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Hire cooks, maids, drivers, office helpers, etc. in India through your friends and neighbors. Here's how:

  1. Register with your mobile number or email address. We'll then send you a 5-digit password key to complete your registration.
  2. Review our job seekers' records for free. We allow you to search and filter our job seekers to see if there are enough promising candidates who meet your needs. For example, if you want a live-in maid to work in your neighborhood and there are none in our database, then it probably makes sense to check back in several weeks and buy a posting if you do find suitable candidates.
  3. If you find several job seekers you like, buy Phone Number Access or Post a Job for Rs 599 in Bangalore (currently FREE outside of Bangalore for a trial period). Your payment grants you phone number access for all our job seekers so you can phone and interview any of them, but our Terms of Use limits you to hiring one person for each search fee you pay.
  4. Tell us whom you hired.  This is very important because it allows us to properly compensate the right mentor - who helped a job seeker register with us - and those people that may connect you to your new employee.

To get started, enter your mobile or email address and click Register. For more information please also visit our Frequently Asked Questions.

After you have registered, invite people you know to babajob.com and babalife.com (optional). We know that the best employees are often found through people you know and our site will tell you if any job candidate knows anyone you also know. If you hire a candidate through someone you know on babajob.com, we'll also pay up to 2 of your "connecting friends" Rs 100.

Welcome tobabalife.com

We are India's best mobile social website, where you can connect with the people you know and earn cash when you help them find jobs.


Create a photo and video blog – without telling all the world about it
You can set who can - and who can't - see what you've written. You can also see who has read each post.
Get all of babalife via SMS
Scrapping, blogging and instant access to what people you know are doing and writing - available on every mobile.
Socialize in your own language
Welcome to the first social networking, blog and job site in Kannada, Tamil and Hindi (with more to come as we expand beyond Bangalore).

Plus earn money when you connect people you know – including people with informal sector jobs – to employers on babajob.com

About Us

Babajob.com and babalife.com are a combined effort to provide the best social networking and job site in India and eventually worldwide. It’s based on the simple idea that everyone deserves to get a better job – even if you can’t read English and work in another’s home. Most people find jobs through people they know – namely their extended social network – and most employers – particularly when hiring employees that work in the home, would like to hire a person who someone they trust can vouch for.

Babajob and babalife are an attempt to digitize this process to efficiently “get the word out” and importantly provide an incentive for the folks in between an employer and employee to connect people together.

Here’s an example: Let’s say Rajesh is looking for a cook and places an ad with us for Rs 599. After searching on babajob.com, he ultimately decides to hire his uncle’s driver’s sister. Assuming all these folks are on babalife.com, then both Rajesh’s uncle and his driver, will earn Rs 100.

We know that many of the people who might be hired through babajob.com may not have access to a computer or phone, and so their accounts can be managed by a friend, relative, NGO or even a cyber-café operator – called a mentor. Again, whenever someone is hired, their mentor earns Rs 200.

We also think it’s important that people can connect with the people they know in new meaningful ways and we’ve created babalife.com, a social networking site that’s made for India and richer than anything else out there. It’s available through both the web and a rich SMS UI; it combines both a blog, photo and video sharing and social-networking site, it’s in your language and importantly it allows you to control who can see each blog post (because sometimes your employer really does not need to know about your weekend) and it allows you to see who actually read what you have written. Babalife.com will also keep you apprised when anyone you know has posted a job or is looking for one, so that you too can earn Rs 100 as a “connector” between an employer and employee.

Right now babajob.com is limited to jobs in Bangalore that generally pay under Rs 10,000 (about $250) per month. With time, we plan to expand to other cities and include additional job categories as our customers demand them.

Well, we hope you enjoy both babalife and babajob and with luck we’ll all keep in better touch and have more economic opportunities.

PS. For more information on the whys and hows of babajob and babalife, please visit our detailed About Us and Frequently Asked Questions pages.

The Babajob Team
Our email addresses
Our blog: http://babajob.com/teambj

More About Us
Babajob's Global Philanthropy Forum Presentation April 9, 2008
Here's the deck Sean presented to the Forum in Redwood City. It discusses how we leverage social and financial incentives to induce people to help job seekers find better jobs and shows a few pix of our upcoming social networking app.
Flash-based version
6MB downloadable version

Babajob and Babalife at Bangalore BarCamp July 28-29, 2007
We introduced Babajob and Babalife, at BarCamp Bangalore and it was a ton of fun. Here's the 16MB (!) slide deck Sean presented if you missed the talk. Here's also a smaller flash based version.

Pic of the day

Jeena's wedding! Here you can see a good portion of the babajob staff decked out in our finest in July 2008. From left to right: Sean, Gracey, Asha's sister, Deepa, Jeena's husband, Asha, Vinod's wife, Vinod + his son, Civic, Manjesh and Srinivas.

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