"Not using a test when required, could result in the hiring of inappropriate resources (in terms of personality traits............. Then there is the cost of non-optimization of manpower, as a wrong hire may not be able to learn and scale-up as well as perform. And finally, there is the cost of loss in production as despite having the skills, an employee may not have the ‘will’ to perform," says Kalpana Padhi, Director, Humanlinks.com ( Dataquest, April 30,2002)

"In the past 3 months, 35% vacancies posted at humanlinks.com were from biotech companies, 30% from FMCG and 22% from the pharma sector......... Further, of the 865 companies registered with this site, nearly 335 belonged to these sectors. This is 150% rise over the previous 3 months.... remarks Kalpana Padhi, Director, Human-Web Technologies (Hindustan Times, June 14, 2001)  

HR portals like humanlinks.com follow an upside down model, where the applicant is invited to post only a limited description of her CV. The service is not charged to the candidate. Any recruiter interested in the profile can contact her directly................ “We value an individual’s right to privacy and do not archive or circulate these for commercial gains,” explains Kalpana Padhi of humanlinks.com. (Hindustan Times, August 23, 2001)

She's got a human model. Kalpana Padhi is targeting HR professionals..........Padhi now wants to sell a HR management software online..... Kalpana Padhi, Director, humanlinks.com--  Business Today (February 22-March 6, 2000) in "The new e-Lite" section

humanlinks.com features as the Human Resource portal in the shortlisted "India's Portal Ventures" by Business Today, Dec 7, 1999 

Career Warehouse...... The site claims to be the only Indian portal on human resource development .......has an excellent database --- NetCracker on humanlinks.com

An excellent and comprehensive portal site for human resource development professionals.................... Some of the highlights are the ready reckoner for the HR managers....----  Rediff.com on humanlinks.com

Three leading Indian jobsites: naukri.com, monsterindia.com, humanlinks.com...... “One thing is obvious,” says Padhi. “The recruiters, particularly in IT, are being more selective and the 'CV generated to Hiring' ratio is much higher now than it was during the boom time.” In other words recruiters are testing the waters more closely now. They are,  beginning to give more credence to competency rather than the number of years put in a particular sector.--- Hindustan Times ( November 7, 2002)