Timesjobs.com Partners NowPos to Launch World’s First Voice Resume Suite for BPOs

Timesjobs.com, the fastest growing e-recruitment portal in India, has entered into a strategic partnership with NowPos Online Services Pvt. Ltd., (“NowPos” – short for Now Possible), a niche premier Voice Technologies Products Company based in Hyderabad, to launch the world’s first voice resume and BPO online voice screening mechanism service. The service is exclusively targeted at the BPO 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 resides on www.timesjobs.com portal and has been developed by NowPos.

“The partnership with Timesjobs.com creates several unique solutions for the sunrise BPO industry presently, and will be later extended to the entire HR industry, where CVs, first round short-listing and subsequent interviews, empowered by NowPos patent-applied voice technology, will change the way jobs are to be found, and people recruited,” said Ayyappa Nagubandi, Leader (title equivalent of CEO), NowPos.

“The prospect of launching the world’s first voice resume and BPO online voice screening mechanism on our portal is tremendously exciting, as it offers revolutionary potential to change BPO recruitment processes in India. This will cut recruitment cycles, reduce costs, time and manpower involved in recruitment and enable BPO companies to enter a straight third-round interview after the online shortlisting of CVs. We are delighted to bring this unique offering to the BPO industry, which will soon be part of our jobs fairs and virtual job fairs,” said R Sundar, President, Timesjobs.com.

The product, branded as TALKIES, was extensively beta-tested and is currently available on www.timesjobs.com. The product has already been demonstrated successfully to 16 major BPO players, all eager customers of this new service.

Yash Maroli, AVP – Recruitment, exlService.com, observed, “Voice Resumes will allow EXL to pre-screen candidates and help us increasing the pool-size of talent, we at EXL feel TimesJobs.com will play a pivotal role in technology enabled E-recruitment.”

Ms. Shefali, Manager – HR, Global Vantedge. concurred, “Global Vantedge’s relationship with TimesJobs.com is very bright; innovative products such as the Voice Resume are a very good idea and a great tool to assess candidates’ voice capabilities, it will be an effective tool to enable us to shortlist the right voice profiles.”


“We spend a lot of time calling the candidates and rejecting them based on their communication skills. With TimesJobs Talkies we will be able to screen the candidate based on these recordings, without having to reach the candidate and putting him through tests. We have been associated with TimesJob.com since beginning and these kinds of innovations will help strengthen the relation ship further,” said C K Taneja, GM, Greenfield Online.

“We at NowPos are delighted to bring this unique product that empowers our partner timesjobs.com to change the rules of online recruitment, and charge-up the BPO industry. Soon we will be extending the service to non-BPO industry as well… Surely this solution will make timesjobs.com the most significant job portal for BPOs very soon. Our ability to strategically empower the core of our clients and partners is a foundation of our success,” said Ayyappa.

“TimesJobs Talkies will aid employers screen candidates more efficiently, reducing their pre-recruitment processes, while at the same time candidates will not have to go from place to place for numerous interviews and face rejection – this is a win-win solution for all.” said Sundar.

The path-breaking solution “TimesJobs Talkies” is an unparalleled solution from TimesJobs.com which allows candidates to record, store and place their voice over the internet. Candidates record their voice in two parts, one is a read-out of a random paragraph to gauge diction, and, the other is an open speech on a topic provided to them, to gauge fluency.


About TimesJobs.com:
TimesJobs.com, the fastest growing and most innovative Indian online recruitment portal has a database of over 5 million job seekers and over 15,000 clients including blue-chip companies from India and abroad. The portal has a unique functionality that it allows a job seeker to post multiple resumes, a useful feature in today’s multi-tasking environment. In addition, the massive database of two hundred thousand jobs available on the site ensures that the search always yields results.

For employers, TimesJobs.com comes with a unique “Empower” solution, which provides for ease of making recruiting decisions. TimesJobs.com provides 360-degree solutions to the candidates and Clients while offering economical and timesaving tools such as PowerFilter, PowerHire & CampusDirect. Some important services provided include Database Access, Focus Targeted emails, Magic Resume Services, Resume Blaster, Virtual & Ground Job Fairs, etc. TimesJobs.com has pioneered the concept of job fairs and established a pan-India reach by establishing offices in 20 prominent cities across the country.



About NowPos:
NowPos Online Services Pvt. Ltd. (‘NowPos’, short for Now Possible) (www.nowpos.com), is an R&D-led Voice Technology Company. Its innovative approach has allowed it to create new paradigms in harnessing the power of “voice” and fuse it with the reach of the Internet and all its diversified applications. Online Voice, a traditionally weak link in the world of the web, finds new echoes through the distinct possibility-creating approach of NowPos.

NowPos, rated by Frost & Sullivan at the top of the “Top 20 Broadband Innovations in Asia Pacific, was the only Indian company in the list. NowPos has also lived up to the expectations of industry pundits, like US tech-business magazine, Red Herring, which named NowPos as the “Top 8 Indian Start-ups to watch out for”.

NowPos, a wide ranging voice technologies company, has subsequently launched products in several industries and domains – including its Voice Portal product for several online businesses, voice intranet for large and medium knowledge economy corporations, banking, telecom, and a unique community portal solution.