CareerPlatinum.com- A Sneak Peek

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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Is Clickjobs’ ‘Pay-Per-Contact’ Model Really Disruptive?

In May this year, WATblog had written about an innovative strategy by jobs portal, Clickjobs to make job posting and resume search free of cost to the recruiters and instead focus on a ‘pay-for-contact’...
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Timesjobs launches Rate your boss viral campaign on Bosses Day!

Yesterday was Bosses Day! Which like other special days like mothers day, fathers day, friendships day etc meant that you needed to communicate more and be nice to your boss! Leveraging this day and the...
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Naukri vs TimesJobs – Now on YouTube!

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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Job portals.. is it just about the numbers?

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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Award winner thats still lost..

One might say that any ad campaigns success can be judged by the awards it gets.. Though generally this might be true there are some campaigns that though win awards but are not able to serve...
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