Sanjeev Bikchandani is the man behind India’s no.1 job portal Naukri.com. Naukri.com has 57 million monthly page views.  He is the co-founder and CEO of  InfoEdge (India). At present Sanjeev is in charge of his business(worth over 45 crores worth) with 600 employees and 35 offices all over the country. He had successful stints at the top in advertising and marketing before turning Editor of revenues – in the careers’ supplement of ‘The Pioneer’. He co-authored two books about job hunting and careers. Sanjeev completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in  Economics from St Stephen’s, Delhi. Later he finished his diploma in IIM-A, Ahmedabad. Sanjeev started his journey in entrepreneurship as a sleeping partner in 1989. After taking into cognizance the opportunities to excel,  Sanjeev set up  an office in the servant’s quarter above the garage in his father’s house, paying his father a rent of Rs 800. The main motto of his was to do the  salary surveys  and to market a database of pharmaceutical trademarks. It was not a financially viable alternative during his first few years. So he served as visiting faculty on weekends at business schools in order to meet his personal expenses.

Sanjeev prepared a database of jobs and wanted to launch a videotex service in  Delhi for the advertisement of Department of Telecom (DoT). This  project which never took off, was a pay-to-view model, where  initially the employer would be allowed to host his job free and they would earn from the revenue share the DoT would give. Sanjeev came to know of the World Wide Web in a visit to IT  Asia in 1996. After registering his website to get a domain name, in  March 1997 naukri.com site was set up as a division of InfoEdge. He  worked as a part-time employee  at The Pioneer for 4 years during that initial stage after launching naukri.com. Naukri.com became profitable from the second year. InfoEdge acquired Jeevansathi in September 2004. Besides, it has an offline recruitment business through its venture Quadrangle.

 During his stint with Glaxosmithkline, Sanjeev realised that employees love talking about jobs and career movement. He realised jobs are an extremely high interest information category for almost all people and headhunting had immense potential. His foresight was right. Today, naukri.com has over 3.5 million registered users and it is estimated that over 700,000 people have found jobs through naukri.com. Over 15,000 organisations have used this  site Naukri.com for recruitment