Naukri review: India's job board, with paid extras for job seekers

Naukri is a job board for India. By its own account it is the leading job site in the country. Companies and recruitment consultants post their jobs there, and job seekers search, keep a profile and apply for free. On top of that it sells paid services to job seekers, such as more visibility for their profile.

Who Naukri is for

Naukri suits anyone looking for work in India who wants to search and also be found by recruiters. The paid extras are optional. Searching and applying cost nothing, and Naukri says it never asks job seekers for money to apply or to get an interview.

What Naukri offers

• Job search by skills, job title or company, with place, experience and salary.
• Profile with your CV, shown to the recruiter when you apply.
• Job alerts and suggestions for similar jobs, with an account.
• Application status: whether your application was sent, viewed, downloaded or shortlisted.
• Paid services such as resume writing, a featured display of your profile to recruiters and highlighted applications.

Who pays for what

Job seekers

Nothing for searching, the profile and applying. Extras such as resume writing and more visibility are paid

Employers

Can post a job for free with limited reach, or pay for job postings with more visibility and for searching the CV database

How to apply

Register and fill in your profile, then use the apply button on a listing. Your profile goes to the recruiter, who may ask you to answer a questionnaire. Applying without registering also works, but then you fill in a long form each time. You can follow the status of each application on the site.

Where the listings come from

The jobs on Naukri are posted there by companies and recruitment consultants. They can post for free with limited reach, or pay for postings that are shown more widely. By its own account, Naukri checks free job posts before they go live. That makes Naukri a place listings start from, not a copy of other sites.