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Jobsite Exits: Kliener – Naukri(Infoedge); Web18 – Jobstreet
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 profit of 61 crore
Naukri.com the poster child of the dotcom space in India can pat itself on the [...]
Monster Worldwide To Acquire Yahoo HotJobs For $225 Millions – Will It Trigger M&A Activity Back Home?
U.S economy is predicted to perform on a dicey ground for quite some time but the employment activity surely seems to be on uptrend worldwide.In a seconded move Monster Worldwide Inc has decided to acquire Yahoo HotJobs for $225 Million in cash making itself a formidable player in Online recruitment space just behind Careerbuilder in [...]
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’, [...]
Monster To Follow Naukri & Launch Employment Index For India
Naukri had launched a new research centric monthly update on the hiring activity in India early last year called Jobspeak. It did get them coverage in the media and it seems Monster is set to follow the trend soon with their own employment index.
To be fair to Monster they already have such a service running [...]
Recap 2009: Job Sites & Recruitment Portals
2009 wasn’t by any imagination the best year for Job sites and recruitment portals. The year started with some bad news by leading Job site Naukri.com Founder stating on video that there was a drop in hiring. Then came the shut down news of Techtribe and Yellojobs both of whom were funded by VC’s to [...]
Q2 2009-10 – Infoedge (Naukri) Results – Revenues Dip by 10%
Infoedge which runs Naukri.com, Jeevansaathi.com and 99acres.com has announced its Q2 results.
Highlights of the Quarter are:
Total Income in Q2 of FY 09-10 at Rs.645.11 mn, a 10.8% drop over the corresponding quarter in FY 08-09.
Operating income is 561.61 mn, which is 14% lower compared to last year.
EBITDA is at Rs 235.15 mn compared to [...]
Is Clickjobs’ ‘Pay-Per-Contact’ Model Really Disruptive?
In a recent release, Clickjobs claims that their site traffic has increased by over 200% since the launch of this model and registrations have tripled since the launch of an innovative ‘Pay-per-contact’ strategy.
Naukri Follows Cleartrip – Adds Chatbot Based Search – Opportunity For Horizontal Chatbot?
Just recently cleatrip announced its chatbot based search feature and now Naukri has joined the fray with its own chat bot for jobs. Now people looking for jobs can chat their way to a new job opening by adding Naukri.com’s ‘NaukriOnChat’ to the Gtalk chat ids. This can be done by adding jobs@chat.naukri.com as a [...]
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. [...]
TieUp Update: LIC Partners With PolicyBazaar To Sell Insurance Policy Online
Policybazaar.com the online non-life and life insurance aggregator which was funded by Infoegde (Naukri.com) has tied-up with the largest Insurance company in the country i.e. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to sell its policy “Jeevan Astha” via the online medium. This is the first time that LIC ties-up with an insurance portal to sell [...]
“Drop In Hiring.. Advertising Costs Cut But We Wont Be Laying Off People” – Sanjeev Bikhchandani – Infoedge (Naukri) CEO
We caught up with the man behind Indian Internet’s only BSE listed company Infoedge (naukri.com) and this is probably the first and only online video interview with him. He spoke on topics ranging from Slowdown and its impact on Naukri.com, On layoffs at Naukri, Q3 results, Business Model for Firstnaukri, Investment Strategy, Growth numbers for [...]
Recap 2008: Online Jobsite/Recruitment Space
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 refresh WAT all happened in the WAT (Web, Advertising & Technology) Space..
Today we look at the online [...]
Naukri, Jeevansaathi, Sulekha, Financial Express & Makemytrip Go Mobile Via Spicetele’s Mobisoc Mitr
Spice Televentures has announced the launch of a new venture in mobile software called Mobisoc Technology Pvt. Ltd. Mobisoc’s vision is to enable rich internet experience on all mobile phones. Part of the MK Modi Group and led by chairman Dilip Modi mobisoc has already announced a number of tie ups with leading web players [...]
Naukri To Launch FirstNaukri – An Analysis Of The Freshers Market
So Naukri (infoedge) has announced its plan to enter the fresher jobs market by launching firstnaukri.com. Firstnaukri.com was first launched by Piper Serica in 2005 and it was often confused as a naukri.com company at that time. How do I know all this? Well at that time I started Jobs4Freshers.com a jobsites which as its [...]
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, [...]