A quick follow up on my previous post on Online Job hunt... Alootechie reports -"40 per cent of those surveyed in India found their most recent job online". Interesting!! More on this will follow...

Browsing through the Advertisers section on Facebook, I found the section on choosing the right audience really interesting. Its a little random though giving slightly different statistics each time I run it (table below is the numbers it gives - age group of 13-40).

It gives you some good insights on people from India (hopefully) on Facebook. (though not everyone updates everyting). Here are a few statistics I gathered at around 8:00 PM IST on 25th Jan 08 .

Age group - 13-40:

• Who's on Facebook? : US with 22 million, UK with 7.6 million and Canada with 7.3 million rule! Turkey which is 4th has 65% lower number of people on Facebook than Canada which is at 3rd.
  
• Numbers from India? : Around 473,000 people were registered from India. This makes it 13th in terms of number of people on Facebook in the 13-40 age group.
  
• Demographics-Ratios? : As expected, higher number of Men than Women from India were on this network.
• Demographics-Age? : While you expect young audience to go online, almost 90% of the users in this group are less than 30 year old.
• Wonder what they are doing on Facebook? : Close to 70% of the people are 'Single' :).
  
• Taken quickly?: Higher proportion of Women on Facebook were either 'in a relationship', 'engaged' or 'married'. Ironically, a slightly higher proportion of Men in the age group of 21-30 were 'in a relationship'
  
• Child marriages :p :Around 2.5% of the people are married before the age of 20. Its 3.8% in the case of Women.

I can go on, but its really interesting that Facebook reveals so much to its advertisers openly!

My experience with Job hunting thru online Job portals has been disastrous. In my case, its always been a placement consultant who has contacted me after going thru my profile on these sites and never a Company directly. Aren't the Job Portals supposed to directly connect the seeker with the company recruiter?

This brings me to the other method of reaching the company directly online. The career's section of Company Websites. My own company has the worst careers section I have ever seen. I don't think it has been updates ever since I joined the company (which has been long). Leave alone a slow technology adopting companies like mine, some of the best online companies out there suck as far as their careers section go!

Check this section on Yahoo! India, which shows how proactive they are in looking at online applications.

Some time back I blogged about Google Transliteration tool. While I was doing my morning mail and search ritual, I found the Rediff language search page. Good integration of Quillpad I should say.