CareerPlatinum.com- A Sneak Peek

by | posted: November 13, 2010
Chennai based software services company CareerOne has launched the so called India’s first ever career enablement portal, CareerPlatinum.com.  The portal has one charter. To provide Indian youth a platform...
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Jobsite Exits: Kliener – Naukri(Infoedge); Web18 – Jobstreet

by | posted: March 16, 2010
Its exit time in the digital space as two exits by investors in two jobsites in India were announced. Lets have a look at them and how they differ from each other. Kliener Exits Naukri – Makes a...
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Freshersworld.com To Go Offline Via ‘College Ambassador’ Programme

by | posted: January 15, 2010
It was just a year ago when the hiring activity slumped to all time low in India and the situation was much more gloomier for freshers. The time is changing and as economy recovers so is fresh hiring....
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Recap 2008: Online Jobsite/Recruitment Space

by | posted: December 26, 2008
Starting today till the end of the year we are going to be posting vertical specific recap posts analysing the year 2008. We shall call these the Recap 2008 series. So stay tuned to WATBlog to recap and...
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SimplyHired.com Launches JobSearch For India – 25% Job Cuts Expected in India – SimplyFired.com?

by | posted: October 29, 2008
Updated: It seems that simplyhired also has a how did you get fired? stories site at simplyfired.com! I guess even they prepare for the worst.. So incase simplyhired tanks after all the funding atleast...
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Jobsites On A Downward Slide? – Naukri CEO Says “I Feel There Will Be Slower Growth”

by | posted: September 9, 2008
Well economy recession in the US has had its impact on the IT industry in India with IT companies chilling out a bit on their hiring plans and also possibly hiving off people to cut corner and survive...
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Jobsite Updates – SMS Your Resume & Most User Friendly Jobsite

by | posted: April 5, 2008
Jobsites have been quiet these days as there as hardly been any update on the jobsite front since sometime. It seems like after all the “I own the largest database” jobsites have figured that...
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Naukri Goes International! – Targets 15 Countries..

by | posted: December 14, 2007
Naukri.com India’s largest job portal has gone international. Even earlier naukri.com had job postings from overseas locations but now it has acknowledged the overseas potential and created a separate...
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5 Reasons Why Networking sites are a threat to Jobsite business?

by | posted: October 16, 2007
We had earlier written about referral based job networking sites and posed the question whether job networking sites were the future of e-recruitment and would they replace the current jobsite model? I...
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After Backward castes.. Its time for the poor to get Jobs! Enter Babajob.com!

by | posted: October 12, 2007
Yes you read it right! After naukri announced about the backward castes database i came across another story on another niche job portal but this time with a twist! Enter Babajob.com currently focussed...
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Naukri.com creates Backward Caste Job seeker database!

by | posted: October 8, 2007
Earlier we had blogged about the naukri revamp and had got some criticism as well. But this time naukri has done what it does best i.e providing resume databases! Only this time it has created (more like...
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Big Jobsites still Innovating? Naukri launches Asknaukri and Monster launches Video for Recruiters

by | posted: July 13, 2007
Internet is a space of constant and persistant innovation.. Now whether that innovation is borrowed, inspired from somewhere else is a different issue. So Jobsite whih have been around for almost a decade...
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Job portals.. is it just about the numbers?

by | posted: April 17, 2007
If you haven’t already been a witness to the recent timesjobs and naukri battle with regards to number of active resumes which started with their campaign "everyone is quitting naukri"...
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Monster traffic surges by 238%! (does it matter?)

by | posted: December 4, 2006
According to this Press release Monsterindia.com claims thats its traffic has surged by 238% in July-Sept 06 compared to the same period last year. It also states that Monsterindia.com acquired 62%...
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Bharat Matrimony group not eyeing social networking

by | posted: October 30, 2006
Exchange4media: Job portals fight for numbers took another turn when Clickjobs.com, the jobs portal from the Bharat Matrimony group, has for the first time scored over Timesjobs.com on the Alexa charts...
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After Cola wars its Jobsite wars!

by | posted: September 11, 2006
Just yesterday i wrote about the Internet advertising on TV and how recruitment portals or more commonly known as jobsites formed 31% of the total advertising exposure to Internet portals on television...
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