The “Red Herring Asia 100" 2006 : Naukri won The “Red Herring Asia 100" 2006 award, for the INSTA HIRE Solution. Insta Hire is a closed loop application, which provides for instant contact by recruiters and instant application by recruitees via SMS. It is a breakthrough recruitment solution available on a revolutionary new platform going beyond the standard.

The “Red Herring Asia 100" is given to the top 100 Asian tech companies on the basis of technology innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition and financial health. This year the awards were held in Hong Kong.

Silver EFFIES 2006: Naukri’s “Hari Sadu” campaign won the “Silver Effies” 2006 in Mumbai EFFIE awards Ideas that Work - the great ideas that achieve real results and the strategy that goes into creating them. The EFFIE Awards gaze the co-relation between the add release and the increase in sales. Whether mainstream or alternative; digital or print; design or advertising; paid or unpaid, if the campaign can demonstrate measurable results its is eligible to enter EFFIE.

Club Calcutta Award: Naukri won two awards at the Advertising Club Calcutta “Consumer Connect Awards’, for the “Hari Sadu” campaign. One is the National Trophy in the Consumer Services category & the other is the Campaign of the Year.

In these Award the consumers play a major part. Each entry goes through the two-panel study to generate a Consumer Connect Score. Each entry is taken through two separate consumer panels. First a "Market Assessment" is conducted to determine current perception of the brand. Then a "Stimulus Assessment" is conducted with a matched panel to measure the impact the entry had on consumer's perceptions of the brand. The winner is chosen based on a live presentation of the case study.