Let us loosen up a bit here!
Jobs continue to remain a very serious issue, bordering on the parochial. And we pass on our parochialism as an inheritance.
With the result there is a very curious phenomenon prevalent amongst freshers today – the inability to dream.
We have created straightjackets – the right marks, the right course, the right jobs, the right moves …
The journey from lecture rooms leaves one only at exit points. What about the journeys ahead?
Most of us have to make career choices without any exposure to internships, temp jobs or even obscure work exposure. There is no element of even fun in trying out some little experimentation without a label that directs it. We do not have a plan that exposes youngsters to the concept of work during schooling years.
What we are churning out as the future Indian work force are well educated people, who are excellent in following directions rather than creating them. The mood is to be manager, not manic.
But rather than just having a focus on the sunrise and sunset definitions of companies, a little stargazing would not hurt.
I have often been reminded that the Indian professional does not have the luxury of experimentation. Waggling fingers point out issues about economies, population pressures, competition, shortages and rations.
But let us shake this lethargy — we are not talking jobs here but exposure. We are used to paying companies for what should be free internships and paying educational institutions for giving us work certificates, so why not create an environment of free exposure available to youngsters?
We must not forget that blueprints are not maps for the future.
Copyright © 2013Lima Sehgal
Republication or dissemination of the contents of this article are expressly prohibited without the written consent of the publishers of Jobnet magazine and the Author
Jobs continue to remain a very serious issue, bordering on the parochial. And we pass on our parochialism as an inheritance.
With the result there is a very curious phenomenon prevalent amongst freshers today – the inability to dream.
We have created straightjackets – the right marks, the right course, the right jobs, the right moves …
The journey from lecture rooms leaves one only at exit points. What about the journeys ahead?
Most of us have to make career choices without any exposure to internships, temp jobs or even obscure work exposure. There is no element of even fun in trying out some little experimentation without a label that directs it. We do not have a plan that exposes youngsters to the concept of work during schooling years.
What we are churning out as the future Indian work force are well educated people, who are excellent in following directions rather than creating them. The mood is to be manager, not manic.
But rather than just having a focus on the sunrise and sunset definitions of companies, a little stargazing would not hurt.
I have often been reminded that the Indian professional does not have the luxury of experimentation. Waggling fingers point out issues about economies, population pressures, competition, shortages and rations.
But let us shake this lethargy — we are not talking jobs here but exposure. We are used to paying companies for what should be free internships and paying educational institutions for giving us work certificates, so why not create an environment of free exposure available to youngsters?
We must not forget that blueprints are not maps for the future.
Copyright © 2013Lima Sehgal
Republication or dissemination of the contents of this article are expressly prohibited without the written consent of the publishers of Jobnet magazine and the Author
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