Ever wondered what Crawling is all about, here, at Naukri? Why don't we just use any generic crawler or Why do we even crawl in the first place? We crawl jobs posted in the career sections of companies, to ease the pain of Recruiters. Instead of posting jobs manually, we help recruiters by pulling jobs  programmatically from their career sections. The crawler crawls jobs from websites based on client requests. Now, a bit about Crawling :- A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. We do not need to... Read More

In web development, page load time is the key to make your users happy. According to an analysis on page load time by Kissmetrics, it has been found that page load time directly affects the abandonment of your page. This well explains how critical it is to maintain a low page load time.                   Referred from infographic of Kissmetrics analysis on How Loading Time Affects Your Bottom Line Recently, we observed that one of the pages in the Recruiter’s site was taking a lot of time to load, which indeed was a matter of concern, considering that the page had a large... Read More

These days, recruiters are flooded with resumes. Some of them are good, some of them are great, and some of them are just plain bad. Due to thousands of resumes or may be lakhs in some cases, recruiter may have to face multiple challenges during the initial shortlisting/screening process. Few of the challenges are - If you are sourcing from Internet, you will get thousands of resume for a single position. - Generally recruiters also has their own database but may not be search-able because they are just word document on there hard drive. - It is difficult to match the job description with... Read More

In continuation to our first article on WebP “Optimizing web pages using WebP”, we have extended our approach to display WebP images with the help of CSS background. As we earlier stated that Naukrigulf.com is one of the first few sites on the web to use WebP images format to serve banners. Now we are serving our background images in WebP format as well. In this approach we have two solutions to call background WebP images. - Using CSS Parent-Child Relationship - Using @ queries. CSS Parent-Child Relationship - In this approach we have to check user's browser and assign a class... Read More

At Naukri.com our goal is help our users find best jobs any time any where. Users can search jobs on our website as well as they receive job alerts as per their requirements. We send close to 25 crore emails on a monthly basis to our users. As a result, email deliverability is very important for the success of our business. Keeping that in mind let us see what email deliverability is and what are the factors that may affect the delivery of an email. Email Deliverability is a way to measure the success at which an email marketer gets a campaign into subscribers' inboxes. It involves... Read More

“A picture is worth thousand words” --Napoléon Bonaparte When it comes to web page optimization. Decreasing the image size on your web page make a big difference as it's the major chunk that consume user bandwidth. According to data from HTTP Archive( http://httparchive.org/ ) For an average web page, image accounts for ... 63% of the transferred bytes for desktop sites 69 % of the transferred bytes for mobile sites. Source: http://httparchive.org/ And the bad news is, its increasing over time.The reason is increasing Hi Dpi devices over time. Source:... Read More

 Open Source Culture is one of the best things that came up in the software industry so far. We are seamlessly growing much faster in the field just because high end software like apache, mysql, nginx, nodejs, linux, etc. are available to use and reprogram as per our needs for free. But the thing is, it works only when people like us contribute to the community. Most of the programmers want to contribute to open source but they think it as difficult and time consuming. They assume that to make an effective contribution they need a big project and unlimited free time. This is not true at... Read More

 “Automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency”. With this moto JobsAdNetwork was picked up. We had our team doing marketing via Ads. And they had been doing that manually. Process took a no of steps for each Ad to be posted - Decide type of ad. - Template design. - Linking to our website (different urls). - Posting group Ads (Multiple links in single Ad) was more difficult. Due to the manual process involved the team was able to post very few ads. Also these ads were very generic in nature. So we thought, why shouldn't we simplify things and... Read More

We, at Naukri.com, believe in continuous learning along with the product development. While working on similar projects, an engineer, at some point of time feels his knowledge is limited, that there is not enough technology information in his life. The tech talks are small informal presentations that help us stay updated with existing and new engineering trends and implement new things in the right way. And as they are internal, the experience that comes from speakers aligns directly with projects.     Why we need Tech Talks 1. Stay Updated - We need to stay updated with emerging... Read More

This blog is in continuation to the part1 of the series - ATS@naukri.com. In part1, we discussed, what is an ATS and what challenges are faced in sharing responses across ATSs. Here we present the solution we have built to tackle this problem Solution: We have built a generic, robust, scalable and efficient system, wherein we can support a varied number of connection methods following different protocols, needing different inputs in different formats at different time intervals. This system is still in its early stages. If a client comes with requirements which we never encountered or... Read More