Naukri.com
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| Type of business | Public |
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Type of site
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Job search engine |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | March 1997 |
| Headquarters | Noida, India |
| Founder(s) | Sanjeev Bikhchandani |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products | Resume Database, Job Postings, Branding Solutions, e-Apps, Career Site Manager, Cloud Products |
| Services | Online Recruitment |
| Employees | 1001-5000 |
| Slogan(s) | "India's No.1 Job Portal" |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 640 (Feb 2017[update]) |
| Registration | Required |
| Current status | Active |
Naukri.com is an Indian job portal operating in India founded in March 1997.
Naukri.com was founded by Indian businessman Sanjeev Bikhchandani, who started Info Edge (India) in 1995. As of Dec 2016 Naukri.com had a database of about 49.5 million registered job seekers and an average of about 11,000 resumes were added daily while about 130,000 resumes were modified daily during the Fiscal year 2013-14. During the Fiscal year 2013-14, 51,000 corporate customers (including hiring consultants/firms) paid Naukri.com for services like database access, advertising / listing on the site amongst others.
Naukri.com is one of the core businesses of Info Edge India. According to comscore, it leads the online job market with 70% traffic share. The website has 40 million resumes registered.
Naukri.com was launched in March 1997. The company was started as a floorless employment exchange. It was a database of resume, jobs and recruitment consultants. Conceived as a platform of jobseekers and hiring managers meet, the services went commercial in October 1997.
It all started when Sanjeev Bikhchandani quit his corporate job at Hindustan Milkfood Manufacturers (now Glaxo Smithkline) and founded two companies- Info Edge and Indmark. Info Edge offered salary reports to various categories of college graduates such as engineering and MBAs. Salary reports were sold to companies, somewhere between 5000 to 10,000 INR. Sanjeev and his business partners at Info Edge operated from servants’ quarter located in Sanjeev’s home.
In 1991, The Department of Telecom (DoT) advertised for videotext services. Info Edge submitted the business plan to DoT and it was shortlisted. Reasons undisclosed, the department cancelled the pilot project. This was a setback and Sanjeev and his business partner parted ways. His partner took Indmark and he was left in charge of Info Edge.
During a visit to an IT fair at Delhi’s fair ground (Pragati Maidan), he was drawn to a stall written WWW Curious, Sanjeev found more about how the Internet worked. Internet was new in India in the 90s. He took help from his brother Sushil who was residing in the US to hire a server. The server was hired at a monthly rent of $25 and Sanjeev gave 5 per cent share in his company to his brother.
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