Click to play videoBangalore: Lakshmi works in Bangalore as domestic help. She knows exactly what her employers, the Patils, like to eat and what their habits are, so she can serve them best.
Lakshmi says she loves her new job and her employers, whom she found not through neighbourhood references, but through a website for unskilled labourers, babajob.com.
"I told a friend that I need a job and I don't know where to find one. Later she brought me a form and asked me to go on the site. I went there and met a lady called Asha. She took my identity proof and address proof. Within 15 days they gave me the address of this house where I came and joined the job," says Lakshmi.
Lakshmi's employers, who are all praise for their new domestic help, say the website helped them find just who they were looking for.
"I could not see 10 or 12 but almost 50 different categories of domestic help, like cook or full-day maid. The website people assured me transparency and that gave me confidence," says Lakshmi's employer Radhika Ajay Patil.
Babajob.com works by paying people to find job seekers and register them. Since most employers prefer to hire a person who can be vouched for, the website also pays Rs 100 to people who act as connectors between employers and employees.
The website makes its money by charging employers Rs 800 to place an advertisement.
CEO, babajob.com, Sean Olin Blagsvedt says, "About 4,200 people have signed up till now and of that, there are 2,000 people seeking a job and the rest are people seeking to employ them."
It's a social networking site of a different kind, and for unskilled workers who were traditionally not thought of as net savvy, it's an opportunity to break a few myths.
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