Friday, April 11, 2014

Where to find those startups who are recruiting?


In this blog post, let us understand how we find those startup companies who are recruiting. While some of them relevant for all industries, it is understood that the blog gives more importance to technology related companies.

Startups can be categorized into 3 types based on their stages

1. Founder Startups
2. Bootstrapped Startups
3. Funded Startups

Founder startups are typically where only the founders are busy building the product and doing experimental marketing. These startups are aplenty in our country today and they would love to hire interns for small tasks.

Where can you find them?

http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/ - This is a forum where a lot of startups meet discuss and validate their ideas on Saturdays across different metro cities. This is a good place to send a few of your best students to interact and build relationship.

http://jobs.startups.in/ 

Bootstrapped Startups are typically where the product is slowly accepted in the market and the founders are using their savings to market the product. These companies prefer to hire interns who can become employees in the future. They generally hire independent interns specific for Designing, Development and Marketing with different expertise

Some of the prominent sites where Bootstrapped startups post their internships & jobs.
http://jobs.yourstory.com/jobs/listing
https://hasgeek.com/

Funded startups can be also be incubated or accelerated. These are startup companies where they have sought financial or incubation support. These companies prefer both full-timers and interns who can work on different functions.

Some of the funded/incubated startups post their job postings here.

 www.startatsv.com/category/jobs This is an official blog of Startup Village, Kochi which frequently posts Job requirements in incubated startups.

www.vccircle.com - This is a website that tracks all the investments ( Private Equity, Buyouts, Sellouts ) of different companies in India. In most cases, whenever any companies gets funding, they use a large part of it to hire ( development, marketing & operations team). So this is a good place to potentially understand who will start hiring.

www.techcircle.in - This is a website which is more specific to deals that happens in Technology related companies.

Some mid-level companies post their jobs here  - http://jobs.siliconindia.com/