Open Letter to Job Portals & Placement Agencies

Title: Don’t Sell Us Mercedes When We’re Begging for a Scooter

Dear Job Portals & Placement Agencies,

Arrey bhai, why do you treat us like Fortune 500 companies in disguise?

You give us gold-plated subscriptions, ₹1,000 per resume downloads, enterprise dashboards with bells and whistles. Bas ek problem hai—we’re broke founders trying to hire one multitasking soul who won’t quit after the first all-nighter.

Example? A friend startup paid ₹40,000 for 20 “verified resumes.” Half turned out to be BPO staff looking for night shifts, two were already in Dubai, and one was a duplicate with the same photo but a new name!

We don’t need endless PDFs. We need real humans who survive chaos, not 100 glossy profiles with fake LinkedIn smiles.

🎬 Filmy Mic Drop: “Startup founders aren’t Infosys HR heads. Hum toh jugaadu hain—ek scooter ka budget leke, aap hume Mercedes bechne aate ho.”

Sincerely,

An Intern-Hunting, Broke Startup Founder