Press Release

Over 200 jobs offered at the Naukri.com Job Fair

October 19 2008

Over 200 jobseekers received a job offer at the Naukri.com Job Fair held at Diamond Hall, Rajpath Club, Ahmedabad. Over 1500 candidates were shortlisted for further interviews. Besides hiring for current openings, it also helped recruiters build their candidates database for future requirements.

Recruiters were enthused by the response to the fair. “It was an amazing experience. We have been able to identify a huge talent to a great extent through Naukri.com job fair,” said Shailesh Bhrambhatt, Vice President – HR, Intas Pharmaceuticals Limited.

On the occasion, V Suresh, National Head - Sales, Naukri.com said, “Ahmedabad, one of the hottest job markets in India, responded very well to the job fair. It was interesting to see talent walk-in from various industries with over 40% experienced professionals, ranging from 2-12 years. Going forward, we plan to cover various other cities in the country as well.”

The Ahmedabad Job fair was a multi industry job fair, with more than 32 companies participating from diverse sectors including IT, ITeS, Engineering, Media, Banking and Insurance, Biotech, Gaming and many more. Companies hired for freshers, middle and senior positions like Business Development Executives, Research Analysts, Business Advisors, SAP Consultants, Quality Analysts, Java Engineers, Graphic Engineers, Game Programmers, and Sales Managers.

“Ahmedabad being a pharma hub, it has been a very fruitful talent hunting place especially for young pharma professionals. This is our second consecutive participation in Naukri.com job fair and we are quite pleased with the response. Congratulations to Naukri.com for hosting a successful event,” said Prakash Mehta, GM – HR, Alembic Limited

The Gold Sponsor for the job fair was SKF. Other participating companies are 9 Visa, Alembic, Amrivarisun Technology, Aviva Life Insurance, Benchmark HR Solutions, Career Launcher, Career Shapers, Charisma Education, Cybage Software, Delta Star Ventures, DNA, Divya Bhaskar, Etech Inc, Genius Consultants, Global Innov Source Solutions, Institute of Business Management & Research, Intas Pharmaceuticals, Jobs Bhandaar, Marg - Karaikal Port, MOTIF Infotech, My FM, Pacifica Companies, PATHWAY Placement Services, Paul Mason Consultancy, Sai InfoSystem, Shiksha.com, Station-E Info Services, Taurus Earthmovers, Upman Placements and Winny Immigration & Education services.

About Naukri.com
Naukri.com, India’s No. 1 job site and the flagship brand of Info Edge revolutionized the concept of recruitment in India. Since its inception in 1997, Naukri.com has seen exponential growth year after year. Info Edge completed a successful IPO in November 2006.

Naukri.com is a recruitment platform and provides services to the corporate world, placement agencies and job seekers in India and overseas. It offers a bouquet of products like Resume Database Access, and Response Management tools and its services include Job Postings, and branding solutions on the site. With 2,00,000 jobs live at any point, Naukri.com serviced over 32500 corporate clients in the past year.

The company has over 1700 people operating through 67 offices in 41 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai, Riyadh and Bahrain. For more details log on to http://www.naukri.com and http://www.infoedge.in