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AVTAR signs deal with Pantaloon Retail

CHENNAI: HR consulting firm, AVTAR Career Creators, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pantaloon Retail India of Future Group to offer flexi-time career opportunities for women professionals.

A pilot project is set to be launched in Kolkata soon. “We are looking at skills across the spectrum. Women who have prior relevant work experience as well as women who possess the requisite soft skills will be assessed and offered spot letters,” says Saundarya Rajesh, Chief Executive of AVTAR Career Creators.

Positions are offered in areas such as IT infrastructure management, warehouse activities, audit, customer relationship management and store operations.

Jobs in event management, in-store promotions, locality mapping and human resources are also available, according to Ms. Saundarya Rajesh. With over 3,000 part-time or flexi-time jobs on offer, this would well be the biggest such opportunity for women professionals in India, she said.

“Women who seek part-time careers with an accent on work-life balance will find this a refreshing alternative,” she added. The project would target those who had cut short their careers due to assorted pressures. “We shall also assess first time career seeking housewives,” she said.

Through this initiative, women who wish to work for less than a couple of hours a day can still be employable. “Women have always driven sales at Pantaloons, Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar. To understand retail, one has to understand women. And, no one does it better than women themselves. We felt the need to engage more women and, hence, the decision to chart careers for mothers and housewives in the organisation,” a release quoted Kripesh Hariharan, General Manager of People Enterprise, the research and development wing of Pantaloon Retail that works on HR innovations, as saying.

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