住居 retired from eHarmony in 2007 but (機の)カム 支援する as CEO after five years to turn around the 商売/仕事, whose growth was slowing in the 直面する of 増加するing 競争.

He 削減(する) 職業s, bought 支援する 株 from Sequoia 資本/首都 and 削除するd the nine-member board to two (now three) - himself and "very の近くに friend" Greg Penner, 創立者 of Madrone 資本/首都 and now chairman of Wal-市場 蓄える/店s Inc.

A 両立できる match, it seems. (Editing by Sayantani Ghosh and Ted Kerr)

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