Naukri plans educational site

Naukri.com, a website owned by Info edge, a publicly listed company, has recently declared that they are working on a education related website. Though no further details were given. But it is heard that they are going to move towards education networking, whatever that means. Sanjeev Bhikhchandani, CEO of Naukri.com said in an interview that

In another 12 months, we plan to launch a new website for the education space. Like all our other sites, we would only facilitate the networking between people interested in any kind educational exchange platform.

Naukri.com has also recently conducted some job fairs quite successfully. The first two were held in Ahmedabad and Pune.

Naukri.com moves to RHE

Naukri.com is the leading online job portal in India.

Vibhore Sharma, senior VP, with naukri.com says

Once the challenges centered around business growth and building up the website to handle the scale of visitors, a reliable and robust technology platform became imperative. The key was also to ensure that the TCO for any technology option chosen was realized. At the same time, we were focused about innovating and rolling out new products and services to a large base of users.

The growth of Naukri.com has been phenomenal, and recently they have moved to Web 2.0 technologies. Though they are a little late, but what the heck, they are getting there. The company has also recently moved to red had enterprise edition.

Mr Sharma added,

The greatest challenge for any organization is to roll out new products and services in the shortest possible time frames. With the right platform, the development time gets shorter, turnaround times are quicker, and companies can work on innovations much faster. To us, Red Hat offered a solution which was reliable, scalable, and cost-effective - 3 critical attributes for the kind of business challenges that we were looking to address.

They use the Intel Xeon servers

The Naukri Makeover

Naukri.com, India's leading job portal, has recently got a makeover. They have introduced UI changes for the job seeker section. They claim that the new site, will help people get more value from the website, with relevant information being visible easily.

It is heard that they have improved the search and the organization of data on their servers and are moving towards better interaction with their users. News search filters called 'clusters' allows user to search different options.

The uploading resumes part has also been improved and it is quite fast now.