Sourcing policy

Where listings come from

Listings are collected from official recruitment sources: the websites of central and state recruitment boards, public sector undertakings, and the departments that publish their own notifications. Nothing is copied from other job aggregators, and nothing is submitted by employers or advertisers.

Sources are crawled at a deliberately modest rate, honouring each site’s robots.txt. A recruitment board’s servers exist to serve candidates during application windows, and an aggregator that degrades that is taking something from the people it claims to help.

How a notification becomes a listing

• Collection. The notification is fetched from the source, whether it is a web page or a PDF.
• Extraction. Structured details are read from it. Well-formed documents are parsed directly; scanned notifications go through text recognition, which is less reliable and is treated as such.
• Normalization. Qualifications are matched to a standard vocabulary, so that a notification saying “Degree in Civil Engineering from a recognised University” can be found by someone searching for B.Tech Civil. The original wording is kept and shown alongside it.
• Review. Where extraction is uncertain, the listing is held for a person to check rather than published automatically.

Staying current

Published listings are re-checked against their source. Job pages show when a listing was last verified, so you can judge how current it is rather than assuming. Deadlines are evaluated in Indian Standard Time, which is the timezone the notifications themselves use.

Recruitment boards do extend deadlines, correct vacancy counts and occasionally cancel recruitment altogether. When a re-check finds a change, the listing is updated; when it finds the recruitment cancelled, the listing says so rather than disappearing.

Corrections

If a listing disagrees with its official notification, the notification is right and this site is wrong. Please report it — corrections are the most useful thing anyone can send.