MUMBAI: Info Edge (India) Ltd, which owns Naukri.com, has announced the launch of a career guidance website asknaukri.com wherein users can get expert opinion on career needs across the work life span of a user.
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asknaukri.com has been launched as a free to use website, and it will provide calibrated counseling to all work related queries for its users which is relevant, researched, and customized. The website hopes to fill a gap and act as a source of ratification and provide counseling on all related areas. It allows users to submit their queries online, which are then directed to the panelists. He can also read questions posted by other users in similar areas, thus ensuring that his overall knowledge of areas in which he has questions increases dramatically. |
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The answers to the queries will be posted on the website within 48 hours, and an email will be sent to the user‘s inbox. To make the exercise more comfortable, the queries have been categorized into relevant clusters like ‘Career Guidance‘, ‘Interviews & Resumes‘ and ‘Office Advice‘ which are further classified in to relevant categories.
Soon asknaukri.com will also get mobile enabled and will allow users to ask questions from their mobile. Replies will be sent to the user on his mobile, email and also get posted on the website. Richa Saklani, Aarti Anand and Sujata Kumra of ‘Workeasy Solutions‘ are the panelists for the website who are alumni of IIM, Ahmedabad, Narsee Monjee and the University of Chicago respectively. They have experience of over 30 years of industry experience in media, banking, human resources, financial services and the outsourcing sector. The team of Workeasy Solutions has worked with over 5,000 people across various ages in career planning, interview training, career transitions and corporate culture. |
Naukri.com founder and CEO Sanjeev Bikhchandani said, "We have been leaders in the recruitment space and it is natural that we would want to own the user experience pre and post recruitment. Career guidance is a natural progression, and with asknaukri.com (as our first step) we want to emerge as the definitive face of career guidance in India."
Mobility, ad sales and investments VP and national head Apoorva Kumar said, "Everyone has career and work related questions throughout their lives and are looking for advice they can trust. Career guidance and ‘work life issues‘ is a huge unorganized industry and asknaukri.com is one small initiative from our end to create exponential value in the career guidance business in the long run."
