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Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Hitesh Oberoi, COO, Info Edge (India) Ltd said, Chennai, one of the hottest job markets in India, responded very well to the jobfair. The first day alone witnessed a footfall of over 28000 people and it wasinteresting to see that about 30% of jobseekers were experienced, ranging from 2-12years. Going forward, we plan to make Job Fairs a regular affair and cover variousother cities in the country as well.
The Chennai Job fair was a multi industry job fair, with participating companiesfrom IT-ITeS, Publishing, Finance, Real Estate, Hospitality, Pharma, Shipping,Research, Media, Consumer Durables, Education and many others. There was acontinuous flow of professionals at the Job Fair, from freshers to 12 years ofexperience, interviewed by companies on the spot. An assortment of jobs rangingfrom Software Engineers, Senior Developers, Web Developers, Operations SupportEngineer, QA to Sales, HR, Call Centre, Logistics were on offer, and the recruitersfound appropriate talent to suit their requirements.
Commenting on the Naukri.com Job Fair, Mr.Sadguna, AGM, Talent Management Group,HCL Technologies Ltd. said, We are extremely glad and surprised to see thephenomenal turnout of quality candidates, despite the long weekend and similarevents happening in Chennai on the same day. We are thankful to Naukri.com formobilizing thousands of prospective job seekers for their first ever job fair inChennai. On the first day itself, we selected 91 candidates.
Our business relationship with Naukri had always helped us in identifying andhiring genuine talent. Naukri s constant and continuous efforts in bringing theright talent to meet organizational needs is a major contribution to the IT industryas a whole. The Naukri.com job fair conducted in Chennai has helped us inidentifying good number of candidates for our critical business requirements saidShantharam.V, Senior Manager, Human Resources, Hexaware Technologies.
Sriram, an IT professional from Chennai said that I am extremely thankful toNaukri.com. The fair is a good opportunity for people who are searching for jobs, asthey get to interact with many companies under one roof.
HCL, Fedby, Hexaware were the sponsors for the fair. Other participants were ICSComputing, Lister Technologies, Bosch, Ciber, Allsec Technologies, Zenta, USTechnology, Logic CMG, Cybernet Slash Support, LG Soft, Atheros, Cambridge, BAContinuum, Info Edge, EMAS, Dexterity, N-Tier, Cadilla, Dhanus BPO, Sutherland,Fidelity, SPS, Pyramid, Market Tools, DSRC, DLF Hotels, Country Club, Ford, APMoller Maersk, Exclusive Search.
The Chennai Job Fair is part of the first phase of Naukri.com job fairs in thecountry. Prior to this, Naukri had organized Job Fairs in Ahmedabad (on 18th & 19thAug 07) and Pune (on 1st & 2nd Sep 07) and witnessed an overwhelming response fromjob seekers as well as companies. Over 17,000 candidates walked in during the twodays in Ahmedabad while Pune received over 50000 people at the fair. Theparticipating companies made over 750 spot offers and almost 7000 interviews werescheduled over the next 2-3 weeks. Naukri will hold a job fair in Chandigarh on 6-7October.
About Naukri.comNaukri.com, India s No. 1 job site and the flagship brand of Info Edgerevolutionized the concept of recruitment in India. Since its inception in 1997,Naukri.com has seen exponential growth year after year. Formerly an ICICI Venturesinvestee company, it has attracted investments from leading venture capitalists,Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, apart from an IPO inNovember 2006.
Naukri.com is a recruitment platform and provides services to the corporateworld, placement agencies and job seekers in India and overseas. It offers a bouquetof products like Resume Database Access, and Response Management tools and itsservices include Job Postings, and branding solutions on the site. With 80000 joblistings live at any point, Naukri.com serviced over 27000 corporate clients in thepast year.
The company has over 1200 people operating through 57 offices in 32 cities inIndia and overseas offices in Dubai. Naukri.com has recently been revamped and ahost of new user friendly features have been added to the site, backed by Web2.0technologies. For more details log on to http://www.naukri.com and http://www.infoedge.in
