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Job seekers in India, need to use rejection as a positive feed back mechanism

Lima Sehgal

However seasoned, no one can get immune to the aches and pains of the job hunting process.

What we tend to do is get into a mindset of either aggression or denial rather than admit the pain of the process. Result is poor results.

Rejection, being an integral part of the job hunt, makes us go through various ego protection exercises -

Me great –find me.

Very popular with freshers with firang education and those who qualify from institutions which charge exorbitant fees. Also popular with senior level people. But waiting is a dubious job hunting strategy.

The golden shortlist of placement firms.

This minimizes the pain of rejection. Placement firms say no or, at worse, ignore you if they cannot cater to you. Small list less pain, big list more pain. So, reduce the number of nos from placement companies by keeping the list small and then continue to flog a dead horse. Then blame it for not responding properly. The blame game is quite popular.

Net the internet.

There is definitely more to fishing than dipping a net in the ocean. Job hunting on the internet is the ultimate in wishful thinking. I suspect that the popularity lies in the anonymity. If you can’t get a job there is no human to blame which is great for the ego but not too great for results.

The by- pass.

If all the above mentioned exercises fail then one concludes that all systems are big no – nos and the only recourse is to go to the companies direct. If one reaches such a stage then a coronary by-pass is a safer option. Even Safer if you kiss your career good bye.

All said and done job hunting is always about – A thousand no’s for a single yes. Let us just be brave and swallow the bitter pills.

Copyright © 2011, Jobnet magazine, issue 179

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What is the use of your qualifications without the know-how of jobhunting?

Lima Sehgal

We get education degrees on that what is supposed to get us qualified for a job. But there is no degree qualifying us for getting a job that you are qualified for.

In plain terms all this boils down to sitting in a sailboat in the ocean, and hoping for breeze.

The amazing thing about our professional educational systems with its golden promises of jobs, along with the sales pitch of 100 percent campus recruitment, and the accompanying photographs of lovely buildings, is the fact that gullibility that can be so encashable!

By osmosis, we absorb it, believe it and then wonder what makes it not work.

There is plenty of information on how to kill competition, impress interviewers, or win jobs but nothing on the techniques of using placement firms or internet platforms for finding jobs. The extent of ignorance amongst the educated is terrific when it comes to job hunting methodologies. Most of us tend to muddle through, hoping.

Learning it hard way, is not always the answer to success. Neither is the best education a ticket for the best job. Clubbing both concepts together as a working formula is a sure recipe for distress.

Copyright © 2011, Jobnet magazine, issue 184

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THE INDIAN WORK ETHOS

Lima Sehgal

The herd instinct is so deeply entrenched in us that we always look for some one to follow. Our shepherds come in various avatars- daddies, schoolteachers, yuppies, best friends, gurus, neighbours etc.

No doubt there is a practical goodness about being a follower. When things backfire we have the luxury of blaming it on someone – like our ruling political party, our parents, the lousy economy, unfair competition, the Americans … and we continue to remain untainted.

The moment our babies learn to walk and get toilet trained we don’t waste a moment in getting them into a system. The one that promises to herd us into a direction that leads to what we believe is greener pastures.

First, it is the playschool which gives an education on how to play. Then it is the schooling system that gives an education on how not to play. Main stream schooling becomes a serious business of tutorials and achievement of good scholastic marks.

The Indian scholastic system is wonderful in its ability to produce conformists who join the workforce. It may perhaps be a great asset for employers to have employees who only ‘Do’ but never think (great for bosses), but for the individual it remains questionable.

Conformity results in the problem that the Indian professional faces, which is an inability to adapt to the demands of change- And worse, an inability to face the demands of our extremely volatile job – market.

We are focused on a system of education which is supposed to lead us to getting a job. But nobody actually goes beyond a point to reassess their value in context of the job market realities.Golden promises? Much of it is excluded from reality.

Let us take a few examples.

I have come across Engineers with good work experience aspiring for a job in a foreign country, who can’t converse in English or anything apart from their local regional lingo, so how do they expect to communicate? I regularly meet fresh MBA’s who expect to get hired as managers with salaries of CEO’s. I also know quite a few senior professionals who refuse to study advanced professional courses (because it is not needed at their age), and then complain about these new fangled kids who take over.

This inability to take charge and harness change to one’s advantage is sadly lacking in the majority of Indian professionals. The ability to change course, to admit mistakes in career choices or even to simply reassess tried and tested job market related methodologies is alien for the majority.

Get a job, keep a job, save and retire, no longer rings true as reality. All those years of fuss – what did it amount to? Jobs are not for keeps, job hunting methods are changing by the minute, and our educational systems do not create much enthusiasm in the global job market. So what is the new formula that can be followed?

Can we think? After so many years of habit of compromise and conformity the quality of our thinking becomes questionable.

There seems to be a new viral in the air. Jobs are no longer about getting them. For quite a few years with the march of time our prized jobs for engineers, doctors, chartered accountants, IT professionals etc has undergone so much redefinition in the job market, that we hardly know what sense to make of the flotsam and jetsam of the wreckage. Suddenly looking back the system of reaching one’s destination or following a methodology of education looks meaningless.

Copyright © 2011, Jobnet magazine, issue 170

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