Today the story is about how sometimes the “qualified” fall under “unemployed” few (hundred thousands) category and why you eventually end up with something that you never dreamt of doing. And the dozen of other free plug-ins you get FREE of charge with the supper offer called “job”.
Irrespective of the industry, may it be finance, manufacturing, hospitality to FMCG, probably the most frustrating part is “hiring”. But WHY is hiring so tough when half a million are job seekers?
Well it’s a simple miss(& Mr)understanding of the REAL thing and the perception about the IceBurg (for the blonds out there, its called an iceburg because 9/10 of the problem is under water, for super blonds , that means you see only 1/10th of the issue) known as “JOB ”.
Freshers come to the job market with the professional and academic qualifications aiming at thir dream job. It’s of course a good thing that you posses a sound educational background (unless the company is run by your uncle’s best friend’s ex husband’s sister’s late aunty’s grandson)
But the truth is that you need to handle a little more than whats written on your JD (job description). For those who don’t know what a JD is, that’s a word document that you only look at when putting up a job advert, after that you never take it out, and nobody is supposed to know where its kept and usually you find it not been updated and untouched for few years and in most cases the job holder is doing exactly the opposite of whats written on it.
Job comes in as a package with plugins such as boss (who expects you to read his/her mind most of the time), subordinates (in most cases threatened by you, uppish , lousy or weirdos),, company culture (that should ideally run satisfaction surveys weekly) company brand acceptance in the local society you live in (that means the CNN neighbor & your BBC relatives should recognize the company name at once without you having to give them a 30 minutes presentation)
So its about handling all these in addition to you little role that you have to play. Sometimes you might realize that it’s not really the job that you have to manage but a good 50% to 60% other “plugins”
And the trick is that you might stand a chance if you blow your trumpet big enough to make the recruiters realize that you actually can handle the role in addition to the plugins. (Or the plugins in addition to the role)
Morale of the story, its easy for everybody to bitch about what they go through. But if you do a bit of research you’d realize that everywhere is more or less the same unless you stand by you values “full of spine” armed with communication & interpersonal skills (one of those few things that you wont find at Arpico Super Centres) to balance stuff around. And never ever underestimate the value of small chats with the “successful players” who manages the product (job) as well as the plugins (dozen of free give aways)
Cheers
PramoD
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