Last Day@DESIS

DeShaw India Software Pvt Ltd. - that is the place I started my career with! I must say an extremely wonderful place, full of great people! I started out on 6th of June, 2005, and since then the last 16 months have been extremely fulfilling. Really the first organization one joins always stays very near to the heart, and so is DESIS. One of the things that I really appreciate about the management at DESIS is that they take a very good care of their employees. In short it was great to have association with one of the best companies to work with!

So where am I going next??
A question that many people have asked me. I along with a few of my friends will be bootstrapping for some time to build our startup. We shall be working in the corporate hiring domain, and will focus mostly on the niche market of campus recruitment.

So what exactly is the problem that we have set out to solve??
We set out our journey with the following proposition - We will build an application that will help the educational institutes to run their placement process efficiently. We experienced a lot of glitches in the placement office @ IIT Kanpur (our Alma Mater), and thought of building a Placement Office Automation tool. 6 months of part-time development effort gave birth to ERGO (our flagship product). ERGO is an automation tool that the placement offices of various educational institutes can make use of to streamline the placement procedure and conduct the campus placements more efficiently.
Later, our business model changed a little and we are now planning to build a full-fledged recruitment portal to bring the educational institutions and the companies in touch with each other and to manage their campus recruitment efficiently, and at the same time access a large pool of recruiters/applicants in one go!
Not that we have sabotaged ERGO - we are actively marketting it in various educational institutes, and have already deployed it at IIT Kanpur. The new campus-recruitment portal that we will build will be based upon ERGO.

Are we same as Naukri.com or other conventional jobsite in india??
No we are not! We have focussed ourselves on one vertical of corporate recruitments i.e. Campus Placements. Our objective is to help the educational institutes to carry on their campus placement activities efficiently and also to come in touch with a large pool of recruiters. This will help them in increasing their campus-placement record and also help the companies to reduce their campus recruitment costs.

So, this is what I am going to do next. Its getting increasingly difficult to manage a day job and focus on the startup idea, so took the decision of quitting the job! I definitely am a little apprehensive, but I had to take this step. If I dont do it today, I shall never be able to do it. This is the correct time for me to pursue my dreams. I hope it works out well!