This post is written by MathuKathe creator, Nandan Rajan. Imagine trying to find a job without phone, email or internet! You can’t post your profile on job portals, call up companies or email your profile. You are only allowed to talk to friends, relatives and the local recruitment agent that you get to hear by [...]
Babajob.com is looking for a passionate, creative individual to head our activities in Bihar, build up our database of local job seekers and create relationships with local employers. Roles and Responsibilities Develop and build job seeker partnerships, including MFIs NGOs Educational & Vocational Skill training institutes Employment exchanges Develop and build local employer partnerships to [...]
Indicorps, an innovative nonprofit based in India, offers Fellowships for people of Indian origin to implement sustainable grassroots development projects with community-based organizations. As an intense, total-immersion leadership program, Indicorps encourages individuals to explore their role as a catalyst for change. 27 new projects have been announced for the Indicorps 2011 Fellowship. Fellows will tackle [...]
Naukri For Women, is a new job site and one of the first of its’ kind in India. It aims to help women build their careers, without compromising their other responsibilities. It is a known fact that many companies prefer to have women candidates for certain jobs. Naukri For Women aspires to help companies reach [...]
CHF International, an international development firm based in the United States, received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support CHF’s urban development work, and more specifically, create a virtual employment marketplace for day labourers who live in slums. The EarthTimes explains the value of this virtual tool, [...]
The Global Social Venture Competition, a MBA social venture competition that partners several different universities around the world, wrapped up this past weekend at UC Berkeley Haas Business School. The GSVC is one of the most competitive gatherings in the social enterprise world, bringing together business plans that look at both profit and social impact. [...]
Echoing Green, an organization we have both interviewed and posted on, is adding a new twist to their fellowship selection process this year. With twenty-two social entrepreneurs chosen as finalists, EG is asking the public to read their profiles and submit questions. All twenty-two have innovative, new ideas that need critical seed funding to get [...]
India Knowledge @ Wharton features an interview of Ajay Gupta, founder of various institutions that cater to employment necessities in rural India. Ajay Gupta talks about ruralnaukri.com, a job portal for college educated village youth and villegenaukri.com for school graduates. His views about impact rural employment can have on Indian economy are thought provoking. Today, [...]
The Centre for Development Finance (CDF) announces some very exciting internship opportunities for this summer. If you’re looking for something more long term, word has it that CDF will likely be releasing postings for BoP related full time positions in the coming weeks… check back for more information! Total Immersion Programme in Finance and Development [...]
A few headlines regarding the World Bank recently caught my eye, mostly because they are not the usual development headlines I am used to reading. In the Business Standard‘s “Migration to urban areas is good, says World Bank,” and domain-b.com‘s “India’s rural job schemes are barriers to development: World Bank news,” the focus is on [...]
