Startups find employees via speed dating!

This Startup Saturday, over 60 start-ups Speed Dated 250 candidates at the India’s first ‘Speed Dating for Startup Hiring’ Session. A unique event held at American Center in Delhi was organized by HeadStart network.  Every session spread over one hour, each startup met more than 20 candidates. Two speed dating sessions were held for tech and non-tech roles.

 

The startups hired for various roles including Developers, Sales, Designers, Social Media, Content Development, Operations among many more. Startups from various sectors including education, e-commerce, travel, social media, microfinance and internet marketing enthusiastically participated in the event. Ankur Singla, Founder, Akosha said “The hiring event was a great success for us. I've never seen so much enthusiasm towards working in Startups and never met so many candidates in a single event ever. We found some really awesome coders whom we are meeting next week. Great work by Headstart guys!”

 

Start-ups that attended the event included Perky Lane, Zedoo, Modern Robotics, Voicetap, Valuehire, The Money Guys, We Are Holidays, BaseApp, Voice Tree Technology, Zinger Panoply,      Zaakpay/ Mobikwik, iDubba, Sparklin, Flick2Know, ServiceEscape, Edutopper.com, Akosha, Evento, Mera Career Guide, E2E Networks, Store Zapp, Memetic Labs, Buzzaria, Study Copter, Sky Bulls, Roch Realty, StudyCopter, Cell Strat, Innobuzz Knowledge Solution, Voicetree Technologies, Megstrat Consulting, Edutopper.com, Grefit.com, Velocity Software, Shaadi Invite, Zazzy Box, Serviceescape, Posist, Yavvy.com among others.

 

“A role with a startup offers much more than a conventional job. Besides equity, there is more freedom to experiment and more exposure in a shorter duration,” said Ritwik Sahoo a final year engineering student. Organised by Headstart Network, Startup Saturdays are held every second Saturday of the month. 

 

Every event is based on a theme. “Finding passionate people enthusiastic about working with startups has always been a challenge. We wanted to create a unique platform to bring 100s of such people together to meet startups,”said Arpit Agarwal,  Manager at Tlabs and volunteer at Startup Saturday.

 

Startup Saturday Delhi is a forum for the entrepreneurial community, to come together once a month - and talk about what it takes to be a part of it. The community has held over 40 events and has supported over 2500 startups since its inception in 2008. The forum invites people with all sorts of profiles to talk about their products, services, ideas, problems et al. It makes it interesting for the audience to become a part of the think-tank - that's what each one of our attendee likes to be.