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Sean Blagsvedt
CEO and Founder, Babajob.com

"Leveraging Mobile Technology to Connect India's Informal Sector"
1. How Babajob helps connect employers to job seekers
2. Reaching out to the informal sector
3. Governments should facilitate accurate data on job seekers
4. Governments should facilitate job-seeker verifications
5. Scope for public-private partnerships

How can employers with low-skill job openings in the informal sector (such as for cooks, maids, security guards, and office helpers) efficiently connect with potential employees? In India, since 2007, there's been a Bangalore-based web and mobile start-up—babajob.com—trying to do that via the web, mobile apps, SMS, the mobile web, and voice services. We spoke with Sean Blagsvedt, the company's founder and Chief Executive Officer, who told us that Babajob now has a presence in every state in India, with about 500,000 registered job seekers and 70,000 employers using the platform. We asked how the government could help digital marketplaces? He said what's needed are less costly, standardized ways to secure accurate data on job seekers and verify their identities.