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Hari Sadu 2.0 says - 'Bubbye Recession'

Hari Sadu 2.0 says – ‘Bubbye Recession’

The New Ad of Hari Sadu is Back and it surely points towards the fact that naukri’s or jobs are back in the Indian market.

Going into the history, Hari Sadu advert was launched in 2006 by Naukri.com and it was an instant hit. No one could ever forget the ‘H’ for ‘Hitler, ‘A’ for ‘Arrogant’, [...]

TimesJobs Launches TechGig - An Exclusive Portal For Techies (Our Review)

TimesJobs Launches TechGig – An Exclusive Portal For Techies (Our Review)

TimesJobs.com – well known Job portal of Times Group, has launched a new portal – TechGig exclusively for IT peoples to get in touch with IT industry jobs, news, Expert views etc.. TechGig domain has been chosen because ‘Tech’ is the short form of Technology and ‘Gig’ represents professional engagement in project. So this [...]

ITC and Monsterindia.com All Set To Tap Rural Job Sector

ITC and Monsterindia.com All Set To Tap Rural Job Sector

For quite some time, we’ve been commenting on rural India and how it’s all set to change the mobile industry. It may seem highly far-fetched, but the Government does seem to be focused on improving the standard of life in Rural India. The corporate world seems to also have got a sniff of the potential [...]

6 Posts of Hiring Gyaan For Startups

6 Posts of Hiring Gyaan For Startups

For a lot of startups hiring can be tiresome job. Unlike big firms, you don’t often find people lining up at your door front for work, and even if by chance you do, one doesn’t find the perfect skills on display. The reason of course being good talent is costly, hard to find and in all probability are happy somewhere because they are good..on a general note. However, this doesn’t meant startups don’t have the right to have good talents on board, on the contrary most startups who go on to become successful do so because of a very strong initial team (beyond the co-founders).

ZYOIN - The New Entrant In The Online Job Referral Space

ZYOIN – The New Entrant In The Online Job Referral Space

Zyoin is the latest entrant in online Job Referral space. This space is currently seeing dull business and if Techtribe news is taken into consideration then the market is dwindling for such services.
What’s the differentiating factor for this portal?
No limit on the payout :
This site has no limit on referral earnings. The highest payout per [...]

Techtribe.com Quits (looks for buyer) While FirstNaukri Begins..

Techtribe.com Quits (looks for buyer) While FirstNaukri Begins..

The online jobs space is showing signs of slowing down and this was clearly pointed out by Sanjeev Bikhchandani on WATShow. This would have impacted the existing players who were focusing on jobs as a revenue segment was well known. But now things have become bad enough for funded players to throw in the towel. [...]

PCWorld Announces Web Awards 2008 – A List of Winners And Guess Who Was On The Jury! :)

Now then, this post kind of illustrates why it’s great to be on the good side of WAT ;) PC World web awards are given for best design and technology used by the existing websites in various categories. This year the winners have been announced in 33 categories evaluated by a jury out of a list of 500 websites.

Jobs and Gadgets most searched by Indians online

Are you a gadget buff and do online research before buying a consumer electronic? Yes, a research has proved that Indians are moving online to make a comparison of price and features, shortlisting models based on the combination of price and value for money.
 
Indians, by nature, prefer recommendations and word-of-mouth rather than just going for [...]

Build the community + add in relevant jobs around it = Job Search 2.0 ?

Watjob
Alootechie job board
Venture jobs
Startup jobs in india
Contentsutra jobs
Agency Faqs Jobswitch
Exchange4media jobs
You might have noticed that in this list you can find the Watjob; Alootechie job board; and Startup jobs in india of the blogosphere – but not say… a Monster or Naukri. Now this is not a slam on Naukri or Monster .On the contrary, [...]

Companies Start Recruiting Through Social Media Websites!

Companies in India, especially all IT companies, have started recruiting through social media networks and blogs. Earlier we had blogged about social media sites being a threat to job portals. This is a very good trend coming up as recruiters get a chance to make a background check of the person they are recruiting. Websites [...]

Comscore data of Unique Visitors

Comscore a leader in providing consumer insight behavior reports and research has recently provided some stats on Unique Visitors across different sectors.
for the Job category

 
 
 
 

 
Times Jobs seems to have really taken off, i wonder if it was because of their Print campaign which said "Everyone is Leaving Naukri"
Naukri seems to [...]

Social networking + Online jobs.

While we wake up to a new social networking site everyday, well almost everyday, here in India, as comprehensively documented by Rajiv in his India 2.0 series, interesting activity is happening outside of India in the social networking scene.
There’s talk of Wide Area Social Networking or WASN, Business 2.0 has an article on Linkedin which [...]

Jobsites make losses and Matrimony gets fined!

Well its interesting to see that despite the internet boom which according to many analysts is here to stay companies are making losses. Though you might argue that profit is not really a measure of the potential of a segment (think youtube buyout by google) but still its surprising that something as revenue generating as e-recruitment has [...]

Naukri launches toolbar

It seems funding from Kliener Perkins and Sherpalo and a soon to come out IPO has given Naukri.com a great boost. It was only recently that they announced a tieup with CareerBuilder and now naukri has come out with one more innovative product and also the first job site in India to do so. So after [...]

Niche job sites – Who where why?

Recently GigaOm featured an article about the rising niche jobsites in the US and how popular blogs were providing job posting services.
I did my own little research of Indian niche job sites or job posting sections and came up with the  following list with description of the sites..
Niche – Advertising
Agencyfaqs jobswitch & Exchange4media Jobs - Agencyfaqs is the [...]