Hyperlocal Job Search Bot Jobsgaar Raises Capital from SucSEED Indovation Fund

Jobsgaar CEO - Atul Pratap Singh

Growing Jobsgaar gets SucSEED backing again

Jobsgaar Technologies Pvt Ltd, has secured an undisclosed amount in fundraise, led by SucSEED Indovation Fund, Blume Founder Fund, BlackSoil, Karekeba Ventures & other industry stalwarts have joined along in their Pre-Series A round.

Jobsgaar had earlier raised funds from SucSEED Indovation Fund in May last year.

With the motto of “Connecting workforce to 100Million #WalkToWork jobs in Bharat”, Jobsgaar aims to be India's first #CareerTech venture managing the career journey of the workforce in Bharat through world's best tech innovations. Jobsgaar is a career tech solution that manages a job seeker’s career journey while enabling them to access upskilling, lifestyle solutions, financial & banking inclusions through innovative tech solutions.

Unlike other JobTech or HRTech companies, Jobsgaar allows the workforce to find walk-to-work jobs at their native places or nearest town possible while creating an impact on inter-state migration. On the other hand, Jobsgaar is enabling local employers & companies looking to hire in tier 2 or 3 towns to find relevant talent in the shortest time possible. In the past 6 months, Jobsgaar has boarded around 150K job seekers from 15 towns of Uttar Pradesh. With over 600 employers posting around 7500 job opportunities from tier 2 or 3 towns of the state. Also, WhatsApp chatbot, which is the primary product of Jobsgaar, has bridged over 2500 candidates to the WalkToWork jobs.

Atul Pratap Singh, Co- Founder and CEO of Jobsgaar said, “The early signs from the market are exciting & ensuring that there is no dearth of job opportunities in tier 2 or 3 towns of Bharat. We as a technology company are committed to build omnichannel solutions that will bridge the void between workforce & local employers. While managing the career journey of the workforce, we aim to help them make wiser decisions. As we are a high populous country, we know that there are ample resources available to work. However, the challenge for employers lies in finding the ‘serious’ one in the shortest possible time. That is what we are building for."

He further added that “Funding raised from SucSEED Indovation Fund and such established Angel Investors will help us in escalating our solution development phase & distribution plan. We have recently rolled out our ver1.0 of the Android App for selected markets”.

Speaking on why they have invested Vikrant Varshney Co-Founder & Managing Partner of SucSEED Indovation Fund, said “As per the recent BCG report, 2.4 crore new jobs could be created in the gig blue-color space, and by 2028 this could reach around 9 crore jobs. The biggest job generators in the gig blue-collar space right now are e-commerce and logistics.

Jobsgaar connects employers with employees at the source location, enabling the workforce to find district level jobs. There is a huge TAM, SAM, SOM in this space and we wanted to back Jobsgaar again, in their formative years; as they develop world’s first district-level hyperlocal job or workforce discovery chatbot integrated into WhatsApp.”

Vikrant further added, “Since the time we funded in their first round, Jobsgaar has had a fabulous journey. They have attracted key clients like Cars 24, BLU Smart, Thyrocare, Hero, Planet PCI andsigned an agreement to assist 68K+ petrol pump owners in hiring blue-collar workforce. It is currently available in 15-20 districts of UP and now expanding to cover other 53 districts of UP & also move to Bihar. Jobsgaar is witnessing 800% growth in job seekers on the platform from 10,000 to 90,000+ job seekers with 700% growth in job listings."

Jobsgaar was started in May 2020 by Atul Pratap Singh, with a vision to create an impact on migration trends within the country & help employers seamlessly connect with workforce at their native place.

Market Potential:

The employers in these markets have to publish classifieds in vernaculars that will cost them around 15-20$ or they can hire an HR consultancy (only in tier 2 towns and not in 3 or 4) that will charge them 4-8% of total CTC of the post that stands pretty high. Also, the classified or the consultants will just get you the applications and the employers have to dive deep in filtering & shortlisting the candidate. On the other hand, Jobsgaar automates this entire process & employers will only have to speak to the shortlisted candidates & finalize.

Able Jobs, Hiring Platform for Entry-Level Talents, Raises $1.8 Mn in Funding from SAIF Partners, Y Combinator, Others

Neeraj Arora, Titan Capital and Firstcheque participated in the seed round

Able Jobs, a hiring platform for entry-level talent based out of Bangalore has raised a seed amount of $ 1.8 Mn from Saif Partners, Y Combinator, Neeraj Arora, Titan Capital and Firstcheque. Helping companies like WhiteHatJr, Bigbasket, Sharechat, hire entry level talent in the fields of sales, support and marketing, Able Jobs also offers skill development and online training courses for these young candidates.

The fresh raise will be used by the brand for acceleration of its product growth and expansion of its team. The company also plans to build state-of-the-art training products for companies to hire talent reliably and expand into adjacent sectors like FMCG, BFSI, etc.

Launched in May 2019, Able Jobs provides end to end hiring support to companies from finding the right candidate to getting talent deployed. Their app has rigorous online training programs where they pre-train candidates for job roles specific to companies. Post-training, companies interview candidates and then roll out offers as they deem fit. Able Jobs also helps companies acquire talent through social channels and gives them access to people beyond job portals.

Commenting on the fund raise, Able Jobs CEO Ravish Agrawal , said ,” Over the past decades companies have invested a lot of capital in hiring and training of entry level talent. We, at Able jobs, are focused on solving this by  partnering with companies and helping them hire trained professionals with a single click and no upfront  investment.”

“We are glad to have the SAIF team on our side,their deep networks in the ecosystem and years of expertise with startups will help us massively scale up our business.”

Announcing the investment, Deepak Gaur, MD, SAIF Partners India said, " We are extremely thrilled to partner with Ravish and his team who are catering to the flourishing bracket of job-seekers in the country. With the rising needs of such platforms in a post-Covid job market, we are confident that Ablejobs can catalyze the growth and development of the entry-level hiring ecosystem in our country while scaling up efficiently at the same time. Looking forward to partner with them in their next phase of growth."

With organisations prioritising skills more than college degrees, their talent requirements have become very dynamic. Using the Able Jobs platform, companies have seen 11X faster hiring and 4X deployable talent over the past few months.

About Able jobs

Started in May 2019, Able jobs has been started by Ravish Agrawal , Svatantra Kumar, Siddharth Srivastav, all of them having experience in the edtech space. Ravish is a graduate of IIT Kanpur and all the founders have done an edtech startup before starting Able Jobs. With an office in Bangalore and a team size of 10+ employees, their business objective is to help companies hire trained entry level talent.

Markivis Launches Mondayjoining.Com To Accelerate Employment in India During Pandemic

Markivis Pvt. Ltd today announced the launch of MondayJoining.com, a recruitment portal to facilitate people who have lost their jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic. The portal intends to connect people who are out of jobs or available to join within 14 days to connect with recruiters. The portal is free for candidates and recruiters, helping companies reduce their cost of hiring. 

“Monday Joining is our way of giving it back to the community in these unprecedented times. We wanted to help people who lost their jobs and businesses by reducing their cost of hiring.”

said Amit Khanduja, the CEO of Markivis Pvt. Ltd.

With MondayJoining.com, candidates do not need to spend endless hours on job hunting and filling out numerous applications for each job post. The platform allows recruiters to reach out to job seekers almost instantly by looking at their experience, skills and expertise updated within extensive candidate profiles. In addition, the platform reduces the effort of recruiters from creating lengthy job descriptions and going through the hassle of receiving hundreds of non-suitable resumes, and most importantly worrying whether a candidate will join after making them wait for 2-3 months. 

“We used to see so many posts and media news every day about people losing their jobs but on the contrary we were also hearing a completely different story from HR Leaders, who we work with regularly in the Employer Branding space. Companies were unable to source the right candidates who were available to join quickly. That is when we thought of connecting these two sets of audiences using a portal for all those individuals who were seeking a job and the countless recruiters who were hiring,” he added.

What differentiates mondayjoining.com from other platforms is one it’s zero subscription fees and some of the unique features that have been built and are in pipeline for recruiters such as:

1. Track and report candidates who accept an offer and do not join
2. Getting an offer acceptance within the portal 
3. Only allowing candidates who can join within 14 days to register 
4. Adding background verified/ Reference Checked profiles to shorten candidate on-boarding

The portal intends to launch operations in Australia and the UK in the next few months. The website’s soft launch two weeks ago drew over 35,000 candidate profiles who are ready for immediate hiring, and 213 verified recruiters who are actively hiring. The platform aims at increasing its reach with the official launch. 

About Markivis: 

Markivis is a Marketing Consulting Agency which offers services across Employer Branding& Marketing to leading B2B companies. Founded in 2018, the company was recently recognized as the “Employer Branding company of the year”. They have created a niche for themselves in the B2B industry and today work with 5 of the top 10 leading IT / ITeS companies, with client presence across India, U.S., Canada, Japan, U.K. and Australia. 

About Monday Joining:

Monday Joining is a platform ‘Beyond Job Descriptions’. It was essentially brought to life with the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating its impact on employment, where thousands of people were losing jobs for no fault of theirs. The platform is developed keeping in mind the need for an immediate hiring and is exclusive for professionals who can join a role within 0-14 days after an offer is made. Monday Joining aims at saving time and money for everyone - candidates and recruiters alike.

About the Founder: 

With more than 16 years of experience in B2B Marketing, Amit Khanduja is currently the CEO of Markivis Pvt. Ltd. He has held several senior-level positions in IT and ITeS organizations. His last position was with EXL where he was the Vice President for Marketing, leading the Digital Marketing function and responsible for the Marketing Technology Stack. He has also held senior positions in Innodata, Genpact, and HCL Technologies.

Amit has experience in services, solutions, and product marketing activities across global markets. Adept in defining and building go to market strategies, planning, and executing marketing campaigns. 

Ministry launches AI-based Portal to Help Skilled People Find Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has launched Artificial Intelligence-based portal called -- 'Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)' -- to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities.

The ASEEM portal, will provide employers with a platform to assess the availability of skilled workforce and formulate their hiring plans and in turn, open up massive job opportunities for the unemployed youth. 

Besides recruiting a skilled workforce that spurs business competitiveness and economic growth, the ASEEM platform has been envisioned to strengthen their career pathways by handholding them through their journeys to attain industry-relevant skills and explore emerging job opportunities, especially in the post-COVID era. 

The portal is also available as an APP and is developed and managed by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in collaboration with Bengaluru-based company Betterplace specializing in blue collar employee management.

50% Jobseekers focus on Self-Development for Career Advancement in a Tough Job Market - Survey

Naukri.com rolled out the survey to 50,000 active jobseekers to gauge their sentiment around the jobs market, career progression and increment expectations.

The sixty-four days of the lockdown may have paved way for uncertainties in the job market but only 10% active jobseekers confirmed that they have been laid-off, revealed a survey by India’s No. 1 job site, Naukri.com. The unwelcomed pause in the hiring activity has opened new avenues for jobseekers to up-skill themselves and enhance their domain expertise. Close to 50% jobseekers confirmed that they are utilizing this time to focus on self-development. The survey also revealed that the jobseekers from the IT, Pharma, Medical/Healthcare and BFSI industries were less impacted by layoffs and salary cuts as compared to their counterparts from other industries.

Further to this, the survey revealed that fear of laying off or salary cuts are not the key drivers for job change. Interestingly, it’s better career opportunities. 70% of jobseekers are scouting new jobs for better career opportunities followed by 16% due to salary cuts by their organization and 14% due to the fear of being laid off by their company.



Out of the 10% of jobseekers who have already been laid off, 15% were from the Airlines and E-commerce industry each and around 14% were from the Hospitality industry. Around 13% of the laid-off employees were senior professionals with 11+ years of work experience and were working in either Sales (12%), HR & Admin (12%), Marketing (11%) or Operations/Supply Chain (11%) roles.

Referring to the survey findings, Pawan Goyal, Chief Business Officer, Naukri.com said, “The survey gives a broad direction of maintaining caution towards the future outlook of the job market. While only 10% jobseekers confirmed that they have been laid-off as per the survey, almost 34% fear that a layoff is imminent. The Step-Up’ initiative by Naukri.com aims to facilitate hiring of the laid off segment by improving their discovery by the recruiters & expense less access to their CV’s. On the positive side it is heartening to see that more than 50% of jobseekers are focusing on upskilling for better career opportunities and that is a sure shot way of long term career growth.”

Majority of jobseekers are utilizing the time at hand due to the lockdown for self-development and career advancement. Either the jobseekers have enrolled in for an upskilling course or are seeking professional help for building their resumes and brushing their domain knowledge. Data Science & Analytics courses (22%), followed by Digital Marketing (20%), and Finance and Risk Management (16%) were amongst the top courses being picked up by jobseekers to up-skill themselves.



There is a mixed feeling around layoffs and salary cuts amongst jobseekers. 41% of the jobseekers were positive that layoffs are not likely to happen in their organization. These jobseekers were mostly from the BFSI, IT and Pharma industries suggesting a relatively higher job security sentiment in these industries. On the other hand, 59% of the jobseekers, mostly from the Airlines, Hospitality, Ecommerce and BPO/ITES industries, confirmed that the layoffs are either already announced or most likely to happen in the coming days.

On the salary cut front – one-third jobseekers indicated that salary cuts have not yet been announced but are most likely in the near future. In the most impacted sectors such as Airlines, Hospitality, and E-commerce almost half of the jobseekers indicated that salary cuts have been announced in their companies.





Comparing the results of a similar survey carried out pre COVID 19 in Feb 20 revealed that the jobseeker outlook on salary increments has changed drastically. Just 18% of the jobseeker pre COVID 19 were expecting a modest hike of 0 to 5% but this number has now swelled to 63% given the conservative outlook of their companies. Similarly 77% jobseeker were expecting an increment between 6-20% pre COVID 19 and this now has drastically reduced to just 34%.



Naukri.com, India’s No. 1 job site and the flagship brand of Info Edge introduced the concept of e-recruitment in India. Since its inception in 1997, Naukri.com has seen continuous growth while outperforming its competitors in every sphere. Info Edge was the first internet company to be listed in India. The site enjoys a traffic share of over 70% as per similar web. Naukri.com is a recruitment platform that provides hiring-related services to corporates/recruiters, placement agencies and job seekers in India and overseas. It offers multiple products like Resume Database Access, listings and Response Management Tools. With more than 5,25,000 jobs live at any point and over 60 million CVs, Naukri.com serviced over 76,000 corporate clients. The company operates 56 offices in 42 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.