Naukri com to host a two day Job Fair in Chandigarh on October 6th and 7th `07
Released on: October 5, 2007, 1:15 am
Press Release Author: Info Edge (India) Ltd.
Industry: Internet & Online
Press Release Summary: 25 Companies are participating at the fair, and over 2000 jobs are on offer!
Press Release Body:
Chandigarh, 4th October, 2007: After the grand success of Naukri.com Job Fairs in Ahmedabad, Pune and Chennai, Naukri.com, India's No. 1 Job Site brings to Chandigarh, the perfect platform for job seekers to interact with recruiters and explore the limitless job opportunities floating in the market today. The Naukri.com - Job Fair in Chandigarh will be held on 6th and 7th October, 2007 at Hotel Shivalik View, Sector-17.
Speaking on the initiative, Mr. Hitesh Oberoi, COO, Info Edge (India) Ltd said, "Chandigarh is a great academic destination with a good education infrastructure. The job market in Chandigarh has been growing across sectors and offers excellent opportunities for candidates with varied skill sets. IT, ITeS, Engineering, Pharma, Real Estate, Insurance, Banking are some of the high growth areas that have an ever increasing appetite for talent. The Naukri.com Job Fair will be a perfect platform for companies to select the best match for their hiring requirements."
An assortment of jobs ranging from Software Engineers, Senior Developers, Web Developers, Operations Support Engineer, QA, Sales, HR, Call Centre, Logistics, Finance, Business Development Managers are on offer at the Job Fair. Thus the Naukri.com job fair will have openings for freshers, junior level executives, experienced mid level professionals and managers. The Job fair will also help companies to build their candidate databases for future requirements.
25 top companies have partnered with Naukri.com in this job fair and they will hire talent across industries. The lead sponsor for the fair is HCL and other participating companies include Five Rivers, Ducat, Symbiosis Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd., EXL, Webtek software, HSBC, Vigent Info, Red Alkemi, Netsoft, Vision Unlimited, Maersk, The Shapers, Masscomedia, Bebo Technologies, ATS, Max New York Life, Soft Prodigy, The United Group, SQC Infotech, Kotak insurance, Info Edge, Zenith Infotech, Jobsagar, Bose .
The Chandigarh Job Fair is part of the first phase of Naukri.com job fairs in the country. Prior to this, Naukri had organized Job Fairs in Ahmedabad, Pune and Chennai and witnessed an overwhelming response from job seekers as well as companies. Over 17,000 candidates walked in during the two days in Ahmedabad, Pune and Chennai received over 50000 people at the fair. The participating companies made over 750 spot offers and almost 13000 interviews were scheduled over the next 2-3 weeks.
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. Formerly an ICICI Ventures investee company, it has attracted investments from leading venture capitalists, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, apart from completing a successful IPO in November 2006.
Naukri.com is a recruitment platform that 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 80000 job listings live at any point, Naukri.com serviced over 27000 corporate clients in the past year.
The company has over 1200 people operating through 57 offices in 32 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai. Naukri.com has recently been revamped and a host of new user friendly features have been added to the site, backed by Web2.0 technologies and features. For more details log on to href=http://www.naukri.com>http://www.naukri.com and href=http://www.infoedge.in>http://www.infoedge.in