We are all aware of the fact that there are excellent, tailor-made and deserving candidates who are unable to find the employers who are hunting for them.
Let’s not blame it on karma. It is because the majority of us, after being herded through our schooling systems, apply the principle of using the right methodology. Experimentation is alien to most.
The right methodology stuff can perhaps apply to performing in a job, but not to navigating for jobs in the turbulence of the job market.
There is no right way; there are choices along with the flukes, chances and shots.
Our approach to job hunting, unfortunately, is an orientation towards finding vacancies. What about the gigantic part of the job market that is not visible – vacancies that are with placement firms? Now most would go around with lists of placement firms, but how many jobseekers have figured out how to market themselves to placement firms? It’s not about submitting your resume at the right place at the right time. It’s entirely a different ball game – Not very dissimilar from what you do with an employer in an interview, but totally dissimilar from what you need to do to compete with the billion others that the placement firm exercises a choice on.
Figuring out is about an ability to experiment and fail. If you did your schooling in India, then failing two or three times, meant that you were politely told to leave an educational institution because you were more stupid than others. Today, I am told that the perfect formula for success is getting 99% of the answers right.
We need to grow up fast. Scholastic approaches to job hunting will not work, because, in India, even if you score 100 %, the other guy may still catch the job. You still have to figure out another way to win it.
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