BWDisrupt interacted with Ms. Neha Bagaria,Co-Founder & CEO,JobForHer, a startup founded to connect working women to attractive opportunities in the industryHow was the startup conceptualised?JobsForHer was started by Neha in March 2015 with a few other women returnees working out of a coworking space in Bangalore. It stayed under the radar for the first year, limiting to operations only in Bangalore, and establishing product-market fit.
Things have come a long way since then - JobsForHer now has a 30-member team including a CTO/CO-founder who is ex-Snapdeal, a AVP Diversity Talent Solutions who is ex-LinkedIn and a robust team of women getting back to work. We are now working with 1600 companies across India in diverse industries to get other women back to work.
The company was founded in 8th March 2015 by entrepreneur Neha Bagaria, a woman who had taken a break in her own career like many other women professionals in India, who had to give up their flourishing careers to focus on their family, and are now willing to rejoin the workforce.
What does the startup do?JobsForHer is a Bengaluru-based connecting portal that enables women on a professional break to restart their careers. Its vision is to reverse female brain drain within the Indian workforce by facilitating various job opportunities to women who were on sabbatical, and help them reconnect with their careers. Neha Bagaria took a 3.6-year break in her own career when she had her children. During this personal journey, she became aware of the various difficulties a woman faces in order to re-enter the workforce.
Providing second career job opportunities for women on a career break, Providing career-related services such as confidence building workshops, resume-writing assistance, job-readiness workshops, etc for women on a career-break. 2)Providing companies a platform to hire relevant female talent pool 2)Enable companies in supporting and fulfilling their diversity requirements 3)Identify and curate opportunities for our clients to help maximise gender diversity at their workplace
What is the working model of this company?We are the only online portal in India to offer job opportunities and career-related services exclusively for women on a career-break. JobsForHer boasts of pioneering diversity outreach programmes with some of the biggest companies in India to help women on a career break re-join the workforce. JobsForHer is a self-funded business.
The dynamic venture works on a freemium model, through which companies are welcome to post job openings for free on its platform and women can apply for them for free. It also offers various professional solutions to companies to help them promote their job profiles, and/or partner with JobsForHer to run recruitment drives, reskilling programs, and returnee internship programs.
What is the space & opportunities you are working for?JobsForHer Currently operates in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. It has 1,00,000 users visiting the website on a monthly basis and have 1600+ companies hiring women through our portal. JobsForHer is committed to doing everything necessary to enable a woman to restart her career. From finding suitable job opportunities, to reskilling to leveraging community.
We employ multiple marketing channels, including digital marketing, social media marketing,alliance marketing, and a robust ambassador network across Indian cities which works as a strong support network for women restarters. We truly believe that there's no more powerful marketing channel than the word-of-mouth.
Talk about the unique key services of your startup?● To re-build the confidence in our users to return to work after a break
● To identify & create job opportunities & programmes that will make the career transition for women on a break easier.
● 1.5 mn professionally qualified women in India go on a break each year and we intend to facilitate each one of them restart their career through JobsForHer
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