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Hire cooks, maids, drivers, office helpers, etc. in India through your friends and neighbors. Here's how:
To get started, click Register with Us For more information please also visit our Frequently Asked Questions. After you have registered, invite people you know to babajob.com and babalife.com (optional). We know that the best employees are often found through people you know and our site will tell you if any job candidate knows anyone you also know.
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Babajob.com is job website and mobile portal dedicated to connecting informal sector workers - cooks, maids, drivers, guards, etc.- and employers to India and eventually worldwide. It’s based on the simple idea that everyone deserves to get a better job – even if you can’t read English and work in another’s home.
Our vision is to ultimately make the informal labor market worldwide efficient by aggregating 100,000s of jobs and millions of job seekers, appropriately matching job posts and job seekers based on proximity, price and social connections (via our social networking site babablife.com as well as others) and then pushing these matched connections to both parties via the web and mobiles (voice, SMS, UssD, etc).
Babajob was based on Duke University research that showed that the primary path out of poverty for the poor was job diversification – i.e. they got other jobs. How did they get these jobs? Traditionally, information and introductions to job opportunities occurred through their social networks, which often acted as the only information dissemination vehicle for jobs. The differences in opportunities among the poor are thus quite drastic, often depending on access and knowledge of higher-paying jobs; for example, there are nannies in Bangalore on our site that make $20/month and others that make $200/month, largely because the latter nanny happened to know someone who knew a rich family, while the former was often born and educated in the slum and only knows employers in the slum.
Furthermore, it’s not as if there are big bulletin boards in rural areas outside of developing world cities advertising all the entry level jobs in the city to villagers, listing which ones pay more or have better working hours. Additionally, there’s no monster equivalent for informal employers either, allowing them rate, sort and filter 100,000s of candidates either.
We know that many of the people who might be hired through babajob.com may not have access to a computer or phone, and so their accounts can be managed by a friend, relative, NGO or even a cyber-café operator – called a mentor.
As of October 2009, we have registered over 85,000 total users, with some 17,000 employers and another 53,000 job seekers. Throughout 2009, we are launching initiatives with major telcos and sending alerts to millions of low paying mobile customers, encouraging them to register their postal code, current salary and desired job category via UssD and later localized automated voice UIs. For $.02/day, subscribers will then receive SMS alerts of better paying jobs in their neighborhood.
We also think it’s important that people can connect with the people they know in new meaningful ways and we’ve created babalife.com, a social networking site that’s made for India and richer than anything else out there. It’s available through both the web and a rich SMS UI; it combines both a blog, photo and video sharing and social-networking site, it’s in your language and importantly it allows you to control who can see each blog post (because sometimes your employer really does not need to know about your weekend) and it allows you to see who actually read what you have written. Babalife.com will also keep you apprised when anyone you know has posted a job or is looking for one.
Well, we hope you enjoy both babalife and babajob and with luck we’ll all keep in better touch and have more economic opportunities.
PS. For more information on the whys and hows of babajob and babalife, please visit our detailed About Us and Frequently Asked Questions pages.
The Babajob Team
Our blog: http://babajob.com/teambj
More About Us
Babajob's Global Philanthropy Forum Presentation April 9, 2008
Here's the deck Sean presented to the Forum in Redwood City. It discusses how we leverage social and financial incentives to
induce people to help job seekers find better jobs and shows a few pix of our upcoming social networking app.
Flash-based version
6MB downloadable version
Babajob and Babalife at Bangalore BarCamp July 28-29, 2007
We introduced Babajob and Babalife, at BarCamp Bangalore and it was a ton of fun. Here's the 16MB (!) slide deck Sean presented if you missed the talk. Here's also a smaller flash based version.
Jeena's wedding! Here you can see a good portion of the babajob staff decked out in our finest in July 2008. From left to right: Sean, Gracey, Asha's sister, Deepa, Jeena's husband, Asha, Vinod's wife, Vinod + his son, Civic, Manjesh and Srinivas.
