JobYantra distributed job-boards… good idea, wrong implementation

A few months back, I wrote this post lamenting the sheer futility of traditional job websites for startups, which inherently need employees of a certain kind. I had pointed towards the growing popularity of job boards on popular blogs (like TechCrunch, Gigaom, JoelSpolksy etc). JobYantra, a Mumbai based startup has launched an initial version of their ...

Talentty… hitting the right recuiting notes, but needs better implementation

Talentty is a recruiting website with a few good ideas up it's sleeves. It describes itself as a career matchmaking & specialized jobboard and is trying to adopt a bottoms-up approach to online recruitment. It comes from the same people who run JobMilan, a recruitment centric blog that aggregates jobs on the web and has a ...

StartupLunch…. startup hiring a la speed dating style

The team behind Proto has come up with a useful idea... it's called Startuplunch and it's meant to help startups & job seekers serenade each other before tying themselves into a hiring relationship. How is this supposed to work? Check out this excerpt from their website ".......the principle is roughly the same as the SpeedDating ...