Online Job Search Engine SimpyHired launched its India site today, punctuated by the launch of sites for other countries like UK, Australai and Canada. The site claims to provide access to over 1.5 million jobs from job portals across these four countries. [via release]
This allows users to compare job openings across portals. Note that a few years ago, Info Edge had sent job aggregator Bixee.com a legal notice for indexing job listings from Naukri.com. Bixee was later bought by MIH India, and has since morphed into a vertical search engine. Other job search engines in India include TolMol Jobs, and Recruit.net. Web18 owned In.com also has classifieds search, but has surprisingly opted out of having a job search.
At present, SimplyHired aggregates jobs from a number of job sites – Monster, Naukri, Jobstreet, Naukrihub, Naukri2000, IndiaStudyChannel, 123oye.com, Vyoms.com, FirstSalary.com and CareerBuilder India. Some of these sites, I haven’t even heard of before. Simplyfired SimplyHired essentially lists relevant jobs by recency. I tried a 3 seaches, and scanned quite a few listings – conspicuous by their absense are BCCL owned Timesjobs.com and Consim Info’s ClickJobs.com. Are there no fresh job postings on TimesJobs or ClickJobs to speak of, or is SimplyHired not indexing their results?
The timing: perhaps this is an opportune time to launch a job search – we’ve been hearing about people being asked to leave, and at times, salaries delayed or not paid in full. Tough times for job seekers, and companies as well.
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“Simplyfired essentially lists relevant jobs…”
Nikhil, is the type deliberate as you say
“we’ve been hearing about people being asked to leave, and at times, salaries delayed or not paid in full…” :-)
I meant ‘typo’
Heh…not a deliberate typo, but while typing this, I was thinking – “Hey, why not a site called Simplyfired”, wherein people can give details of the situation in their organization. We’ve not been able to confirm the retrenchment…so an anonymous site, perhaps.
So, because I was simultaneously thinking about SimplyFired, the typo. :) Not intentional.
Nikhil, looks like your wish has been granted :-)
check out http://www.simplyfired.com/
SimplyHired’s biggest win was probably when they got integrated with LinkedIn’s job search. It’s good to see a good job aggregator. I hope job sites won’t be dumb enough to send them legal notices.
Jeet – I wonder if that’s a threat to all the job sites they’re indexing. In fact, was going to include that in the post.
My friend who worked for clickjobs say that customers are call him to ask why no response to job posting? why no CV in search? guess why simply hired is not indexing the fake jobs site!
@Nikhil – If you remember, google news faced similar criticism, today they are probably one of the biggest source of traffic for news websites.
Air ticketing / insurance quotes aggregators will fall in same category.
Just responding to all comments by searching for my name on your blog :))