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Are you in a miserable job? Your escapade plan is here

Are you in a miserable job? Your escapade plan is here

Take-a-break

Do you feel like being stuck in a golden cage or just a cage? Many of us are working only to earn the livelihood, in their high-paying jobs, such employees are stuck in the golden-cage while others dissatisfied with their salary are stuck in the cage. You knowingly or unknowingly might be trapped in the cage, working for the salary day and looking forward to holidays.

We insist you to read Jim’s story here…

Jim a qualified post-graduate with over five years of experience was working in a financial firm as Relationship Manager. High incentives, commissions, luxurious official trips and parties were part of his routine.

Boss’ not-so-favourite Jim woke-up with same thought every morning “How many days to weekend/ holiday?” Commute to the office, listening to favourite music made him feel better. Jim managed his responsibilities well but was day-dreaming most of the time. He felt lost, disconnected and dissatisfied; his strengths remained unutilized. Audacious Jim went upto his Manager to discuss the issues and in a bid to bring a solution, however, it was an unsuccessful attempt.

Jim’s brief story that made us recall our start-to-end of the day and made us realized who is in the cage and who is working passionately. If you relate yourself to Jim, read on to find out what Jim did next –

Step 1 – Source of unhappiness

Jim tried to determine what was making him unhappy, his boss, work-place/ environment or his career path overall. If it was the three first options, switching company is the solution and thus, get-set-go for updating your Resume, uploading and applying to the best opportunities. Start with LinkedIn, make contacts, and create a network and so on.

However, Jim’s fuss was his career path. In that case, usual job search will do-no-good to him.

Step 2 – Savings = Live-Saver

Jim’s apathy was mounting, so was his quest to get rid the incumbent job as well as career. However, being used to a pricey lifestyle, Jim decided to trim his expenses by more than 50%. He decided to move to a cheaper apartment, less or no shopping and due focus on “What’s Next?”

Alike Jim, if you are thinking of switching your career path, first take a look at your bank balance and liabilities/ responsibilities. It is said that, when you leave existing work profile without a new job in hand, keep minimum four-month salary in your savings account.

This important tip will help you survive during “no-job-search” period.

Step 3 – What’s Next?

Having realized his source of unhappiness, Jim started taking time-off in evenings or weekends to determine his “what’s next?” This wasn’t an easy task; after all, he was making a tricky and risky decision. Jim, therefore, decided to make this quest more comprehensive and scientific. He began with writing down his passion, researching on that or even newer career options in the similar arena, and took few personality tests. Jim found his passion in travelling; his next task was to ensure sufficient/ satisfactory salary. Switching career from A to B, without any experience, makes you a fresher. Jim knew he will have to start from zero with minimal or no salary.

Step 4 – Build-up your courage

Do you have the courage to escape that golden-cage? Even Jim had great difficulty in calling it “quit” As the usual process, Jim’s boss and the Human Resource Manager tried to examine the situation and offered him the so-called “carrot” i.e., higher package/ incentives and so on. Anyone like Jim will be baffled, whether to follow passion or continue with the same firm with more-than-even lucrative package

A question popped in confused Jim’s mind “What if I die tomorrow?” On my death bed, do I have any memories, happiness, the satisfaction of living a love/fun-filled life?

The answer was negative.

Thus, Jim turned-down the offers and decided to walk away.

Step 5 – new Life new Goals

Jim, after serving his notice period, was a free-man with dreams of travelling the world, exploring the life on the other side of the planet. He started with small goals in his bigger picture. The first goal was to find a job that will fulfill his passion whilst earning him some amount.

Five years from that day, Jim is now successfully leading his own travelling and tourism company. He has traveled many places, yet his to-do and visit list is lengthy.

If you feel Jim, take the hint, dream big but set small goals, follow the steps and remember –

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the centre of your life.” Ray Bradbury

Author:

Renuka Dabhade

6 REASONS WHY FRESHERS ARE STRUGGLING TO GET A JOB IN INDIA

6 REASONS WHY FRESHERS ARE STRUGGLING TO GET A JOB IN INDIA

Fresher Career services

“Youths are the pillars of Nation”, we have often heard the top leaders, politicians and successful entrepreneurs mention the line in their speeches. But they never demonstrate enthusiasm on using the young manpower for the improvement of the country. They generally discuss, however never take any initiative. Each Fresher is having intense time finding a vocation they truly need. Larger part of organisations are enlisting applicants on the premise of references as opposed to the ability and potential. The meriting competitors, just appear to have their own relatives to be with them. Money muscle tussle is constantly common, at whatever point we see work opening, there’s dependably a prerequisite segment which says “Experience… least of 3 years.’

Why don’t they comprehend that today’s Experienced Personnel too were once been the Freshers. The fresh pass outs ought to get chance initially, and afterward just they will get involvement. Situation is that new graduates need to sit tight for a long period of time to land a decent position or else the fresh graduate must be exceptionally brilliant.  But what about the average? Here is a look about why exactly they are struggling to land in their dream jobs.

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  1. NOT STAYING UP TO DATE

Gone are the days when just completing any graduation was more than enough to get on with your career. On an average the number reach up to lakhs when we count the number of fresh graduate, out of which nearly 40 % of the Indians remain unemployed even after the one year of their graduation. Since Technology or market is changing each month and each quarter so there is no preparation framework in preparing anybody in these new advancements. For whatever length of time the new graduates don’t read books to learn new advancements and innovations that are not educated in educational programs, they may not get an opportunity to join an organization.

  1. LACK OF REFERENCES

Shocking but true, the pattern of landing positions utilizing references is still a preferred method of getting a decent job. There have been a few cases wherein normal average students have occupations in top organizations since they have father or uncle working there as boss or supervisor; whereas bright students are still jobless on the grounds that they don’t have a strong reference or enough money to give as bribe. Either ways, an uncalled for and out of line condition is being made which is in the end making the current circumstance grimmer.

  1. UNWILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISK

Light bulbs were not invented by improving candles, it was done because long back in 1800, Edison believed in his work and took calculated risk.  While a company has to prioritize maintaining its systems and enhancing its products, this is not true innovation. Not only light bulb, if we look around more than we see so many such inspiring personalities who believed and took the step towards their dream. Most of the new graduate are like hoards of sheep, with a little zeal to try out new ventures, explore their potential or take risk.

  1. POOR INDUSTRY TRAINING AND INTERNSHIP

When any organization makes a preparation framework in any new innovation, the innovation may either advanced to another one or totally obsolete. So there are tons and huge amounts of occupations accessible with the IT Industry and the Fresh Graduates ought to produce an enthusiasm for the product innovations and learn them all alone and go to the meeting. The best thing to land a position for a crisp graduate is to pick a couple books on an innovation and ace an innovation as far as ideas and in addition composing a couple of hundred projects around there. At that point organizations will be frantic to take them.

  1. FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY TO TAKE CONCRETE STEPS

Governmental authorities ought to find ways to settle the issue of unemployment for the new graduates. The opportunity has already come and gone the administration stand firm to help the newly graduated experts for getting set in better than average organizations. Government needs to intercede and help these experts with a better than average break.

  1. LACK OF PROPER RESUME

The competition in the corporate world if hands on, so there is no point in clinging to the old resume formats used by your seniors or elder siblings. The industry is fast changing, the sooner one realises this the better it is. Job hunting is a tough game especially when you are entering the zone for the first time. One dubious advantage most of the experienced professional gets is, they hire professionals who helps them to keep their resumes polished and know how to tailor cover letters in the blink of an eye.

Having said that, it’s not all true that Freshers have not been hired at all. New graduates are taken as learner in the vast majority of the huge private organisations, and some are additionally doing well. Be that as it may, in the event that you discuss the developing organizations, they may not bear the cost of the advantage of taking fresh pass outs as they need to prepare them and sit tight for them to convey the outcomes. Despite what might be expected, less preparing is required for the experienced candidate than Freshers which mean sparing of time and assets for the organization. Furthermore, experienced applicants know the environment and conduct of the organization.

Dominant part of HR Consultancies consider that accomplished competitors are better. Or, then again perhaps not but rather it is anything but difficult to take choice for any organization to choose experienced competitor than Freshers. Any HR Consultancy doesn’t welcome the Fresher’s CV since they too are working for procuring and for satisfying the necessities of the organization. So the solution is very clear and simple, while still at college one can enhance their skills by clearing certification, gaining internship experience, adding new skills and staying up to date with latest trends and techniques.

Post Author:

Amrita Kolay

H1B Reform Is A Threat To Indian IT Industry

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H1B Reform Is A Threat To Indian IT Industry

All through mankind’s history poverty and conflict have been our perpetual twin curses. Poverty has constantly incurred significant injury in one a player on the planet or another. Peace and war have constantly gone as an inseparable unit. They have been consistent colleagues, never to be isolated. It has been as though one won’t perceive and acknowledge riches without neediness and peace without war. Being an antiquated civilization India has seen and survived it all. Some of the time it is the charm of faraway grounds, however regularly it is destitution and shortage, total or relative, that makes Indians, much the same as other people, scan for greener fields.

A good part of the IT industry’s profitability in the US depends on the fundamentally bring down wages paid to the H1B holders that it imports from India and different nations; it depends on this prepared pool of cheap labour of India’s ideal and brightest carried into the USA on board the H1Bs–until they get their green cards and proceed onward; then the IT organizations apply for more H1B holders from India to refill the every year abandoned positions–as individuals move from “slave” labour to the open work advertise.

As of late there has been a considerable measure of hullabaloo–a constant flow of Indian IT firms communicating worries about what may be in store for the H1B visas in the unreasonably protectionist Trump Administration. The IT firms and H1B competitors are encouraging the administration to campaign the US for their sake. The legislature says it is on top of the issue and it has been in contact with the most astounding conceivable US authorities in such manner.

The foreign work visas were initially settled to help US organizations recruit from abroad when they couldn’t discover qualified nearby labourers. In any case, lately, there have been charges the projects have been mishandled to get less expensive labourers from abroad to fill employments that generally may go to Americans. The top beneficiaries of the H1B visas are outsourcers, fundamentally from India, who run the innovation divisions of substantial companies with to a great extent imported staff.

After US President’s migration shock to organizations, H1B is typically the following change which has effectively raised higher worries from Indian I.T firms. India’s one of the greatest outsourcing industry, Information Technology represents around 9.5% of the nation’s GDP and utilizes almost 3.7 million experts who could confront these #5 real dangers. The lowest pay permitted by law confine which was settled at USD 60,000 in 1989 is to be updated in Trump’s administration, which is going to enormously affect Indian IT firms in their income bases.

Indian IT organizations may confront danger of higher operational expenses as far as extending operations in other outside nations. With increment in the lowest pay permitted by law constrain in H1B visas, IT organizations may manage deficiency of talented specialists in different branches over the world. Once the administrative changes have been made in High Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act 2017, the ability deficiency may hit US-based IT organizations.

When leadership in a country (or a business so far as that is concerned) rolls out improvements in principles, strategies and capabilities, there are constantly unintended outcomes. The reason is that it is difficult to know early how far reaching changes will play out, and what the impact might be long haul. This hierarchical rule will be at the focal point of work visas and movement in the US throughout the following couple of years, as the approaching Trump administration has made it no secret that they intend to reform the H1B visa program and other migration laws. Amusingly, one of those unintended outcomes could be an expansion in the quantity of lasting permanent resident workers (green card holders) who are as of now working under H1B visas. 

What The Leaders Said:

Among 2400 IT organizations enveloped by Nasscom, a portion of the central IT organizations like Microsoft and Infosys have talked against the Bill proposition. Microsoft needs exemption to Trump’s request for workers with H1B visas, as per Fox Business Media. Infosys organizer, ‘Narayan Murthy’ has stated, “Indians ought to quit sending individuals on H1B visas and concentrate on local hiring in the US” to Indian media. Clarifying how the circumstance can be overseen he additionally included that they (Indian programming organizations) must select American occupants in the US, Canadians in Canada, British individuals in Britain and so forth. That is the main way, we can turn into a genuine multi-national organization and with a specific end goal to do that, we ought to quit utilizing H1-B visas and sending a substantial number of Indians to those nations to convey administrations,”

The Risk Involved:

Indian IT organizations may get influenced with less competitiveness in the market in contrast with other foreign based IT firms. The set rate of profitability of every representative has a tendency to get hampered with a planned patch up of groups particularly in the IT segment. A plunge in IT development in industry will prompt to a slump in speculations for which Indian IT division may not be prepared post Indian government’s demonetization drive a year ago. With the lack of expertise labourers, IT organizations may confront moderate development, which will at last effect their income era.

The proposed Trump request is additionally gone for conveying more straightforwardness to the program. It calls for distributing reports with fundamental insights on who utilizes the movement programs inside one month of the finish of the administration’s monetary year. The Obama Administration had downsized the data accessible on the projects and required Freedom of Information Act asks for a few information.

Author

Amrita Kolay