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SimplyHired’s coming to town

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The online recruitment business in India is sure to see some serious action soon. SimplyHired is going international and India is part of their expansion plan. While, it does not directly hurt Naukri or Monster, this is the best time for them to walk in and make an impact especially because of the forecasted shift in the jobseeker’s online behaviour. During the downturn, jobseekers will start using the job search feature rather than uploading their resume and waiting for recruiters to call.

Written by Nimish Adani

October 29th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

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  • Rohan
    Thats a good news for smaller job sites who don't have the resources to attract users...
  • Joe
    That's not good news to smaller jobsites but for smarter jobsites :D

    Moreover, a small piece of advise for anyone who is looking at kicking off a jobsite. If you've not worked with a relatively popular classified portal... please stay away from wasting your time in starting a jobsite for that matter ..any damn site.

    Stop assuming that you can easily take away at least 1% of the market ( ie 5 crores a year). You need to do a "Naukri" for 2 years to take away that kinda % from the industry ...or ..you need to do something thats extremely different , like what Nimish is doing with workosaur.

    Yours Lovingly
    IOne who'd seen it all ( almost) :D
  • Rohan
    You've made some extreme and unsubstantiated statements here... It would be good if you care to elaborate on some of those..

    I agree anyone who says he can take a small percentage of a huge market is a novice and has only made plans in an excel sheet..

    Not sure what nimish is doing "extremely different" with workosaur... seems like a regular job board to me....
  • Joe
    Ok..let me ask you a very simple question.

    what made you say that simplyhired's entry into indian turf will benefit smaller jobsites?

    I said nothing different. Guys who do not have the experience of meeting a client , understanding what he wants, selling, servicing, going through the pain of retaining etc are gonna be super duper flops in Indian Internet Industry and especially in the most competitive jobs domain. There are many case studies in India and if you dont know any of that, then you dont qualify to make your statement no.1 :P

    There is no need to substantiate here because in my opinion there is not more than one company that has a positive EBITBA in Indian Internet Industry and majority of us know how they've run their business :)

    Now, Coming to workosaur... I think he's got more free traffic than shine.com without spending a pie on marketing. So, his venture is smart :P .

    I am a strong beleiver if Robust Business Model coupled with sexy "Approach". I think he is gettig it right there in a domain where many biggies have failed :P

    Now...does that answers your query?
  • In fact, they've gone ahead and launched the Indian version - http://www.simplyhired.co.in.

    BTW, I am quite enjoying this argument.
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