Online marketplace for blue-collar jobs babajob.com has pertnered with Facebook to help small ventures share and discuss ideas to grow their enterprises on the SME India Council. SME India Council is a Facebook initiative to help small ventures from various industries to come together and discuss ideas around leveraging technology to grow their enterprise.
This is the second SME Council set up by Facebook globally, the first one being in the US.
Globally, more than 45 million small businesses actively use Facebook Pages to connect to their consumers. The group will meet throughout the year to discuss new ideas, share feedback and work with Facebook to build better ads solutions.
"babajob.com, a job site in India which uses Internet.org's Free Basic Services app has had 60,000 people visit the site and over 10 per cent of them apply for jobs online. This means that 6,000 people who were once unconnected now have an opportunity to apply for a job,' said Facebook's chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg in her post.
