After E-mail, Online job search is most popular activity in India

The technology boom may have made IT sector the top career choice, but software geeks account for only one-fifth of those scouting for jobs online - the second most popular activity on the Internet.

According to a survey done by online research consultancy firm JuxtConsult India, three out of four urban Indians (73 per cent) are logging on to the Internet in search of a job, making it the second most popular online activity after emails. This represents a sharp increase over 53 per cent of active Internet users searching for jobs in 2006.

Sending emails is the most popular activity with a user base of close to 24 million, or 95 per cent of the total active Internet users.

Besides, searching jobs online is no more limited to big cities and only four out of 10 online job seekers in urban India come from the top 10 metro cities.

A majority of 61 per cent of online job seekers come from non-metro towns - 31 per cent belonging to smaller non-metro towns and 30 per cent from the larger non-metros, it reveals.

In terms of functional background, just 21 per cent of the total number of online job seekers in urban India, estimated at about 18.4 million, come from the IT or software area, the JuxtConsult India Employee Speak 2007 study found.

PTI