The Multi-Industry Job Fair organized by TimesJobs.com in New Delhi gave another reason to celebrate the New Year with the fair witnessing an over-whelming response from job seekers and companies, across the region. The two-day fair held on 31 Jan and 1st Feb ‘09, witnessed over 5,000 job seekers walk-in, and pick up over 164 on-the-spot job offers with another 350 candidates shortlisted for a second round of interviews with the 8 corporates participating at the fair.

Participating companies spanned across industries including IT, ITeS, Education, Insurance and Banking sectors.

Commenting on the TimesJobs.com Delhi Multi-Industry Job Fair, Mr. Amit Raj Bakshi, AVP - HR, DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Co. Ltd., said, "Everything including the location, branding, promotion and the coordination of the event was perfect. We were very satisfied with both quality and quantity of candidates. We shortlisted 40 candidates from over 235 job seekers that walked in to our stall over the two days. TimesJobs.com’s Delhi Multi-Industry Job Fair was a successful event for us.”

“The Delhi Multi Industry Job Fair organised by TimesJobs.com was yet another success marked by them for us. As usual, everything from candidate walk-ins, venue, timings, marketing of the event to responsiveness of TimesJobs.com team was satisfactory. It has given a kick start to the new year. We look forward to many more successful TimesJobs.com fairs in the year ahead.” added Ms. Shilpi Bhargava, HR, Wipro BPO.

Job seekers were equally enthusiastic about the fair, Tanya Frank, who was recruited by Wipro said, “The TimesJobs.com Job fair is an amazing event and a wonderful opportunity for all those looking for a job in this horrible period of recession. I'm very excited about my job and looking forward to it with great hope! Thanks to TimesJobs.com - It truly is India’s No 1 Job site.”

With the same liveliness, Ankit Kumar who was hired by Barclays, said, “This was the best thing TimesJobs.com could do for us job-seekers – it has helped me in finding a great job without having to move from door to door of these reputed companies. The TimesJobs.com fair was very impressive.”

The companies that partnered with TimesJobs.com in the Delhi Multi-Industry Job Fair included the reputed names of Barclays Shared Services, IBM Daksh, WNS Global Services, Hewitt Associates, UNICON Securities, DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Co. Ltd., NIIT Uniqua and the Shipping Association amongst others.

About TimesJobs.com:

TimesJobs.com is one of India’s leading recruitment portals, with a database of over 9.5 million candidates. In addition, over two hundred thousand better paying jobs available from over 25,000 recruiters, including blue-chip companies from India and abroad, ensures that a 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.

For more information, please contact:

Mr. Mohit Chopra
National Head – Job Fairs – Service Delivery
TimesJobs.com
Times Business Solutions
b-1-C sector 10 , Noida - 201301
+ 91 9899200063

This release was published on openPR.