Naukri.com
Naukri is one of India’s oldest and most popular job portals.
Starting in 1987, Naukri transformed the job hunting scene and has been helping millions of Indians find jobs every day. Besides listing jobs and making them easy to find with the help of filters the portal provides job seekers with the latest trends, career guidance, top companies actively hiring and interview questions.
Naukri.com offers a huge database of professionals (thanks to its popularity) and makes it easy for recruiters who are looking to fill multiple positions. The portal offers additional services through its Hiring Suite which assists in the end-to-end recruitment of any candidate from campus to senior levels.
Monster India
Established in 2010, Monster India is another popular job portal for job seekers and recruiters.
It provides useful search filters to show relevant job vacancies. Once registered on the portal, candidates can apply for jobs directly.
Many premium services are available for job seekers. They include resume writing, profile highlighting, career advice and tips to help land a job.
Monster India offers paid services to employers, very similar to Naukri. You can buy data, or employ their services for hiring assistance.
Shine.com
Established in 2008 and owned by HT Media Limited, Shine is a portal which relies on many media partners to bring in useful resources like hiring trends in various industry domains. Shine’s data-driven approach to jobs and hiring is its USP and has made this portal different from others.
The Shine portal contains useful resources and informative blogs to help job seekers in their pursuit.
Premium services provided by this portal include resume and cover letter writing, customized job alerts from all leading portals and profile booster.
For employers, Shine provides curated assistance. Shine caters to different types of employers including startups, SMEs and corporates.
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Indeed
Indeed is an MNC which caters to all kinds of job seekers and recruiters. Indeed provides a clutter-free job search on its homepage with two fields asking what are you looking for and where. It also lists popular searches below the main search fields.
Resources provided by this portal include reviews of companies and salary guides for various jobs.
This portal is directly or indirectly owned by Recruit Holdings Ltd, a Japanese company. The site quotes that it is the number one job site in the world based on the total number of unique visits to the site.
If you intend to hire candidates internationally, do check out Indeed.
LinkedIn is a professional networking site established in 2002. With millions of professionals actively using LinkedIn every day, it is becoming a great source for job seekers and recruiters alike.
LinkedIn offers recruiters a separate tab to post jobs and receive applications. They can also use search keywords to find suitable profiles and approach them through the platform’s chat features. Unlike other job portals, LinkedIn allows recruiters to approach professionals who are not seeking a job change actively but might get interested if a suitable opportunity is presented to them. Moreover, LinkedIn is a parallel universe, where you understand more about the potential candidates much before any interview.
Keeping a set of interview questions handy can help you build the interview questionnaires quickly.
FreshersWorld
This portal caters to fresh graduates without any work experience.
The simple search is based on keywords like company or skill, which course the candidate completed and location. Since this portal is aimed at freshers, it also provides courses for upskilling and guidance on qualifying tests conducted by many companies.
Freshersworld also provides entry-level hiring and recruitment solutions for employers. Do head over to the employers’ section to find out more about it.
JobsforHer
Jobs for Her was founded in 2015. This platform connects women career seekers to mentors, communities, upskilling, jobs and much more.
Millions of women job seekers are subscribed to this platform. It is a rich source of female candidates for recruiters, especially while trying to help the organisation build a diverse team.
TimesJobs
TimesJobs is a flagship business of Times Business Solutions owned by Times Group.
Some of the useful resources provided by this portal are JobBuzz, Company list, reviews, Salaries and blogs.
It’s a good source for government job openings too and hence gets significant viewership. Recruiters can choose from a range of data, job postings and branding solutions with TimesJobs.
Glassdoor
Glassdoor began as a site where current and former employees of a company could review their company and share salary expectations. It gave prospective candidates insights into how a company treats its employees, and what they could hope for in their journey.
Today, Glassdoor is also a job portal popular with job seekers and recruiters alike. Recruiters looking to build or improve their company brand as an employer cannot afford to be absent from Glassdoor.
Did you know your performance management process goes a long way in creating your brand as an employer?
Upwork
Upwork provides a platform where one can find short-term assignments. Since it is global, many interesting gigs are available for professionals to bid for.
If you plan to recruit freelancers in the areas of creative fields like writing, designing, etc, this is one of the best sites to find them.
