Note: This article was written in 2012, since then, some changes have been made in the official website but still it encounters glitches now and then.
If you have ever visited joinindianarmy.nic.in website which is an official career website of the Indian army, then I can understand your frustration in finding correct lists or information over there, you might be habitual to poor design and usability of joinindianarmy.nic.in the website but there is a limit of being careless that to when it is related to a big organization and many defence aspirants. This post will show you the heights of carelessness shown in joinindianarmy.nic.in website.
Before you say it is not a matter of deep concern, I will tell you why a good career website is important for any organization.
- Your website design reflects your professionalism.
- It helps your visitors to access information easily and apply for the recruitment.
- When you have huge visitors, your responsibility increases to provide them easy access to information.
- At last when you have spent money on something, you care for it.
Why Joinindianarmy.nic.in is the worst career website.
1. Not at all intuitive, there are no latest news and alert section. One has to struggle to get information from this website.
2. Gross mistakes, clear signs of negligence, and carelessness. This website looks totally a fake website, if you browse through it, you may find tons of dead links and dummy pages.
Here are some masterpiece examples:
3. Sometimes they upload the ssb interview lists in the wrong section, many times they interchange lists between men and women. Does anyone care about this? and moreover who upload these lists, private coy or army itself. If it is a private coy then just imagine the amount of delay it may cause.
You may know that this website is powered by PECS [planetecomsolutions.com], it is a private firm and there is no doubt that they charge handsome amount to maintain joinindianarmy.nic.in. But as you can see the condition of this website. This is not the first time I am finding someone who is struggling with this website, many aspirants get confused about their ssb dates and other information and they ask it here.
4. Now the question is who fault is this, in my opinion it is Indian army fault, they are not serious about their own website. If they ask PECS for better design then definitely they will make it better, when you pay money for something than you must take care of it. Daily thousands of visitors visit joinindianarmy.nic.in, it increases the responsibility, they must provide a nice platform to defence aspirants.
I rather appreciate indianarmy.nic.in which is an Official Indian Army Web Portal, maintained & managed by the Indian Army. Site hosted by NIC. Though it is also not much intuitive but far better than joinindianarmy.nic.in.
5. Once you visit careerairforce.nic.in and nausena-bharti.nic.in, you will easily understand the level of defence career websites.
Have you checked:
6. I appreciate NIC/NICSI for making careerairforce.nic.in awesome, specially it helped and made AFCAT application a piece of cake. Also not to forget www.jabitsoft.com, for designing nausena-bharti.nic.in.
Nausena-bharti.nic.in was ranked 3rd by webanalytics.gov.in [NIC],
Note: National Informatics Centre (NIC) is a premier S & T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Government / e- Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector.
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