Press Releases

MagicBricks.com launches its new brand campaign to resonate property seekers’ desires with the portal’s internal strengths and firmly establish its position as the No. 1 Property Portal in the country.      February 2013: MagicBricks.com’s new brand campaign spans television, print, mobile, online and social. The campaign features “Rajan” as the face of the brand. Rajan is a 35-year-old property seeker whose been a regular user of MagicBricks.com. Thereby, he has picked up some idiosyncratic traits, which exemplify the most important needs that a typical property seeker seeks from his property portal. Rajan is a self-made man; confident of what he wants and not hesitant to speak his mind. Our man is obsessed with options. He is used to getting the...

Resumax is the first online service that instantly assesses the impact of a resume and scores it based on industry standards and provides detailed feedback and targeted improvements.      February 2013: Using Resumax, jobseekers have a unique opportunity to instantly get customized feedback on their resume and improve their profiles further before they submit their resume to recruiters and apply for jobs. TimesJobs.com has launched Resumax, a unique patent pending platform launched in technology partnership with VMock customized for the time-constrained jobseeker. This is the world’s first resume-builder that computes and scores a candidate resume instantly -providing detailed feedback on which areas need development and how to improve them. While professional resume writers have been available for a long time...

India’s No.1 Property Portal drives Consumer Connect on Social      January 2013: MagicBricks.com, the Leader in the Indian online realty space, has been very proactive in connecting with its users, not just on the website, but on Social as well – becoming one of the pioneers in the Indian context of reaching out to its users on Facebook. Having clocked over 45K likes, the Facebook page of MagicBricks.com sees a lot of activity, both from buyers and sellers, and serves as a valuable launch pad and feedback platform for gaining instant user insight and response. In order to build brand connect and to engage this follower base, MagicBricks.com decided to launch a topical app aimed at the New Year –...

Validate & Certify your profile with the New Profile Endorsements feature on TimesJobs.com that enhances and updates your profile with LinkedIn Data and Facebook References      January 2013: What do Scott Thompson of Yahoo, David Edmonson of Radio Shack, Rob Kalin of Etsy, Marilee Jones of MIT, Ronald Zarrella of Bausch & Lomb, Jeff Papows of Lotus Corp., have in common? They are high profile professionals who “creatively enhanced” their resumes over the years – and then paid a dreadful price. The most well known fall from grace due to resume fraud last year was Scott Thompson, Yahoo’s ex-CEO. The former president of PayPal graduated from Stonehill College in Massachusetts with a degree in accounting – but he also claimed...

Introducing TimesJobs.com’s Career Play – The new age Career Timeline for the Mobile Individual      Career Play is a simple and fun way to keep all your professional information at one central place. No need to remember what you did, when. Just log it into your personal catalogue @Career Play as it happens. What is one of the most tedious yet necessary tasks to ensure you get your Next Big Break? Yes, It’s updating your resume. Most professionals don’t update their resume more than once a year – That too is done in a rushed and hurried fashion – when an opportunity knocks. Only when someone asks you for your updated profile or at the time of appraisals you try...

Backed by popular demand, the “Decor” section on MagicBricks.com has been completely revamped and recast. In its new avatar, Decor becomes a content-driven site – providing the best possible advice, guidance and local resources for “Styling up a home”.      December 18, 2012: MagicBricks.com has been on the forefront of innovation in the online real estate market, and had launched its new section on home improvements – aptly branded as Decor a little over 6 months ago. Being a responsive and proactive site, MagicBricks.com conducted a number of surveys and sought user feedback of how it can provide more value to users of the Decor section. And this revamp has been done in line with user expectations for a site...

The sixth edition of MagicBricks.com’s PropIndex, the first Index of its kind that tracks demand and supply of properties across 11 major cities of India, hit the stands! 05 December 2012      December 2012: Despite weak buyer sentiments, the National Property Index (NPI) went up by over 2 per cent in the Jul-Sept’ 2012 quarter as compared to Apr-Jun’ 2012 quarter. Of the 11 cities in the apartment Index, 9 cities showed a rise in the property index values – led by the southern metros of Bangalore & Hyderabad. Based on dynamic data mined from MagicBricks.com, PropIndex focuses on the National Property Index (NPI), a weighted average of city indices. The data from India’s No.1 property portal is refined with...

State Bank of India (SBI) the largest banking and financial services company in India by revenue, assets and market capitalization awarded MagicBricks.com from Times Business Solutions Limited (TBSL) the title of “Partner in Prosperity”.      November 2012: Employers today are ready to experiment with their hiring strategies and gamification seems to be another innovation approach in this direction. According to the survey results, nearly 25% employers already use gamification for the purpose of recruitment. They screen potential candidates for attributes like competitive drive and multitasking abilities that would set them apart from other candidates who are only academically qualified for the job. Gamification plays an important role in crowdsourced recruitment. Madu Ratnayake, Vice President social business strategy & global quality...

State Bank of India (SBI) the largest banking and financial services company in India by revenue, assets and market capitalization awarded MagicBricks.com from Times Business Solutions Limited (TBSL) the title of “Partner in Prosperity”. 14 November 2012      The Managing Director of India’s Biggest Bank, Mr. A. Krishna Kumar presented a Citation to MagicBricks.com with a salutatory plaque inscribed with the SBI insignia and the words, “In Recognition of our Continuing Partnership for Prosperity” at the SBI Navratra Property Carnival organized by TBSL’s flagship property portal MagicBricks.com recently. The SBI Navratra Property Carnival was a joint event conducted by MagicBricks.com in association with “State Bank of India” – as a successful pilot for a brand new format for property shows...

State Bank of India (SBI) the largest banking and financial services company in India by revenue, assets and market capitalization awarded MagicBricks.com from Times Business Solutions Limited (TBSL) the title of “Partner in Prosperity”. 14 November 2012      The Managing Director of India’s Biggest Bank, Mr. A. Krishna Kumar presented a Citation to MagicBricks.com with a salutatory plaque inscribed with the SBI insignia and the words, “In Recognition of our Continuing Partnership for Prosperity” at the SBI Navratra Property Carnival organized by TBSL’s flagship property portal MagicBricks.com recently. The SBI Navratra Property Carnival was a joint event conducted by MagicBricks.com in association with “State Bank of India” – as a successful pilot for a brand new format for property shows...

According to a survey conducted by TimesJobs.com, 70% organisations out of nearly 1000 surveyed use social networking sites to identify and source passive Gen-Y candidates      October 2012: “Candidates are more accessible and comfortable in the social sphere as they can gather unbiased feedback about their prospective employer from current employees through social sites,” said Purva Misra, senior vice president human resources, MakeMyTrip.com at the Boardroom Dialogue organised by TimesJobs.com. As per a TimesJobs.com survey, 49% of the surveyed employers believe that the key benefit of social recruiting is its potential to reach the inaccessible passive candidates. Nearly 18% employers opined that employing social networking tools would help them source and hire potential tech savvy candidates. Faster filling up of...

India’s leading Technology Community Portal launches mobile webapp TechGig.com launches its mobile webapp for easy access to the latest News, Tests and Webinars in the Technology Space. Access it now by visiting m.techgig.com on your mobile....

Over 7000 property seekers walk in to buy property from Properties from Delhi/NCR, Jaipur, Bhiwadi and Daruhera areas” The Property Expo 2012, an exclusive property fair by MagicBricks.com – India’s Leading Real Estate Portal promoted by Times Business Solutions, was held at...

The second bi-annual edition of TimesJobs.com RecruiteX provides an in-depth and insightful report on the demand and supply of Jobs and the recruitment trends in India....

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