Dear Power Changers,
As we reach your mailboxes, there is a great new revolution that’s creating Tsunami waves of excitement in Kolkata!

The AVTAR I-WIN – Pantaloon Retail Flexi Careers Assessment Fair for RETAIL is about to change the way women in Kolkata perceive their careers.

As the very first nation-wide initiative to educate, evaluate and select women professionals for Flexi Careers, this event will combine the assessment aspect of an interview with the counseling aspect of a personal meeting. Over 5000 women who seek Flexi Careers will attend these Assessment centers and will benefit out of utilizing their time more productively as well as create a better work-life balance. Jobs ranging from Customer Service, Cashiering, Auditing, IT backend, Visual Merchandising, In-Store Promotion management, etc, will be slotted into short-time, flexi-hours assignments and will be on offer!

On the 23rd, 24th and 25th of October, soon after Durga Pooja, Kolkata will witness the true unleashing of women power!
And very soon, this initiative will be rolled out in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and our own Chennai!

People Enterprise, the Human Resource arm of the Pantaloon Group will partner with AVTAR in reaching housewives, young mothers, senior women professionals and first-time career seekers to empower them with a career that lends itself to the unpredictability of their busy days.

Our congratulations and thanks to the Pantaloon Group for making this possible and we predict, that in true visionary style, you have started off a brave new revolution in this country.

While we at AVTAR revel in the thrill it brings us to create such a unique exercise first time ever, there is some food for thought for you, our Powerchangers, about the way in which the world is morphing. Flexi Careers, says a report actually enhances the happiness quotient of a woman..Read on!

Women happier 'if they work part-time': Study
London, Sept. 24 (PTI): An advice for hubbies who feel working wives jeopardise family life - encourage your better half to opt for a part-time job instead of just homemaking. Yes, researchers in Europe have carried out a study and found that women are the happiest with part-time jobs that allow them to combine work and family life, The Sunday Telegraph reported here Sunday.

"Women prefer part-time jobs. Women with children are significantly happier, if they have a job," according to the researchers - Prof. Alison Booth of Essex University and Jan Van Ours of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In fact, both of them came to the conclusion after conducting interviews of 3,800 couples who were questioned repeatedly over an eight-year period in the British Household Panel Survey.

According to the study, all working women expressed greater "life satisfaction" than housewives with no paid job. The findings held true both for mothers and childless women. The researchers were surprised at their findings on job satisfaction, because "part-time work has traditionally been concentrated in low-paid, low-skilled occupations."

"Half of the women who come to us had 10 years of work experience before they had children, and they don't want to let that go to waste. "They want to find work that is fulfilling but they want to fit their work around their home life," Emma Stewart, a co-founder of the Women Like Us employment agency, which recruits through a word-of-mouth network among primary schools parents, was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

Ladies and Gentlemen, as always, we told you first! AVTAR did predict that Flexi careers are here to stay, long before the London study did.
Happy Powerchanging and we hope we carry your best wishes with us when we begin changing the face of women’s careers in this country.

Saundarya Rajesh