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CollegeKhabar.com: Enlightening students for a better career
For a student stepping into the final year of graduation, the big hunt for the next year is to plan and set the sail right for plunging into a good job. Out of the 17,000+ colleges in India, very a few lucky ones get to throw red carpet welcome for big companies to organize campus recruitments.
For the folks who succeeded in those campus interviews, the social talk around them praises of their intelligence, knowledge, luck, hard work et la,,. Sometimes this aura gets snuffed off once he/she gets the real experience as an employee in that company.
Before arriving at a college, for conducting campus recruitments, companies get to know enough about the college. But students who take part in the interviews would have hardly given enough thought to know about the company beforehand. Once selected, most of the students make a blind dive into their first job.
Is it a must for a student to know about the company beforehand?
“Yes. A prior focused and relevant information about the employer and the job profile, does equip the student to make their choice a better one” quips Hemant, Co-founder of CollegeKhabar.com, who himself had the real experience with his first employer as he did made a blind decision to join his first company.
Devendra’s passion in cyber space drove him to design his own website even while studying 11th standard. But after graduating in Metallurgical Engineering, he got placed in a company dealing with metals. His passion and career got a conflict of sorts and he realized the confusion that had mixed in his chemistry. He vouches that every aspirant should get to know of the job profile before heading for the interview.
Actually, information about the employers is hardly available on the public domain. Getting to know of the job profile before sitting for the interview is not so heard of by the students in India. Out of real life experience and with a dream to make students make their career choice a better one; Devendra and Hemant along with their friend Naveen had spruced up with CollegeKhabar.com. Those chats during their weekends and intrinsic discussions over the cup of coffee had given them enough steam to pep up their engines for their first ever entrepreneurial journey with an investment of Rs.70,000 in August 2009.
College Khabar as of now focuses on Engineering and Management institutes by providing news about placements happening across various campuses in India, apart from updates on rankings of colleges, prospects available for aspirants at different companies, etc.,
The first bottleneck in their business was the handicap to channelize the information of placements happening across the institutes in India. Then, they went on to identify Campus Partners popularly called Khabaris in each of the institutes to provide updates on placements taking place in their respective institutes. To make more out of it, rewards and benefits find their way to those Khabaris who make the more hay.
Reckoning with a 2000 registered users and 2Lac views a month, College Khabar aims to make its presence in top 100 engineering & 50 management institutes by this year. Now 25+ institutes are on their book across India from NITs to IITs.
Though they are very young and yet to make their risky plunge into a successful revenue model, their hungriness to guide the student fraternity in making their career decision a wiser one is to be adorned. Startupstory.in wishes them the very best.
CollegeKhabar.com204, Raison Armour,
IndiraPuram, Ghaziabad Uttarpradesh 201014 Contact: 9717891507 (Hemant), 9871903633 (Devendra) Email id info@collegekhabar.com
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Thrillophilia.com: Kindling the potential of Indian Adventure Tourism
“If you do not dive into water, you will never learn to swim” says Abhisek Daga, the 26 year old thrill-o-preneur from Bangalore. The business we are talking about is all about THRILL.
The adventure tourism company, www.thrillophilia.com is itself a passionate entrepreneurial journey by Abhishek along with three of his friends Chitra Gurnani, Vikram Arora and Abhishek Tripathi. The gang of four had a common virus called “Adventure” afflicted in them. Their company THRILLOPHILIA is all about pumping up the adrenaline in the Indian youth, meanwhile kindling the potential of the yet to be explored market called “The Indian Adventure Tourism”.
Though he was a software engineer at CISCO systems, his love over adventure has made this fitness freak to plunge into a new kinda business. Thrill-o-philes, as the foursome call themselves were joined by Saket Tandore then. The diversity in their respective vocations, be it Engineering, Management, Computer Sciences, Marine and Law helps them come up with out-of-the-box thinking to plug their problems with quick business solutions.
Adventure tourism in India is largely an unorganised sector which has a lot of business potential, though it’s not put to test in a massive scale. Abhishek’s technological edge has put the viral WEB2.0 strategy into the adventure tourism.
The THRILL QUOTIENT is much higher in foreign tourists. “The potential for adventure tourism to add to the tourism economy in India is very high and this is the right time to make the plunge”, says Abhishek.
Thrillophilia is based out of Bangalore with back-end office at Jaipur. Their portal clocking 500 hits a day has eyed Hyderabad, Chennai, Orissa, Jharkhand and Rajasthan as their next destination with dreams to make their venture go global in the years to come.
Talking about competition, he laughs it off saying, “We thrive on competition and it pumps our urge to be ahead all the time”.
Thrillophilia currently has five partners and two employees working for the company. Open culture, equal opportunity and the right to question are the traits that are driving their culture. In a start-up where employee strength is low, work culture plays an important role and this startup pays specific importance to it.
Their strategy to take customer feedback with an additional pinch of salt is one of their pillars of success. “Not to forget that Mother Nature is the only inventory for anybody; we are a highly GREEN Company and follow the same to protect the natural inventory” Abhishek quips to Startupstory.in.
For the adventurists planning their own trips in India, they provide a link Adventure Bible with information about more than 500 destinations available in India to explore.
For people dreaming to startup Abhishek’s tells “Just do it. Patience is the best virtue of any startup. Proper planning, impeccable executions are the keys to success. Diving in new water is always difficult but not impossible”.
Thrillophilia Adventure Tours Pvt. Ltd. BF1, Cherry Lane, Green Glen Layout, Bellandur, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore-560037 Email: info@thrillophilia.comAbhishek Daga, Founder, abhishek@thrillophilia.com
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