Babajob.com witnesses the Pokémon Go fever and offers fans an opportunity to become an official Pokémon Catcher
India 18th July 2016: Are you out there catching Pokémons? Have you joined any ‘Pokémon Walk’ yet? If not, you are surely missing out the excitement the entire world is experiencing by playing today’s most talked about game - Pokémon Go. The game has become popular overnight and it has taken the industry by a storm. Even employees at Babajob.com, India’s largest livelihood marketplace for the next billion, are chasing Bulbasaur, Charmander and Pikachu. To express their love and support for the game and most importantly the technology behind it, Babajob.com has announced its new job category: ‘The Pokémon Catcher’.
Apart from other popular job categories like Driver, Maid, Delivery, etc., Babajob will now offer an opportunity to fans to become an official Pokémon Catcher. The job portal already has about 7 million Jobseekers, and over 4, 00, 000 employees, and aims to take their customer base even higher by attracting Pokémon Go fan base.
Another big fan of the game, Sean Blagsvedt, Founder & CEO, Babajob.com and Level 2 Pokémon Handler (meaning he still can't go to a gym :-( ) said, "Just as companies like Flipkart, Amazon, OLA and UBER transformed and greatly expanded the delivery and driver job categories, we see Pokémon Go doing the same for Catchers. Babajob will be the premier portal for players everyone to hire screened, verified Pokémon Catchers. It's an amazing time."
Register yourself as a Pokémon Catcher now by logging on to www.babajob.com.
About Babajob:
Based out of Bangalore, Babajob is India’s largest livelihood marketplace, facilitating jobs for the next billion in India. At present, we have about 7 million+ registered job seekers and 400,000+ employers.
We are shaping the way people hire and get hired. By seamlessly connecting employers and job seekers through multiple platforms (IVR/Web/Mobile), we make jobs accessible to everyone, and make hiring fast and easy. Present across a host of categories, we are helping drivers, delivery executives, nurses, beauticians, entry-level sales professionals, BPO executives and many others with access to better employment opportunities. Basically, we are in the business of upgrading lives!
Our employers are individuals, households, SMEs and enterprises/other tech start-ups - making us the backend of the tech ecosystem in India today. We have also been working closely with the Government over the last few months, having signed MoUs with the Labour Ministry and the Govt. of Karnataka. Babajob has raised over $12m in funding from SEEK, Gray Ghost Ventures, Khosla Impact and USAID.