18 January 2010: Times Business Solutions Limited, the online classifieds division of The Times Group, has launched the technology-specific career portal – TechGig.com, that aggregates everything tech-related at one place for technology professionals; Techies now have the means by which they can significantly enhance their professional growth and success with the latest industry news, views, jobs and much more.
TechGig.com is the world’s first technology-specific, customisable, career portal that not only provides through the best tech jobs exclusively posted by top employers in the sector, but news, blogs, and buzz across the industry. Using TechGig.com, a techie can apply for jobs, personalize their tech space, learn & grow professionally – all on one site.
Speaking on the TechGig.com release, Mr. Vivek Madhukar, VP, TimesJobs.com said, “As TechGig.com is more than just a plain vanilla site, the name was chosen for its catchy originality and strong recall. “Tech” is the universal short form of Technology and “Gig” refers to a single professional engagement, usually of short duration, that is very relevant for Techies, as their job revolves around projects.”
“In the dynamic world of technology, for success, it is crucial for techies to have access to practical online innovations which benefit them in real-time – enhancing their knowledge, employability and performance. With TechGig, the latest industry updates, information and top employers are all in one place.” added Mr. Madhukar.
Mr. Saurabh Arora, Product Head, TimesJobs.com said, “TechGig.com is the first ever site to use TimesJobs Connect, a medium to aggregate your information from TimesJobs.com to other websites. By leveraging TimesJobs Connect, TechGig.com users can bring their information from their profiles on TimesJobs.com to TechGig.com, and can apply to Jobs with their existing resume on TimesJobs.com”
Also TechGig.com brings, among other innovative features, a platform on which technologists can professionally compare themselves with their peers within the tech space and thereby stay ahead of their competition.” added Mr. Arora.
TechGig.com offers Techies a whole variety of user empowering features –
- Professional Growth– Techies can look for current hiring trends in Tech industry, read real time technology news and blogs through Google News/Blogs API and view relevant Information sourced from third party sites such as Wikipedia, Twitter, eBay (Books), Certifications. All this would leave them with a more holistic, career related browsing experience on TechGig.com.
- Open Platform– Techies can leverage their resumes with TimesJobs Connect to apply to Jobs, add their own content feeds, news and blogs.
- Benchmarking– Techies can see which top skills in demand currently, get to know how much their batchmates are earning and in which industry, post their resumes for employers and more.
- Premium Jobs– Deliver tech jobs from top employers. Techies can also get email updates for new jobs being added on selected key skills or by companies that they choose to ‘Follow’.
- Personalization– Techies can personalize TechGig.com homepage for their own specific key skills, can move and collapse widgets to suit their requirements, share this customized interface with friends, view a comparison with their batch mates on CTC and industry that they are working in.
TechGig.com allows users the luxury of tailoring their own technology space, and molding their page into a resource that will allow them to improve their performance, employability, growth prospects and keep abreast of the industry.
So Log onto TechGig.com today!