It took a "journey to self-discovery" and the pursuit of purpose for accountants Aaisha Martin and Nisa Nathu Hari to hang up their 8-4 corporate hats and embark on their entrepreneurial drive with the launch of their start-up, skillpik – an online marketplace for service providers.
The budding entrepreneurs believe their company’s online platform is the perfect place for people to shape their passion into lucrative careers.
“In our continuous journey to self-discovery, we met a couple stumbling blocks on the way but landed on an idea that turned into a business. For us, this was about influencing the way we think, the way we work and the way we dream – helping others through their process of self-discovery,” said Martin.
“How do we find a purpose? Were we alone in this thought process? Can we support others who were just like us? These were a few of the many questions that plagued our minds in the years leading up to the formation of the skillpik platform.”
Put simply, skillpik is a place where you can digitally buy and sell almost any service. The company provides a plethora of services, whether they're something as simple as filling out a visa application form or as complex as developing a mobile application.
Basically, once you provide a service, you can offer your skills on skillpik to anyone visiting the skillpik.com website. Also, people looking for any service can use skillpik to find numerous service providers to choose from.
Martin said, “We are changing the landscape of the job market, changing the way we work. We are drawing the attention to skills, not roles, and we’ve realised that people overlook their skills, the simple things that can add value to someone else’s life.”
From A-Z, skillpik is the ‘Amazon of services’
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Since launching skillpik in August last year, the company has registered over 200 service providers and is currently focused on getting a foothold locally.
“We are currently on a drive to create brand awareness so that service providers know that there is a platform like skillpik out here where they can now have a home to offer their services. As we grow, so too does our team, some of whom have been outsourced using the platform,” Martin said.
“As a marketplace for services, we provide service seekers with an accessible place to find just about any service – from A to Z . What skillpik does is make the reach a lot easier for both parties. We also simplify business by offering a safe e-commerce feature to our users with built in layers of security, an important aspect for any virtual business.”
The co-founders who dubbed skillpik as the ‘Amazon of services,’ said they created the company to bring solutions to real problems by connecting real people with real opportunity.
“Skillpik is a movement. It was created with the local and regional service provider in mind. The skillpik platform is the Amazon of services! A very apt name we create
