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The development and competitive analysis of the

Job Portal Industry



Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
Certification of having successfully completed the
Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) from
Unitedworld School of Business, Kolkata


SUBMITTED BY

Name: PRABAR RAKSHIT
Unitedworld School of Business, Kolkata



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TABLE OF CONTENTS




SERIAL NUMBER TOPICS PAGE NO.
1 Executive Summary 5
2 Objectives 6
3 Introduction to the
Industry
7
4 The players in the
market
13
5 The business model of
the job portal industry

6 General process of
recruitment through job
portals

7 Efficiency of the job
portals

8 Competitive analysis of
the top 3 job portals

9 Services offered by the
different portals

10 The present and the
future

11 Conclusion
12 Bibliography
13 Annexures

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY



When an organization creates a new industry and starts its business it enjoys the advantage
of being the first mover. Slowly and steadily the business grows along with the market and
thus leading to overall development of the industry.
After this new players comes in to the market and thus competition rises.
Similarly the job portal industry in India was developed with Naukri.com being the first
mover in the market followed by others. Eventually the market which was at a lag in the
beginning just because of lack of internet usage suddenly started soaring high and took an
upturn and started developing. Similarly players in the market increased leading to an
increase in competition.
In todays world people loves saving time. That is why they prefer smart things like a
smart phone or a smart television. Due to this the launch of job portals started saving their
time and created a new industry altogether keeping in mind the new technological
innovations taking place in the market.
Thus I have decided to study in detail, the reasons for such development of the job portal
industry in India and the benefits and features offered by the top 3 job portals in India and
its competitive and distinctive analysis along with the structure and work process of the
industry.
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OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY



The main objectives of this study are as follows:


The development of job portal industry

The reasons for such developments

Why business clients prefer job portals than print media advertisements

The competition prevailing in the market

The value added benefits offered to the respective customers

The competitive analysis of several job portals

The different products of such job portals

How these job portals function

The working staff behind such job portals and how they manage and retain their
clients

Swot analysis of the overall industry

Finding out further relevant facts and data and information








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Introduction to the Job Portal Industry

The early days

From being a completely new territory back in 2001, the Internet medium saw crazy
valuations post the dot com crash. A lot of effort went into promoting and advocating the
prophecy of Internet as a medium and the only community that was attracted to online
businesses was, of course, the IT industry and they were also looking at hiring the kind of
numbers that was unheard of by the Indian market then. Hence, the proposition of a job
portal became to deliver candidates to this industry as theyre online, close to technology
and thus, easy to attract.

While efforts continued in educating the market, it was only after 2005 that the job portals
started stabilizing with respect to volumes and people started venturing beyond IT, to
sectors such as engineering, automobile, manufacturing and financial services. Both
jobseekers and companies saw the value proposition in taking their search online better
reach at higher speed and at lower cost. Back then, all English papers would have a
readership of about 14 million but by 2004 05, the job portals had 22 23 million
registered users on job website. This migration brought about changes in product offerings
and slowly diversified the e-recruitment industry.
Post 2007, the industry witnessed many interesting developments. The mobile explosion
overtook the Internet market by storm and its penetration grew exponentially. Today, they
have 700 800 million mobile users compared to the 100-odd million Internet users. And
the Facebook phenomenon saw the sector shift focus to social media from 2009. That was
also the time when technology and consumer consumption, and behavior patterns of
jobseekers started changing fast. The employers also started talking about talent-demand
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supply gap, offering more engagement tools, positioning their brand better and thinking
whether job portals can take their brand successfully into Tier II and III towns.
In 2009, the economic crisis put pressure on the business to become more cost conscious.
Hence, every event from attracting talent to sourcing strategy was evaluated in terms of its
return on investment. From focusing only on sourcing, attraction and recruiting, people
realized that it is critical to have a retention strategy as well.
Today, it is imperative to not only have an online presence but also harness it to ones
advantage. From having profiles of candidates with mainly formal education, job portals
now gets an interesting mix of graduates, post graduates, those with certified courses and
from entry level to professionals with 13 or more years of experience.

In the rising era of social media, Indian recruitment industry especially, job portals
segment is going through a bit of struggling though an interesting period. Though the
Indian numbers of Social Media penetration are much lesser (5% India Vs 60% USA), it
has certainly made top job portals to take a notice of this trend and respond to it rather re-
actively.


The traditional job portal industry in India is heavily dominated by Naukri.com (InfoEdge
Ltd.) and MonsterIndia.com (Subsidiary of Monster.com). The other players like
TimesJobs.com, Shine.com, Careerbuilder.cometc has been on the edge, struggling for
their market share for a long time. Today corporate companies are looking at social media
channels to lower their sourcing costs, increasing candidate engagement and enhancing
employer brand. In fact, a professional networking site like LinkedIn has been keeping a
strong pressure on job portals. The effect of this trend has been felt by job portals
significantly in past couple of years. Naukri.com and Monster.com has been under pressure
to increase their profit shares and market value in the current scenario. Both of these
houses contributes to an overall INR 600 Crore (120 Million USD) turnover in between
them.

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This market trend has definitely led a paradigm shift in a ways job portals are looking at
their internal business model and diversifying their service stream. The days are gone when
job portals were happy to maintain their candidate database and earn yearly service
contracts. Today they cannot simply depend on their traditional model and there is a
greater need to diversify their service streams. Market is already witnessing some of the
new equations that are being tested by many of these players.

Two sides of a coin


One of the biggest opportunities for the e-recruitment sector is to explore the vast potential
of the rural landscape. For both the jobseekers from Tier II and III areas and the employers,
expanding the reach and penetration to these areas will prove beneficial. With job portals
being largely restricted to white-collar jobs, opportunities in the blue-collar workforce will
be promising despite the infrastructure challenges. It is about how many people can be put
to work and with the landscape changing so fast, companies will find newer opportunities
to build products and services around it to harness it efficiently.

These very same prospects could serve as threats for the sector. Tapping into newer
markets and geographies comes with its own share of risks. From a 10,000 feet point of
view, education and employability is the biggest challenge. Do people have the necessary
knowledge and skills to be employable? And since job portals are focused on talent, they
can be positively or negatively impacted by it. Monsters alliance with V Skills, a
government initiative in skills certification and employability, is a move in this effort. The
market will become a tougher place for the number three and number four players to
survive as industry leaders strengthen their position. It will be tough to manage unless they
get funded or get acquired by leaders or see a consolidation in the category happening.

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On a concluding note, The sectors future outlook really depends on how the economy play
itself out. And, whether we like it or not, the economy does depend on various external
factors be it policy decisions made by the Indian government or the European crisis.



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The players in the market

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Naukri.com

Naukri is by far the biggest job portal in India with around INR 330 crores of yearly
turnovers. Recently they have launched FirstNaukri.com and NaukriPremium.com as new
services for the segmented and focused target audience. FirstNaukri.com as name suggest
is targeted for graduates. In this case, Naukri is offering assessment tools, on-boarding
platform and employer branding options for employers. Similarly, they are also providing
options like events employer-connect / engagement tools, contests and consulting for
students. On the other hand, they have also targeted high-end segment of executive /
leadership level candidates through NaukriPremium.com. This portal is a focuses on senior
level candidates who are typically above INR 15 lakh CTC.
Interestingly, Naukri has also launched the Internal Referral Tool that is integrated to their
job portals. This tool lets recruiters to open their Naukri jobs internally to employees and
receive candidates. This move certainly suggests that Naukri is looking at a different
segment of business. This may be a good option for small to medium enterprises that do
not have in-house system for referrals. Nevertheless, this certainly raises the risk of
exposing internal associates to Naukri and other related data security concerns.






MonsterIndia.com
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Monsters BeKnown, the social media networking tool is around for past one year or so,
but have not earned much success globally. They are now trying to integrate BeKnown in
their job search results page to gain momentum. I recently learned that Monster has added
Social Connections to their job listing which lets candidate to view who all in their
BeKnown network works in that company. This feature is yet to release in India, but it
certainly shows the path going ahead.
In addition to above, MonsterIndia has recently launched Monster College in their service
offerings. Monster College connects colleges to recruiters. It offers to strengthen a
relationship between college T&P officers with company HRs. They also have assessment
tools for filtering candidates presented to HR.

TimesJobs-

TimesJobs.com is TBSLs flagship business and has been in existence since 2004 and has
established a strong competitive position in the online recruitments space amidst tough
competition. In January 2004, TimesJobs.com, the fastest growing and most innovative
Indian online recruitment portal, was born with a mission to reach out to all Indians in the
country and abroad and provide them with the best career opportunities available. Its focus
was to ensure their skills were showcased and matched suitably with the HR requirements
of employers from diverse industries, in a timesaving and cost-efficient manner. Its
concentrated approach has made TimesJobs.com the blue-eyed boy of recruiters and
aspirants alike.

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Shine.com

MyParichay is a Summit HR start-up is a social media employee referral tool in Indian
market. It has announced a partnership with Shine.com to let recruiter shares their jobs on
MyParichay through the network of company associates. This is an interesting
development indeed as a Job portal meets Social Media meets Employee Referrals
scenario. This partnership will definitely give a way to new equations in the industry if it
creates a successful case-study.

Headhonchos Senior Hiring Job Portal
One of the oldest and largest executive search company ABC Consultants Ltd has
initiatedHeadHonchos last year to build a new job portal that is targeted to senior /
leadership / executive level candidates. Interestingly, they used LinkedIn in big way
initially to promote HeadHonchos to lure candidates into their database. They work on the
candidate-drive pricing model and provide premier level services to candidates from
consulting perspective.





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BUSINESS MODEL OF THE JOB PORTALS







CV REGISTRATION/
PAID SERVICES







PAID SERVICES

















COMPANIES/
EMPLOYERS
PLACEMENT
CONSULTANTS
PORTAL
JOB SEEKERS
REVENUE
REVENUE
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Such a kind of business model is a cross between the brokeage model and the advertising
model.
Every job portal has a revenue model from the beginning. There is direct flow of revenue
for the services rendered to the customers.
The job portals are not just in the business of online recruitment advertising. Infact it is in
the business of providing a match between the job seeker (who is looking for a career) and
the employer ( who is looking for the right candidate) using an online medium.
Thus these portals are into recruitment advertising- advertising that communicates the
availability of a position or a job designed to recruit staff of any kind.
The revenue is earned in three ways:
Job seekers: They for services like upgradration of CVs and similar services
Consultants: They pay for buying database for any particular job profile
Employers: They pay for buying database of candidates or for posting a job and
other services like SMS subscription packs and refreshing the jobs.














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GENERAL PROCESS OF RECRUITMENT THROUGH JOB
PORTALS
A general recruitment through portals is as follows:
Identify current needs of employment in the organization.
Posting the advertisement of job vacancy on board (online).
Managing the response i.e. Applicant database.
Short listing of applicants according to the job specification.
Arranging and conducting online interviews (by chatting, video conferencing etc).
Decision making regarding further progress.

There are two key areas where the minimum requirements of the service and functionality
are essential to the success of this type of recruitment system.

Candidate should be able to:
Build and maintain their profile and CV.
Personalized about their requirements or interests.
Apply for online vacancies and openings.
Attach resumes, cover letters and academic documentation.
Get informed about automated job alerts.
Accept and decline invitations to interviews.
View saved copies of all correspondence from the prospective employer in a
personalized mail section.







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Recruiters should be able to:
Handle and manage an online or email based application approval process.
Coordinate all advertising and workflow of vacancies.
Acknowledge at any stage of the recruitment process.
Filter, screen, score candidates according to application responses.
Adapt their application process for any type of recruitment contract, part time,
full time etc.
Handle and manage a real talent pool- not just a database full of previous
applicants.
Handle and manage all interviews online, with the ability of the candidate for self
schedule.
Handle and manage all communications. E.g. offers of joining.
Report on all aspects of the recruitment process easily.














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EFFICIENCY FROM THE JOB PORTAL INDUSTRY

TIME EFFICIENCY
Job portals save a lot time both for the employers and the job seekers.
It provides round the clock services.

COST EFFICENCY
There are no middle persons involved.
The work flow is not hampered as such.

QUALITY EFFICIENCY
Filters ineligible and unsuitable candidates.

ADVERTISEMENTS
Job advertisements are regularly posted on online communities like forums, blogs
and other websites.

VISIBILTY
The jobs can be visible for as many number of days depending upon the recruiter.

EVENTS
Online career events and job fairs also taking place to involve more of the job
seekers.









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HIRING TRENDS ACROSS TOP INDUSTRY SECTORS

INDUSTRY JULY
2008
APR
2009
APR
2010
APR
2011
APR
2012
JAN
2013
FEB
2013
MAR
2013
APR
2013
IT- Software
1000 698 1033 1185 1400 1455 1531 1464 1551
BPO and ITeS
1000 681 979 853 861 986 1008 1075 1156
Construction and
Engineering
1000 659 730 830 722 755 725 784 777
Auto and Auto Ancillary
1000 582 825 1100 1185 1143 1140 1079 1082
Banking and Financial
Services
1000 590 987 907 1196 1588 1386 1378 1519
Oil and Gas
1000 778 942 1001 1015 1117 1018 890 953
Telecom
1000 875 791 650 842 689 644 648 744
Insurance
1000 586 1069 514 575 597 540 495 627
Capital Goods
1000 794 996 987 1022 868 942 923 877
Pharma& Biotech
1000 1041 1062 1027 1255 1381 1455 1657 1559

No. of new jobs posted in July '08 for each industry was scaled to 1000; all months have
been compared with previous column.









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COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TOP 3 JOB PORTALS


The top three portals of India are as follows as per their rank:

1. Naukri.com
2. Monster.com
3. Timesjobs.com






Now we will analyse each of them and the services offered by each.





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Naunkri.com was launched in March 1997. It was the first company to enter the job portal
industry in India. Due to this it enjoys the first mover advantage and has a huge amount of
stored database.
The next brand to enter his market was Monster.com in the year of 1999. It is
aninternational company which stared its operations in India in 2003 thereby becoming the
next big name after Naukri.
The third major player in this industry was Timesjob.com which was a late entrant in the
industry in the year of 2004.
Many other companies became a part of this industry but eventually they were late entrants
and thus were unable to grab the market share. The major market share is grabbed by the
above top three brands and have been there for a long time having their own unique
database and stored contacts.
More or less all the companies offer the same kind of services yet the differentiating
factors lies with the new innovative kinds of services and features provided by these
portals and the database of several candidates that they have. Since Naukri was the first
player in this industry therefore it has a larger database compared to the others. But the
services offered by them are almost same with different names except afew.
The report will proceed with such changes and differences in the respective top three
companies and the new features and services that they are offering and innovations that are
being brought in by them.

Let us have a look at the database of these top three brands.

















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Naukri.com searches job based on the following parameters:
Browse Jobs by Functional Area/Department
Browse Jobs by Industry/Sector
Jobs by Locations
Jobs by Industries
Jobs by Companies
Jobs by Designations
Jobs by Skills
Jobs in Top Cities
Jobs in States/Union Territories and Cities across India
Jobs in International Locations

Timesjobs.com searches jobs on the following parameters:
Jobs in the Following Area of Specialization
IT Software Jobs
Sales Business Development Jobs
Marketing Jobs
IT Hardware Jobs
Customer Service Jobs
Finance Jobs
Jobs by Function
Jobs by Location
Jobs by Designation
Jobs by Education
Government Jobs
Jobs by city
Gulf jobs
Jobs by Function
Advertising jobs

Monster.com searches jobs on the following parameters:
Jobs as per job title
Jobs as per location
Jobs in US
Jobs as per key skills
Jobs as per industry
Jobs as per company

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Monster has over a million job postings at any time and over 1 million resume in the
database (2008) and over 63 million job seekers per month. The company employs
approximately 5,000 employees in 36 countries. Its headquarters are in New York, NY,
United States.

As of March 31, 2011 Naukri.com had a database of about 33 million registered job
seekers and over 80,000 live job listings from Corporate Customers. During the Fiscal year
2010-11 Naukri.com serviced approximately 42,000 Corporate Customers, an average of
about 12,000 resumes were added while about 72,000 were modified daily in the
Naukri.com database in Fiscal year 2010-11.

Timesjob has a database of more than 26 million with over 20000 new resumes added
everyday and 25000 client base as of present. It has got its alliance with Zoom Tv, Times
Now and Indiatimes.

The database of Timesjob is known as Hire Excess.
The database of Naukri is known as Resdex.

The job validity after posting a job is 30days for Naukri and Monster whereas the validity
for Timesjob is 60 days.
The reason for monster being in the s4econd position is that it being a global company
focuses more on the countries abroad than in India. If compared only in Indian market then
Naukri stands first but if compared globally then Monster is way ahead than Naukri.















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GRAPH FOR NAUKRI:


GLOBAL RANK- 427
RANK INDIA- 39

COUNTRY PERCENT OF VISITORS RANK IN COUNTRY
INDIA 95.5% 39
USA 0.8% 16272



Search Traffic
What percentage of visits to this site come from a search engine?




Search Visits
9.30% 35.00%




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MONSTER:
How popular is monster.com?
Alexa Traffic Ranks
How is this site ranked relative to other sites



Global Rank
606 72
Rank in United States
155

COUNTRY PERCENT OF VISITORS RANK IN COUNTRY
INDIA 5.7% 912
USA 78.8% 155
INDONESIA 1.3% 958
CANADA 1.2% 1366
NETHERLANDS 1.1% 751

Where do monster.com's visitors come from?
Search Traffic
What percentage of visits to this site come from a search engine?
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Search Visits
16.50% 22.00%


TIMESJOBS:
How popular is timesjobs.com?

Alexa Traffic Ranks
How is this site ranked relative to other sites?

Global Rank
2,262 84
Rank in India
167




COUNTRY PERCENT OF VISITORS RANK IN COUNTRY
INDIA 94.5% 167
USA ` 1 1.2%
41342

Where do timesjobs.com's visitors come from?

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Search Traffic
What percentage of visits to this site come from a search engine?

Search Visits
12.80% 12.00%
THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SERVICES OFFERED BY
THE RESPECTIVE COMPANIES

All the companies- Naukri, Monster and Timesjob offer similar kinds of services with
different names.

Let us have a look at the different kinds of services offered by these three companies.

NAUKRI:

For candidates:

Registration: Become a Member of Naukri.com and find the right job.
Search jobs: job search by using any parameters like by location, by industry
etc.
Email and phone alerts: related information shared via mail and messages.
Resume writing: Get our experts to write your resume
Visual resume: Our innovative Visual CV enhances your text resume by adding
key highlights of your experience in a visually appealing manner.
Resume Quality Score: Know where your resume quality stands
amongst others for FREE.
Sample Resume for Freshers: verify and check sample CVs and design
according to it.
Naukri Background Check: Make your profile credible and stand a better
chance of getting shortlisted.
Create/Manage Profile: maintain your profile and edit the way you want.


For recruiters:
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Job Posting: What features does the Job Posting have?
Job posting subscription with Naukri.com, brings more than just a form. Additional
features help you post your job easily, manage your job openings conveniently and
manage responses being received efficiently.
Auto- Fill: You can select previously posted jobs to fill details while posting a new
job. The option is available on the job posting form itself.
Auto-Save: Details being entered by you are saved every few minutes to ensure that
data is not lost during loss in network connections or in case of session time-out.
The draft can be recovered from Manage Jobs section from the Drafts Tab.
Auto-Refresh: Allows you to set a frequency for refreshing your job postings on the
site. Refreshing your job increases its visibility on the site for 30 more days from
the date of refresh. Refreshing is not allowed in case you have single job posting
subscription.
Resume Database: Resdex is Naukri.com's Resume Database Access. Naukri.com
has acquired a large database of over 36.7 million jobseekers across industries,
functions, locations and experience levels.
Branding solutions and namelinks: selling space for branding by displaying logo of
the companies. The name of several companies are displayed. Naukri charges extra
for this.



















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MONSTERJOBS.COM:

Job Posting: Advertise your job to millions of job seekers and get qualified
responses the same day!
Power Resume Search: Match people with your jobs faster and better than ever
before.
Job Bolding: Make your job posting stand out from the crowd.
Job Refresh: Recharge your job postings. Launch your job posting to the top of the
job listings to increase visibility.
Career Ad Network: Turn your job posting into an online recruitment ad and reach
targeted candidates across Monster's vast network of thousands of sites.
TargetPost: Connect instantly with local skilled, hourly and administrative
candidates. Choose from over 300 job titles.
Target Slot: A flexible, one-year solution to fill your ongoing skilled, hourly and
administrative hiring needs. Choose from over 300 job titles. Repost existing or
new jobs every 30 days.
Veteran Job Posting: Attract the best veteran talent with a premium job posting on
Military.com.
Veteran Career Ad Network :Reach even more military talent by advertising your
job posting on sites where veterans spend their time.
Candidate Spotlight: Get qualified candidates for your job postings instantly!
Monster Complete Job Posting:Access the biggest talent pool by posting jobs on
Monster.com, Military.com, and a variety of diversity websites.
Monster Newspaper Posting: Combine online and print recruiting. Advertise your
job in the Sunday edition of a leading newspaper!
Monster Diversity Products: Diversify your workforce. Attract new talent.
Enhanced Job Branding: Use Enhanced Job Branding to reinforce your company's
image and make your job postings stand out from the competition.
Social Recruiting Solution: Establish your recruitment presence on Facebook and
Twitter and showcase your open positions.
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Monster Communities: Extend your reach to active and passive seekers on targeted
communities where like-minded people connect.
Training: Get the most from your Monster tools. Use Monster Training to make
sure you get the best return on your Monster investment.
Talent Management Suite: Get a comprehensive suite of pre-hire and post-hire
solutions to help you accomplish your talent management objectives.
Video Profile: Tell your company story and drive more candidates to your positions
with an engaging, powerful, high quality video.
TargetMail: Use targeted emails to drive job seekers to your job postings,
recruitment events, local hiring events, and new store openings!
Monster Media Solutions: Reach the most qualified candidates with strategically
placed, targeted ads on Monster.com. Standard reporting included.
Monster Job Wrapping: Post jobs on Monster directly from your company's career
site!
Business Gateway: Integrate your systems with Monster to allow automated,
efficient, and convenient access to Monster's products.
Monster Evolutions: Help your former employees land on their feet and stay
connectedwith you and with each other.
HR Vendor Alliance Program: Use our partnerships to your advantage. Streamline
your recruiting process.
while saving time and money.
Company Profiles:Give job seekers an easy and quick way to get an overview of
your company.














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TIMESJOBS.COM:

Job Postings Solutions- WIZ jobs:You can subscribe for Region Specific Database.
IntelliFilters - Filter and send only desired job responses in your email inbox
CustomQ- Help you gain add-on candidate information by applying customized
questions to your job postings.
IntelliSeek- Help you search and find relevant and best matching job applications
against your job.
Print Combo - Print Job Listings is an innovative service, with which you can get
double advantage for your Job Listings. With Print Job Listings, you get online job
postings on TimesJobs and Job Listing in Print. You can choose to publish your job
listing in any of the "The Times of India Group Publications" along with online Job
Posting on TimesJobs.com.
HireXS- Get access to the most active database of online resumes. Our robust
search engine help you automatically filter through millions of resumes, quickly
zero in on the best candidates for your business and start interviewing right away!
Divine-IT: A unique Search Tool, driven by Dynamic Semantic Search, that helps
you get 50% more number of Relevant IT Resumes.
Divine-IP: An innovative search platform that helps you Head-hunt Passive &
Exclusive candidates (who may not be active on job portals) from across the web.
Flexi HireXS- Choose the product as per your requirement; use our database at
ultra low costs with the flexibility of using your number of days anytime within the
validity.
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Xpress Hire- Xpress Hire enables recruiters to send SMS to targeted candidates at
a single click. With this service even multiple candidates can be contacted at one go
and you can receive their responses and applications.
Visibilty Services-
Banners: By having your company banners displayed on the Homepage
Logos: The Hot Employers section on the homepage helps you build your
employer brand amongst jobseekers who visit TimesJobs
Name Links: By displaying your company name under Featured Employer section
on TimesJobs home page you build your employer brand amongst jobseekers
visiting our site.
Shoshkeles: With this Intelligent branding option, you can advertise your Job
Openings, Company profile or any events organised by your organisation right
there on the home page of TimesJobs.
Pop-Ups: Pop-Ups helps you achieve maximised reach among thousands of
jobseekers visiting TimesJobs.
Campus Direct: With Campus Direct, you get the opportunity to advertise about
your educational institution among millions of talented prospective professionals.

For candidates:

Explore Career Options search for jobs depending pon parameters like Company,
Industry, Skills etc.
JobBuzz Career related information, news regarding industries and companies,
company reviews and salaries offered, insights and news of market and industries
etc.
Step Ahead:
Improve Resume: Guidance on improving resume writing and viewing samples of
resumes for national and international jobs.
Maximize Reach: Reach out to maximum recruiters and maximizing the resume
reach.
Profile highlighter: Highlighting the profile among the recruiter search results.
Job seek: Preparing for the interviews and job search management.
Profile Verification: offer verification on profile credentials like Highest
education, Current employment and Previous employment.
Career Astrology: The expert astrologers assess the influence of key houses and
planets to revel how they affects your career. By analyzing your planetary positions
and vedic charts, they help you in making better decisions, and provide remedies to
achieve career growth and success.
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Behavioral Assessment: Providing career development reports, career growth
reports and career options report.
E Learning: Banking and financial certification courses and Interview and soft
skills development courses.
JobPulse: Blogs on topics like corporate world, industry news and related data.
Job Fairs: A Job Fair presented by TimesJobs.com is a unique model where
jobseekers can meet, interact and interview with several top employers under one
roof that serves as a dual advantage.
Mobile alerts: Sending notifications via sms or mails.


It is all these services provided by the respective portals that creates a differentiating edge.
Moreover the price plays an important factor in this case.
Naukri and Monster being the premium job portals charge comparatively a higher price
compared to that of Timesjob. Times being pretty much new to the industry charges low
and provides added benefits in order to earn the market share.





Significant Facts : TimesJobs.com:
o Ranked No.1 on 'Total Unique Visitors' fifth time since December 2010 (as
per comScoreInc* reports for Dec '10, Jan '11, Mar '11, Apr '11 and
May'11)
o Ahead of Naukri.com by 2 lac Unique Visitors in May, 2011
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o 40% ahead of Monsterindia.com on 'Total Unique Visitors'
o 'Total Visits' grew by 27% from April, 2011 to May, 2011
o 'Total Unique Visitors have grown 16% from Apr, 2011 to May, 2011













According to Alexa.com, naukri.com got the traffic rank of 21 and monsterindia.com with
rank 58. The number of potential employers in naukri.com is greater than
monsterindia.com and also naukri.com is more than 12years old in India which has huge
database.
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THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

As we have seen about the industry analysis and the companies existing in this industry, it
seems that the industry will perform well in the long run only if there are no economic
pressures on it like that of depression, poverty etc which ultimately leads to lack of jobs in
the country.
But even if the companies keeps on doing well then it should also keep in mind the relative
competitions that it is already facing from other sectors like:
Social Media like Linked in
Campus Recruitments
Internal Referrals
Print Advertisements
Consultants
Nowadays people depend more on social sites for recruitment like that of LinkedIn and
Facebook which is major threat to these job portals. Keeping all those factors in mind the
Job portals should start creating its own value and differentiation in order to compete with
its distant competitors instead of competing amongst others.
More focus should be brought in to the rural market as it is a huge market which is still
very much untouched and can be tapped. Great opportunities lies in the rural markets. The
major advantage of the portals are that it provides numerous facilities apart from
recruitment possibilities and this should be marketed properly.
Infact the scams linked to these portals should be taken care. There are many a times when
database hacking have been tried by asking clients to give their mail ids or sending
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fraudulent mails and asking for passwords. A similar incident had happened earlier with
the clients of Naukri and Timesjob. Infact it also in news that the huge amount of the
database of Monster were being hacked.

If one can tatctfully deal with the pre-existing problems and create their own
differentitating edge specially in the Indian economy then it will surely step out ahead and
prove its worth. If Monster tries to concentrate more on the Indian market then may be it is
possible that it may eat up Naukris share.
And yet the future depends upon certain environmental factors of the economy which
needs to be taken care of.























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