A Management professional with over 20 years of experience in the Indian Financial Services industry. Prior to TalentSprint, he held leadership positions in corporates like KARVY Group and KM Matrimony.

�Opportunities don�t happen, you create them�- Chris Grosser. The world is your oyster and you have the freedom and the ability to do anything or go anywhere. The course you take for your life will define you and make or break your future. And it�s appealing to follow the crowd when we have just begun to join the race. Young and vulnerable minds constantly look out for the much-needed guidance, direction and acceptance, which is extremely easy to obtain while following the crowd. As it is said, the loudest voice is the roar of the crowd. By aping their success stories, the debutantes often believe that success will be theirs in no time. After all, majority wins!

But that�s just the appetizer for the journey. What follows is an eclectic mix in the main course that totally differs from one individual to another, turning into an acquired taste. Enter the harsh world of competition and the picture gets clearer. Being a part of the rat race doesn�t function well in the big bad world of competition, in higher studies or while looking for the maiden job, where every individual is competing for the same position. And, with sectors like Information Technology (IT), where change is the only constant when it comes to skill sets, an unclear mind without a clear understanding of the goals can cause chaos. The results can often be disastrous as a majority ends up being at the losing end while seeking their first job as the numbers tells us how:

90 percent of the graduates are not found to be employable due to lack of technical and soft skills

Every company selects 1-5 people out of every 100 who apply there

Banks and other competitive exams has the ratio of 200 applicants for each job

There will be a billion plus jobseekers to compete with by 2050