INDIA - THE NEW SILICON VALLEY ?

Dear  GK ,

I believe PEN drive containing source code of RecruitGuru.com , has been couriered to you yesterday

I am glad , Shirish Apte has been assigned this task

In the meantime , today's Hindustan Times reports :

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Online professional networking platform LinkedIn on wednesday announced the launch of LinkedIn Placements , an online Campus Recruitment product , only for the Indian market

The new platform, developed wholly in India , allows fresh graduates , recruiters and placement cells in colleges to interact with each other ONLINE , right from the end of academic programme to placements

The new product , which will be piloted immediately , is primarily meant as a value added service , to the community members in the professional network , said Ganesh Venkatsubramaniam , LinkedIn India's head of engineering

There were no immediate plans to monetize this either in India or globally , he added

The first phase of the launch will involve about 15 colleges and a possible networking of 10-15,000 graduates.

The company did not share any details on plans to scale up the usage of this product after the pilot

LinkedIn , which has around 400 million users globally , considers India , with 33 million users , its largest user-base outside the US

LinkedIn will target 6 million students who graduate every year in India , with the new product  "

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I have no clue as to the " nature of interactions / transactions " between the graduating students and the Recruiters , in this tool

May be Shirish can find out

Then compare with what I have proposed in www.OnlineJobsFair.com ( file with you )

You may also want to take a look at the following link :

http://www.freshgravity.com/about-fresh-gravity/

Fresh Gravity ( owned by Ajit Kumbhare ) is operating from Pune and was reported under " Hot Startup " section in Eco Times ( 30 Oct )

Regards ,

hcp