Jobs right at a click

BEHOLD! ONLINE jobseekers, here's some good news.

One Pan Asian online recruitment portal has now spread its wings to the Western job market. Through a `strategic alliance' of course.

JobsDB.com has tied-up with a US recruitment site, Headhunter.net, promising job seekers registered with it employment opportunities in the West. It has a database of about 8.5 lakh job seeker profiles and 40,000 client companies spread over 10 countries of the Asia Pacific region - Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines and Australia, apart from India. The alliance has now increased the number of client companies to more than 50,000 and the job seeker database to nearly two millions making it one of the bigger players in the global scene.

While the alliance widens the horizon of opportunities for each of the job seekers, the client companies also have a wide range of choice from the huge database of profiles in the Asia Pacific region.

``We are looking at long-term benefits out of this alliance,'' says K.C.John, Managing Director, Jobs DB India. With an increased traffic of online job seekers, the alliance promises to come out in a dominant position in online recruitment category.

The site has 2.5 lakh Indian job seekers registered of which 23 per cent are from Chennai. However, the city is next to Bangalore which has the maximum of 31 per cent job seekers registered with it. New Delhi accounts for 18 per cent job profiles, Mumbai 11 per cent and the new hi-tech city Hyderabad six per cent.

Although, the economic slowdown in the U.S. has badly hit the IT solution providers relying on servicing the dotcoms and web related technologies and has adversely effected body shoppers in India, the opportunities were not as bad in other fields. There was tremendous opportunity in the fields of third generation communication technology and intelligence systems and a huge demand for hardware design engineers, says Mr. John. ``Hence, even in immediate terms there is considerable scope for all job seekers.''

So, there is no need to lose heart. There is more in the offering, says the trend. Log on and keep flying.

By Saptarshi Bhattacharya

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