Honing skills of women post-delivery

Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society, (APIS) has planned to connect start-ups with women who are desirous of resuming their professional life post maternity break.

Acknowledging the massive challenge women in their post-maternity period face while trying to balance their personal and professional lives, the APIS is creating a platform where their skills can be honoured and utilised efficiently by the start-ups for the overall growth of community.

By providing flexible work timings and facilities like work from home, the goal is to connect startups with women who have prior experience. “The biggest challenge we face in Andhra Pradesh is the shortage of experienced workforce.

Work from home gives us the flexibility to not only attract great talent that otherwise might not want to travel to a location, but also allow exploring the talent pool across the globe,” said Chief Executive Officer of APIS R S Winny Patro.

A poster on the initiative was released on Thursday night by Minister for IT Nara Lokesh and Principal Secretary to IT K Vijayanand. This initiative benefits start-ups and women in parallel. Start-ups cannot afford to hire a full-time professional to reach their work requirements. Hiring workforce with good acquaintance would be of great expense thereby resulting in poor guidance.

The women post-maternity does not prefer to move out of their zone for every reason, and hence keeping this in mind, we wanted to initiate work from home to encourage women, who have experience and the enthusiasm to work, post-maternity, Winny Patro explained.

The number of women who have expanded their careers into entrepreneurship post-maternity has increased significantly in the last ten years. A lot of women, who have the urge to work are still not able to reach their targets due to their unfavourable environments.

This is a great platform for every such woman to come forward and bounce back into their careers. Flexible schedules are another bonus to work remotely with the start-ups, also resulting in stress-free lifestyle.

The firms can have increased insights into local markets when hired from different places. Office space is huge issue that most start-ups face, and hence hiring people to work from home helps them overcome this constraint.

The APIS is playing a key role in the process by collecting the requirements of start-ups by understanding what profile they are looking for, mapping them with the profiles of women who are desirous of resuming their professional life and finally connecting them to the start-ups, the CEO added. One can register their names to avail the opportunity by login into http://bit.ly/balanceforbetter