'75% professionals still depend on referrals for assignments'

Professional service providers such as CAs, lawyers and company secretaries in India work in a highly unorganised manner as three-fourths of them still depend on referrals to seek assignments, says a survey.
According to a survey by MeetUrPro.Com, an online marketplace for professional services, professionals including CAs, lawyers, company secretary are still dependent on their friends and families for their assignments.
They are underpaid and have to wait more than two months in certain cases after completion of their assignments for getting their payment, it said.
"The professional services sector in India is a highly unorganised one. There is no avenue that a professional in India can source work from except through his personal network," MeetUrPro.Com Co-Founder Divakar Vijayasarthy said.

Vijayasarthy further said the fact that almost the entire sector is away from the online revolution is a dampener.
The survey suggests that only 10 per cent of the professionals get their assignments online.
"Going online will help them access a larger and diverse set of clients, different kinds of work requirements across geographies and thus be assured of good compensation at par with their international counterparts," he added.
The pan-India survey was conducted online on 800 professionals including CAs, lawyers, company secretary, cost accountant and professionals from other services.