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E-commerce Websites Get A Real Boom
03 June 2011
After ten years of expectation for boom but failure, e-commerce websites are finally once again risen and this time its a real one with Internet penetration expand. And because of this jobs are in boom in the section.
By this, we don't mean by high-profile companies but, instead, minor shopping portals that have quietly built up their presence in minor towns known as Tier II and III cities. The Internet user base of India is hoping industry to grow by 40% this year from last year's 71 million, large enough to make some success in shopping sites.
Since clients look for bargain costs at the click of a mouse through easy credit card payments, the challenge for e-commerce companies is to deliver customer support and fulfill the orders for which team is required.
Online shopping portals like Flipkart.com, Naaptol.com, Snapdeal.com, Myntra.com and Letsbuy.com are one of those that are in expansion mode.
The CEO of online fashion goods store Bigshoebazaar.com, Manmohan Agarwal, said, “We are now more than 500 and now we are looking at increasing our manpower strength to over 1,000 by the year-end.”
After the recent hike by $12 million in venture sponsorship, Snapdeal.com targets doubling its headcount at the end of this year from the current 400. According to SnapDeal CEO, Kunal Bahl, “This is a new business to explore and we are hiring people who can help us in rolling out new categories and developing new categories to win against the competitors.”
Moreover, Naaptol.com is also assumed to hire 50+ people every month since its last years hike of Rs. 33 crores.
According to the director of a US-based human resource recruiting company outsourcing at Kenexa, Ray Periera, the process of hiring people in this area has increased a lot. He said, “E-commerce websites are desperately hunting for high-performing professionals who will be able to handle various aspects of the business and build the infrastructure.”
This section is also able to widen all because of the movement of venture capital funds that give its developing entrepreneurs elbow room to spend.