Continuing from part 1 of this conversation, Shreya Prakash, IIM B alum, shares how she quit a lucrative and cushy job at HUL to start her own company, FlexiBees.
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Shreya shares her HUL experience equipped her with understanding sales and marketing from the ground up. But she soon realised that the more time she spent in her job, the higher the opportunity cost, and quitting would always be tough.
Having a problem to solve, and the drive to do something about it, Shreya decided to move on from HUL.
Shreya shares how the idea for FlexiBees was born. She talks about how women have to constantly break glass ceilings and that becomes even tougher after they have taken a break from careers.
Women who take maternity breaks for example, find it difficult to get back in the workforce. Shreya shares how one of her co-founder too faced this after her child was born.
In order to provide more opportunities to women who want to rejoin careers after taking a break, Shreya and her team founded FlexiBees, a platform where top talent can be recruited by organizations.
She shares how gender roles in society are a result of bias and conditioning, but also exist because effort is not taken to overcome these biases.
Shreya tells us about how her company has managed to help many women go back to work after a career break, on their own terms. She talks about how flexibility is a key factor when these women look for work.
Finally, Shreya talks about how it was a difficult choice to make, moving on from HUL. She tells us that there are days when self doubt creeps in, despite all the inspirational results.
But, she shares, it’s imperative to have a sense of purpose and an awareness of the bigger picture when starting up.
From information on how companies hire, and how these processes can be more inclusive, to highlights about entrepreneurship, this conversation is a must watch. Here are some highlights:
In corporate jobs, you might end up being typecast in one role or vertical; You may feel stagnancy creeping into work.
There is nothing else that’s predictable, nothing else that you can say for certain, except that nothing will remain the same.
The ability to learn and adapt is a skill everyone needs to cultivate today.
Look for skills rather than experience when hiring.
Managers and leaders in organizations can take the onus of explaining why and how relationships work in professional life to make communication smoother.
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contribution to the GDP is not the only worthy goal of life! Why should this be done for women only. everyone should be allowed to go home early… children need to find time with their fathers as well.
It seems to me they are only concerned about the white collar women participation which is only a single digit number. What about the daily wage woman laborer ? who will take care of their children when they are at work? how will you get work from home for these women ?
The objective of life is not to grow the balance sheet of the corporates. Rearing and moulding the lives of children is also important.
Smart women. Loved how she saw a problem and fixed it ❤
Most of us aspire to have money and fame at an early age
Its down the road we realize that spouse family kids are the ones for whom we strive
Both parents when engaged in work often have to ignore many needs of their kids
If one parent drops out or selects a lower paying easy job to maintain a balance, its perfectly fine…most of the times its the woman because kids are more attached to moms than dads. It comes naturally to ladies…there nothing to feel bad about it
Our prime objective is to have a happy successful family here which should never be ignored
P.S. my mother and wife both are working professionals
feminists here as well…😪😪
Catchy title, can anybody explain how this is related to title?