“Drop In Hiring.. Advertising Costs Cut But We Wont Be Laying Off People” – Sanjeev Bikhchandani – Infoedge (Naukri) CEO

by | posted: January 12, 2009
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...
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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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Naukri, Jeevansaathi, Sulekha, Financial Express & Makemytrip Go Mobile Via Spicetele’s Mobisoc Mitr

by | posted: October 20, 2008
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...
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Naukri To Launch FirstNaukri – An Analysis Of The Freshers Market

by | posted: October 6, 2008
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...
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Build the community + add in relevant jobs around it = Job Search 2.0 ?

by | posted: January 30, 2008
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...
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Job Referral Sites The Next Wave In E-Recruitment?

by | posted: January 8, 2008
A recent survey conducted by Yellojobs tried to uncover the reasons why people are leaving companies. Besides for the money factor the other factors that listed high were non co-operating, bad superiors,...
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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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Naukri may provide Shiksha in 6 months!

by | posted: October 23, 2007
Im sure if you are an active reader then you must have heard the buzz about naukri.com looking at launching an education portal.  Also recently there was speculation that the portal might be called Shiksha.com....
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Infoedge (Naukri.com) sets aside 50 crores for E-learning, Acquisitions and Staff Expansion!

by | posted: October 15, 2007
Infoedge Ltd the only dotcom to go public in India has made an announcement that it shall be keeping over 10 million $ i.e. 50 crores for setting up e-learning and education based site, acquiring existing...
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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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WATBlog’s Exclusive Interview with Hitesh Oberoi – COO and Director of Brijj

by | posted: August 17, 2007
We Recently informed our readers about Brijj, Naukri’s initiative at a Business Networking site. WATBlog got in touch with Hitesh Oberoi COO and Director of Brijj, He helps through some more light...
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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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A lot of new websites in the pipeline: Reliance, MSN, Naukri etc queuing up

by | posted: June 28, 2007
I re-call Mr Ajit Balakrishnan (Chairman, Rediff.com) saying during the Digital Marketing Conference that he felt there was a dearth of websites in India and that there is scope for lots and lots of more...
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Naukri vs TimesJobs – Now on YouTube!

by | posted: May 10, 2007
There was a lot of hue and cry recently over the print campaign undertaken by TimesJobs. (Everyone’s quitting naukri…) And Naukri countered back of course, but the latest counter is the one...
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Huge advertising spend, revenue growth and tieups.. its all happening in online space!!

by | posted: May 5, 2007
We had a internal debate at WATBlog yesterday on the kind of posts we should be making.. It ended up being pretty interesting with each of us contributing different point of views. Off late we have been...
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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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