How do I hide my Naukri profile from my current company?

Use the Blocked Companies setting. Open Settings from your profile menu (the side menu on the app), go to Blocked Companies, search for your employer, and add every name variant you can find, such as 'Pvt. Ltd.' and 'Private Limited'. Recruiters logged in from those company accounts should then not be able to view your profile, though Naukri itself says it cannot guarantee this fully.

Can my current employer see that I am on Naukri?

If you have not blocked them and your profile is searchable, a recruiter at your company searching Naukri's database can find you like any other candidate. Blocking your company reduces this, but it works at the level of the company's Naukri account, so it may not cover consultancies or recruitment agencies your employer uses. Treat blocking as a strong filter, not a guarantee.

Should I make my Naukri profile not searchable?

Usually no, if you are actively looking. Making the profile not searchable hides it from every recruiter, not just your employer, so you lose inbound calls entirely. Naukri's own guidance points job seekers to blocking specific companies instead. Hiding the whole profile only makes sense if you have paused your search.

Does blocking a company on Naukri stop its consultants from seeing my profile?

Naukri's help pages describe blocking by company name and do not say it extends to third-party recruitment agencies. Assume it does not. Agencies have their own Naukri accounts, and many of them hire for several clients, possibly including your employer.

Will my employer know if I apply to their job on Naukri?

Yes. Applying sends your profile and resume straight to whoever posted the job, so no visibility setting can hide it. If you are job hunting quietly, avoid applying to postings from your own company, its group companies, and the agencies that hire for it.

Is it safe to use LinkedIn Open to Work while employed?

The recruiters-only setting is the safer option: it hides the green photo frame and is designed to keep the signal away from recruiters at your current company. That depends on company matching you cannot check, so treat it as a filter rather than a guarantee. The public green frame is visible to everyone, including your manager.

How to Hide Your Naukri Profile From Your Current Company

To hide your Naukri profile from your current company, add your employer to Blocked Companies in Naukri’s settings, including every spelling of its name, and keep the rest of your profile searchable. Recruiters logged in from blocked company accounts should not see you, but Naukri says it cannot guarantee this, and blocking does nothing for jobs you apply to yourself.

I have watched a lot of people run their search while still employed, which is most people in India given 60 and 90-day notice periods. The setting itself takes two minutes. The leaks around it are where quiet searches actually get found out. If you use a Naukri auto apply tool, there is one more setting to handle, which I cover below.

What Naukri’s Blocked Companies setting actually does

Naukri’s help pages describe a Blocked Companies option for exactly this case. You pick companies, and recruiters from those companies should not be able to view your profile when they search Naukri’s database.

Three things worth knowing before you rely on it:

It works on company names as Naukri lists them. Naukri’s own advice is to search for variants if your employer does not show up, for example “ABC Private Limited” and “ABC Pvt. Ltd.” Add every version that appears.
Naukri says it cannot guarantee it fully. That is their wording, not mine. A recruiter at your company using a personal login, or a recruiter whose account sits under a different company name, may still see you.
It is about search, not applications. Blocking stops your profile appearing in their search results. It does not stop your profile reaching them if you apply to their job.

I could not find anything in Naukri’s help pages saying blocking extends to the recruitment agencies your employer uses. Assume it does not.

How to hide your Naukri profile from your current company, step by step

Menu labels move between the website and the app, and Naukri redesigns them every so often. The structure below is what Naukri’s help pages describe at the time of writing.

Open your Naukri settings. On the website, open Settings from your profile menu. On the app, open the side menu and go to Settings.
Add your employer to Blocked Companies. Open Blocked Companies, search for your current employer, and add it. Then search the variants: the full legal name, the short form, the brand name if it differs.
Block group and sister companies. Parent companies, subsidiaries, and sister brands often share HR teams or talk to each other. Add them. Add a former employer too if you would rather they did not hear about your search.
Keep your profile searchable. There is also an option to make your whole profile not searchable, under the communication and privacy settings. Naukri itself does not recommend it if you are looking for a change, because every recruiter loses sight of you, not just your employer.
Remove obvious signals from the profile. “Serving notice”, “immediate joiner”, and “actively looking” do not belong in your headline. The notice period field exists for that, and recruiters filter on it anyway. Your Naukri profile headline should be about the job you do.
Never apply to your own company’s postings. More on this in the next section, because it is the most common way people out themselves.

You can also turn recruiter emails down to “No Email” in communication settings if your inbox is something people at work might glance at. That does not affect who can see your profile, only how you hear from them.

Where a confidential job search still leaks

The setting covers one channel: your employer’s recruiters searching Naukri. A search leaks through plenty of others.

Applying to your employer’s jobs. When you apply, Naukri sends your profile and resume to whoever posted the role. No visibility setting can intercept that. This happens more than you would think with large companies, where an internal role is posted publicly under a group entity or a slightly different name. Read the company name on every posting before you apply.

Consultancies that hire for your employer. Many Indian recruitment agencies hire for a dozen clients at once. If an agency posts a “leading IT MNC, Pune” role, you have no idea whose job it is, and it could be yours. Your resume may also travel further than you intended: once it is in an agency’s database, it can be shared with other clients. If a consultant calls, ask who the client is before you agree to be submitted.

LinkedIn Open to Work. The public green frame on your photo is visible to everyone, including your manager. The recruiters-only setting is safer and is designed to keep the signal away from recruiters at your current company, but like Naukri’s block, it depends on company matching you cannot check. Using LinkedIn Open to Work in India covers the settings in detail. If confidentiality matters more than reach, use recruiters-only or leave it off.

References and background checks. Do not list your current manager as a reference. Ask new employers when the background verification will contact your current company, and agree that it happens only after you have resigned or accepted. Most will accept that if you ask clearly.

Your own behaviour. Long calls from the office car park, a sudden LinkedIn makeover, a profile photo change on a Monday. People notice patterns faster than settings.

If an apply tool is involved, block the employer there too

A quiet search on a 90-day notice still needs volume, because by the time you can join, the role has often gone to an immediate joiner. That is where people bring in automation, and where a block-list matters.

Volume only works with filters. My standing opinion is that applying to everything is how you get 200 rejections and no signal, and for a confidential search, a careless filter is also how your own HR team sees your resume. Your block-list is the first filter you set, before role, city, or salary.

ApplyCove’s Naukri auto apply has a company block-list in session preferences: add your current employer, its group companies, and any agency you know hires for it, and scheduled sessions skip their postings. Every application is logged with company and title, so you can check what went where. Sessions run in a real Chrome browser on a session you authorized, we never collect your Naukri password, and they pause for any OTP. The setup is in how to enable auto apply on Naukri.

When hiding your profile is not worth the effort

Not everyone needs any of this. Rule of thumb:

If your company knows you are leaving (layoffs announced, resignation in, project ending), skip the secrecy and make yourself as visible as possible. Hiding only costs you calls.
If your employer has no HR team on Naukri at all, which is common at small firms, blocking does little. The leaks that matter are the human ones above.
If you only want one specific role at one company, you do not need a visible profile. Set an alert, apply directly, and keep your profile as it is.

The people who should do all six steps are the ones at large employers with in-house recruiters, which describes most IT services and big-company employees in India.

One thing to do today

Open Blocked Companies and search your employer’s name three ways: the legal name, the short form, and the brand name. Most people add one variant and stop. Then look at the last ten jobs you applied to and check whether any were posted by a consultancy without a named client. That is the leak nobody blocks.

Once you are hidden from the people who should not see you, make sure the people who should can find you: how to get recruiter views on Naukri covers the searchable half of the same profile.