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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

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 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 [...]