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Job losing: Indians are now ready to work even in Africa
By siliconindia
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Friday, 20 February 2009, 17:53 IST |
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Bangalore: Just some months ago, the highly paid employees in sectors like IT were portrayed rather as arrogant in their demands than skillful in their work. They were not ready to compromise on their pay package, location and other bonuses. But the picture has just fallen upside down.
According to a report in The Times of India, earlier this week, a recruiter in Bangalore received a CV from a technology professional with this request: "I want to report to a job within a fortnight. It doesn't matter where the posting is, it could even be somewhere in Africa. I'm losing my job and I have EMIs to honor."
Just a year ago, this candidate was reluctant to relocate his workplace from Koramangala to ITPL, saying it was too far for him. "Today, candidates have shed location clauses from their resumes and many are even willing to be posted in tough geographies like Africa, Saudi Arabia and Turkey," says V G Nirupama, MD of staffing firm AdAstra. Many jobseekers are reworking on their CVs to make them multi-vertical friendly.
Many professionals are even willing to explore less-familiar or totally new verticals. Vivek Karan (name changed) was working as VP operations of a tier-II IT firm. But now, after being fired from that job, he is teaching at one of the management institutes in the city.
Even more pathetic is the predicament of a BSc computer science graduate from Mysore who was fired just 13 months into a job as software engineer and has now taken to driving a Meru Taxi.
Mamta Jain, a Mumbai-based HR adviser, says, "A lot of levelling has taken place in the minds of job-seekers, in terms of expectations, desire levels and aspirations. It's a lot more easy to handle them these days as they are not pre-set or prejudiced."
Manish Sabharwal, MD of staffing company TeamLease says, "Power has clearly shifted from employees to employers. There is an acute job drought. There's no room for choices or preferences anymore. You are lucky if you get anything, anywhere," he says.