The Vicious
Circle of Job
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It was 4th
June, 2007, the day when our graduation results were getting out. At 1400
hours, I had received the mark sheet. I looked at it. It turned out to be the
best day of my life. I was happy coz I have completed one step in my life by
becoming graduate. I was the one holding a degree of B.Sc. (Comp. Sc.)!
Celebration
continued for first two days after results were out. Now it was time to look
forward for job! I had searched for best resume formats for a programmer over
the internet. As it was my first time to prepare a resume, it took me around a
day to finish the task. After that, I started visiting several job portals such
as naukri.com, monster.com, timesjobs.com etc. I was looking for any job
opening for fresher and at Mumbai. By looking at the results, I became happy as
there were many job openings suitable for me. Next step was to create a free
login account on these job portals and upload the resume. I did it and applied
for several openings. I was hoping for getting a call from any of those
organizations. And the day ended well with resume prepared, new logins on job
portals and applications for several job openings.
Next day, my
parents and relatives asked me the status. I explained whole process which I
followed the earlier day. They felt good and wished me luck. The days were
passing. Celebration mood of having a graduate son at home was getting over.
The graduate son was turning into a jobless son. It was about to happen.
Everyone started asking what is the status? It was two months from results and
I was still jobless. I was feeling ashamed while answering everyone. In the
meantime, I had attended ten interviews and seven of them kept me on hold and
others rejected. I started forgetting everything I studied and practiced. My
knowledge was becoming useless. During last year of my graduation, we have
asked our seniors a question as “In how much duration do you get a job after
graduation?” And they replied as, “In maximum three months.” With this answer,
I was hoping to get a job in a month. But being fresher, it was not easy to get
a job just like you wanted!
Day by day,
being jobless, I was getting frustrated. One of my friends had suggested global
certifications of Microsoft Corporation for getting good job with high salary
package. Hence, I did it. Now I was fresher in job market holding Graduation
degree along with Global Certification from Microsoft. I had applied on several
postings, attended interviews but still no luck. Why did this happen? Why I
didn’t get job till around a year? Why did I find most of the openings only for
experience persons? Why they wanted experienced people only and not fresher? If
there won’t be job, then there won’t be experience at all. And if no
experience, then there will be no job. How can we break this vicious circle of
job?
So many
questions and there will be many answers. First of all, there are many job
openings present in IT market for programmer but not in Mumbai. Those are
present in other cities of India such as Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore
etc. So I should have been open to relocate. What next? Next comes is the level
of knowledge which organizations are expecting from their candidates. And this
level of knowledge will not be there with fresher. Hence they prefer
experienced ones. If institutes or education at degree level will give much
knowledge with practical and projects, then it will be easier for fresher to
get a job. Many of those institutes have their trainers who were studying from
same institute and have no experience from the industry. Same case with
colleges too. Hence, trainers must be having some sort of industrial experience
to help them with proper knowledge. Job location, less experienced trainers we
have seen yet. What next?
Organizations
those which are having openings for fresher, they do ask global certifications from
vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle etc. Sometimes, if candidate does not hold a
global certification, but has knowledge still he/she will be rejected by HR
team before giving them chance for the interview. That must be considered and
fresher should have given chance without global certification too, even though
there is some HR policy. Organizations also schedule walk-in interviews for
fresher. Advertising of those interviews should be done properly. Organizations
shall use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc.
These walk-in drives must be known to employees of same organizations so that
they can also refer to needy. Until and unless fresher will come to know about
those openings, the one won’t be able to apply. Next comes is the resume
format. Your resume must display best of yours. Your resume must impress
organizations. Prepare the best resume before applying for a job. One can take
help of experienced individuals and internet to prepare it.
Last but not
the least is the salary expectations. If a fresher keeps high salary
expectations then he/she won’t be able to get job easily. Getting something is
better than having nothing. One must be ready to get lesser salary package. At
least he/she will be getting a job and experience too.
If no
experience then no job, and if no job then no experience, this vicious circle
can be broken by considering the points which I have mentioned. There may be more
options present to break it. Can anybody suggest more points?
Sunit S.
Pendse
16th
April 2014
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