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4Aug By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

Work from home Job Search rise over 400% in India

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many jobs have rapidly become work-from-home jobs at least temporarily and with the flexibility and a variety of career options, it has become more popular than ever, global job site Indeed said in a report. The job postings grew in sectors such as software technology, healthcare and marketing, while opportunities for delivery person and IT manager saw a steady rise, it said. The report is based upon data from the Indeed platform from February to July. Employers are beginning to notice the benefits of increased production and morale, leading to more opportunities for work-from-home and remote jobs, it noted. According to the data, job searches for work from home in India have surged over 442 percent between February and July, the highest globally. ...

Recruitment platform WorkIndia raises $7 million from Xiaomi

10Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

FUNDING

Recruitment platform WorkIndia raises $7 million from Xiaomi

Blue-collar recruitment platform WorkIndia has raised $7 million (Rs 42 crore) from Chinese tech major Xiaomi. Previous investors of WorkIndia who have done multiple investment rounds in the company include Beenext Pte ltd and a Japanese hedge fund Asuka Investments among others, the company said. In less than five years, the company has moved from being a technology startup to an unprecedented 2.1 crore unique app sessions per month, 1.5 crores registered job seekers and presence in 763 cities across India, it added. "The cutting edge technology developed by WorkIndia, utilising geo-positioning and dynamic algorithms, is one of the best in class that we have seen. The company has created a massive dent in the Indian blue-collar segment within a short span of time. It is inspi...

Babajob.com Joins Facebook’s SME India Council

15Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Babajob.com Joins Facebook’s SME India Council

In a significant development today, babajob.com, India's largest online job marketplace for the informal sector, was identified as a member of the SME India Council set up by Facebook in Asia-Pacific today. Facebook, which has over two million Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) on its platform, has set up a SME Council to help small ventures from various industries share feedback and discuss ideas around leveraging technology to grow their enterprise. This is the second SME Council set up by Facebook globally, the first one being in the US. Globally, over 45 million small businesses actively use Facebook pages to connect to their consumers. In a post, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg mentioned that "Babajob.com, a job site in India, which uses Internet.org's Free Basic Services app, ...

Jobsinfinit.com- Infinite Answers to Infinite Job Requirements

2Nov By RishabhNo Comments

Story

Jobsinfinit.com- Infinite Answers to Infinite Job Requirements

The world is quite large for those who explore and quite small for those who create! People often find it quite difficult when it comes to searching a service, commodity, a person or anything that they seek. With the intervention of Internet, and technically speaking with the help of Search Engines over the internet it has become quite easy to search for a commodity. Google, Bing, yahoo etc. being the leading search engines serves one such purpose. But these popular search engines, are so open and wide that they often fail to serve some regional based purposes. With the similar aim of providing easy regional job searches, comes a new startup Jobsinfinit. Pixr8 interviews a similar search engine that deals with the queries regarding the Job Search as per the user requirements and desi...