We launched the India PR Jobs Board six months back and since then, there have been 25 job postings, more than 4000 views, and more than 150 applications.

The most popular posting was that of CMCG India on Aug 30, 2007 that was viewed 175 times and had 18 candidates applying for the job. The second was of K2 Communications on July 25, 2007 that was viewed 123 times and had 11 candidates applying for that job. The third most popular job posting was from brand-comm on Oct 30, 2007. It was viewed 112 times and 12 candidates applied for that job.

Some of the other organisations that have used the job board so far are LINOpinion, 20:20 MEDIA, Dag Communications, Text 100, Aarohan Communications, RockeTalk, P’zahn Consultants, India News Communications Ltd., Finesse PR, Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick, Imprimis Life, PRHub, and IPAN.

Not bad. But it could have been better.

When we launched this job board, we focus more on HR professionals from PR agencies and corporates to post jobs and mails were sent out to them. We missed out one important player community in the whole job recruitment mix in India – i.e. the HR consultants/ or the recruitment specialists in independent firms. Many of these HR consultants today handle accounts of PR agencies and they are the ones looking for PR candidates pro actively.

If we look at how a recruitment works in a typical PR agency, the HR guy would focus more on internal stuff and simply outsource most of the recruitment to a HR consultant and also rely a bit on employee referral. Of course in some agencies, many of the HR professionals do the recruitment lead generation themselves.

So this is the official call from India PR Blog to all HR consultants/recruitment specialists looking out for PR professionals, content writers, event management professionals, and the like. People, please feel free to post all PR and related jobs out here.

India PR Jobs Board is an experimental free job board started by the India PR Blog to list available public relations and related jobs in India (in agencies and corporate communication departments).

This job board highlights PR job vacancies as posted by the HR/contact persons of PR agencies and corporates or by those who need the services of a PR professional/freelancer for short-term projects. These posts are available at the job board’s independent url, or through the combined India PR Blog RSS feed, or when readers subscribed to this blog on their email, thus accessible to hundreds of PR professionals across the country reading this blog.

More than job recruitment or facilitation service, take this as a social community of recruiters and candidates in the PR industry.

How do you add a new job posting – Click the orange color ‘Post a Job’ button at the top right hand side of the job board’s page. On the web form opened up, fill up the details, follow the instructions, and you are done. Preview your job posting before finalising it. There is a preview button on the job form page.

You can check out the FAQs and tips on posting here.

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