(openPR) - 22 April ’08: The concept of the Job Fair was pioneered in India by TimesJobs.com, India’s No. 1 job site and the TimesJobs.com Jumbo Job Fair, at MRC Centre Santhome, Chennai as always, witnessed an over-whelming response from job seekers and companies from across the country. The two-day fair held on 5 - 6 April ‘08, witnessed 7,400 candidates walk in to seek better paying jobs with over 22 companies participating at the fair.

Participating companies spanned across industries such as IT, ITeS, Banking, Insurance, Education & Training.

Commenting on the TimesJobs.com Chennai Jumbo Job Fair, Mr. Richard Andrew, Business Manager, Team Healthcare, said, “The biggest advantage that we got as a participant in the TimesJobs.com Jumbo Fair was branding. This event helped us in building awareness and employment branding. TimesJobs.com is a synonym for quality and the same was true of the quality of candidates that walked in at the Jumbo Job fair.”

An enthused, Mr. V. Srinivasan, Sr. Recruiter, Perot System, added, “Our experience with TimesJobs.com Jumbo Job Fair at Chennai was good. We saw over 730 candidates walk- in to our stall on the two days at the job fair. We got a lot of market exposure, which was a big benefit. The event was well planned and arranged by the TimesJobs.com team and the representatives were very corporative.”

The companies that partnered with TimesJobs.com in this Jumbo Job Fair, included reputed names like Ford Business Services Centre, AIG Systems, IBM, Club Mahindra, Volex, Amazon.com, DSRC, HOV Services, Ajuba, Sutherland, Cholamandalam MS, Perot Systems, Plipl.com, Aldea, Max, Newyork, Team Health care, Y-Axis, Doli Systems, Nittany, NIIT, ICICI home loans and CMS amongst others.

For more information, please contact:

Mr. Mohit Chopra
National Head – Job Fairs – Service Delivery
TimesJobs.com
+ 91 9899200063


Times Business Solutions
B-1-C, Sector 10
Noida - 201301

0120 3029123

About TimesJobs.com:

TimesJobs.com is India’s No.1 recruitment portal in India, with the largest number of active job seekers and a database of over 7.5 million candidates. In addition, the massive database of over two hundred thousand better paying jobs available from over 20,000 recruiters, including blue-chip companies from India and abroad, ensures that the search always yields results.

Some of the outstanding features of the site include –

*Drop Down menus on mouse over, from the Top Bar for Searching Jobs, My TimesJobs.com, Job Fairs & Career Services, reducing the number of clicks job-seekers has to make to take them to their destination

*Click to Log In - on the top right corner of the screen, causes a login box to appear on the screen removing the need to open a new page for it.

*Visibility of the most used features of a jobsite – the search and register functions on the home page, have been given high prominence.

*Browse Jobs – hidden just below the Search & Register function is a whole range of options, waiting to be discovered - ranging across the most popular industries, to browsing by function, level and location, all accessible by expanding the banner with the “+” sign.

*The Fine Tune Search feature allows a jobseeker to fine-tune their search across a host of options, from the left hand column, which clearly defines all the sub categories, one after another, empowering job-seekers to filter and fine tune their search. The options for fine tuning job searches range across Specialisation, Work experience, Industry, Date of posting and even Salary & Part time jobs. The beauty of this feature is that the options are clearly described with the number of vacancies mentioned in brackets alongside the results.

*TimesJobs.com Voice Resumes - TimesJobs.com also has the world’s first voice resume service to its credit. The service is exclusively targeted at the Business Process Outsourcing Industry in its first phase. Available as a seamless service on www.TimesJobs.com, potential, and existing BPO employees can now “speak and record” their resumes, including answering a few typical questions and read a randomly system-chosen paragraph as part of their online resume. The entire technology of this voice suite exclusively resides on www.TimesJobs.com portal.

*Sector specific Resumes - In order for the candidate to be a contender for positions across industries of various companies, the portal has a unique functionality that is imperative in today’s multi-tasking environment- it allows a job seeker to post multiple resumes. Candidates also have the advantage of submitting three separate and industry-specific resumes.

*Value Added Services - Resumes are the critical factors that ensure candidates get interview calls. ‘Magic Resume’ was launched to provide candidates with resumes that most competently reflect their qualifications and experience, drawing upon the proficiency of qualified HR experts for this process. As an extension of its core philosophy of connecting aspirants to the job opportunity, TimesJobs.com commenced the ‘Resume Zapper’ service, which gives the candidate’s resume direct access to over 1200 of the best placement consultants in India and abroad.

*TimesJobs Mobile - In order to offer candidates another effective contact point, TimesJobs.com, launched “TimesJobs Mobile” a mobile interface that allows the candidate to search, view, and apply for jobs simply by SMSing “Jobs” to 58888.

*XpressHire - In the pursuit to provide the best and the most efficient recruitment solutions to its clients, timesjobs.com launched xpresshire. A service that enables recruiters to send SMS to targeted or even multiple candidates at a single click and receive their responses and applications. Recruiters Can SMS & Receive Applications from Job-Seekers Through timesjobs.Com