Akash Mittal is a handsome, energetic and hard working young man. He is presently pursuing the final semester of a five-year integrated Ocean Engineering programme at IIT Kharagpur. As any young man thinking of his future when his studies are nearing completion, he thought to apply to Flipkart for a job. He knew that “Being a six-pointer (CGPA), I knew I will never get through. So, I tried something innovative,” and so he did something innovative. Last week, he made a screenshot of a Flipkart listing page onto which he photoshopped information about himself and uploaded it on to the Flipkart career page.
Well, he may not have been what Flipkart was looking for, but he is most certainly what the world is looking for. We at IndiaFreelancers.com have known all along that the world is very much looking for India’s IT talent.
So this is how the Akash Mittal story then unfolded. He may not have been quickly “snapped up” by Flipkart, but his innovative posting on Flipkart’s career page went “viral” and, as Akash has noted, soon many employers were calling Akash and offering him jobs!
As quoted in an article on EtRetail.com, Akash said that “After this thing got viral, I have received a number of offers, including that of chief product manager and chief technology officer.”
While this is wonderful news for Akash, it is what we at IndiaFreelancers.com have known all along. Employers from all over the world want India’s programmers and web designers. The world is waking up to the enormous quality that is to be found with technology professionals from India at a tremendous value because of the currency exchange. This interaction between employers worldwide and technology experts in India is exactly what we facilitate and bring together on IndiaFreelancers.com. We help to bring the employers and India’s excellent tech professionals together.
Therefore, although we are very, very happy for Akash and the wonderful happy ending to his job application story, we know that if he did not have such a happy ending to his application for employment going “viral”, he could have as well created a profile on IndiaFreelancers.com and earned large sums of money from the employers who would have hired him to develop programs and other application for them through IndiaFreelancers.com.
Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com