Qjobs crosses 1 million job seekers in 10 months, sees 320% growth in hiring demand for blue and grey collar talent

Quess Corp Limited, India’s largest business services company, today announced that QJobs, its proprietary platform to help blue and grey collar job seekers find jobs, has within the short span of 10 months, touched the 1 million user mark, highlighting the demand potential of the blue collar and grey collar job market. Data from Qjobs further reveals that there has been a remarkable 320% growth in the overall new job openings added during Q2 FY22 compared to Q1 FY22.

The platform, launched in November 2020, focuses on meeting the recruiter and candidate hiring gap efficiently by offering verified jobs to job seekers and pre-screened candidates to recruiters. In line with increasing hiring demand across sectors, India’s blue collar labour market also seen an uptick, with candidate sign-ups growing month-on-month on the QJobs platform across categories.

Some key highlights that QJobs has achieved in the 10 months since its launch include:

·         2.9 lakh hours of hiring time saved for 3600 recruiters

·         1 out of every 3 candidates selected for in-demand categories

·         1.8 lakh candidate upskilling facilitated

·         Consistent high recruiter NPS of 50

·         1.5 million recruiter-candidate interactions facilitated

·         Over 5,40,000 open positions for candidates to choose from

QJobs started with the vision of enabling the most efficient recruitment process for both recruiters and candidates. It aims to offer the best candidate-match and improve recruiter efficiencies for companies, improving the overall recruitment journey for both job seekers and recruiters. To do this, QJobs has developed an AI-driven Recruiter Assistant which can source and verify candidates, conduct video interviews, and release offers to skilled and verified workforce, enabling companies to hire at scale with reduced cost of hiring.

Speaking on the achievement, Sekhar Garisa, President – Emerging Businesses and Chief Strategy Officer, Quess Corp, said, “We started QJobs during the pandemic to address the persistent need gap and create a seamless blue and grey collar recruitment journey. Our focus has been on improving efficiency from the start and this has yielded sizable results. Our immediate goal is to double the candidates on the platform in the next 100 days, and we aim to offer the most efficient talent platform in the country to recruiters and candidates in the long term. This is a notable milestone that we have achieved in just 10 months since inception, and it is the first of many we wish to accomplish in the months ahead. For our next milestone with QJobs, we will endeavour to touch 10 million lives by 2022.”