‘All Women’, \’Work from Home\’ setup at cajobportal

 

cajobportal.com

Our start up cajobportal.com was launched in August 2013 as India’s first recruitment website exclusively for Chartered Accountants.

During interaction with CA freshers, we realized that ~ 30% of them could ace jobs in the competitive ICAI’s campus placement process. The rest lacked on communication skills, took multiple attempts etc. Some of them relied on friends and relatives to channelize resumes and even the conventional consultants had no specific focus on this space. This led to the genesis of cajobportal.com in Aug’13.

 

We aim to create a vibrant online marketplace for finance human capital. This would catering to full-time (private and public sector) jobs as well as freelance projects for finance professionals

Sonia Singal, aged 29, is a Chartered Accountant and MS-Finance. Prior to engaging with cajobportal.com, she has worked with Deloitte, Hyderabad in the consulting practice. She is the co-founder and heads the entire operations.

Ayush Agarwal, aged 25, is a Commerce graduated and has completed his CA Industrial Training from Hindustan Unilever Ltd. He would be taking his CA Final exams shortly.

 ‘All Women’, \’Work from Home\’ setup

Attracting employees to a start-up is tough. Since we have been bootstrapping, it becomes all the more challenging as we really cannot afford to offer fancy salaries. The awareness in general about start-ups is low and young people don’t know what to expect. For instance, people often judge a company by its ‘posh office’, or working environment, which we didn’t have to offer. The major challenge was finding a person with motivation to work in a startup along with the requisite skillsets. With our clients being the Unilevers and HDFC Banks of the world, we really had to ensure that quality does not go for a toss for want of talent

We offered an ‘All Women’, \’Work from Home\’ setup. Our own employees have been working in an Office w/o Boundaries @ cajobportal.com.  It’s cheaper, more comfortable and relaxed, and it really creates a feeling of community.

Girls, in different parts of the country, who, need to stay at home for various personal reasons and work in trust on our cloud based collaborative platform.

Take the cases where a commerce graduate need to stay at home as her father is suffering from cancer; an MBA whose husband is posted in a spices plantation in remote location at Kerala with no job avenues for herself; a CA, CS & FRM who needs to take care of family after untimely demise of her mother etc.

Coordination was tough as they were in different

Then a project management software – getflow.com helped the entire team works on a collaborative work space, enabling real-time monitoring and seamless integration of efforts.
There are Key Responsibility Areas (KRAs) set out for each team member and they are subject to a 360 degree monthly performance appraisal, which determines their variable pay for the month.

Each employee has to clock 50 hours a week and have the flexibility to choose the timeslots per their convenience

The girls now login their systems at the designated time in the morning, just like they would in a typical office. In fact, they are even marked late for not logging in on time, 3 lates resulting in one leave. They are assigned their respective deliverables for the day, be it social media activities for cajobportal or recruitment projects. They chat in real time to clarify any doubts.

This setup has helped us not only save costs but also allows us to work on ‘bandhs’ which are so prevalent in this part of the country.

Amazing is the fact that this team, which has never physically met for the last one year, has worked in virtual world and done wonders. We’ve helped users of cajobportal.com secure jobs with aggregate CTC of Rs 5 crores in the last one year across marquee names in India, Dubai and Africa.