The Job Seeker's Sixth Sense of what won't work

Over the past two years, the Indian Professional has discarded many misconceptions about the job market.

For better or for worse, the perspectives are clearer.

It is a big relief to know that the grass is no greener on the other side of the fence, and the competition out there is competing just as hard.

Reality, though unsavory, is preferable. It comes as a relief to know where one stands – even if one is not standing on one’s own two feet.

The guilt of not trying enough, or not knowing where to try became the gullibility on which service organizations mushroomed. There is a very fine line between giving help and giving jobs. Jobseekers need more than a formula that works only if all the ingredients are right. Anyone knows that it needs more than that to bake a cake.

But, now, there are diminishing takers for resume mass emailing services, for registration of resumes on websites, for training programs to motivate your soul, or for the ‘How to succeed in an interview’ toolkit.

Jobseekers are now demanding authentic services for real needs. Not just a packaging and props industry.

The Indian jobseeker has developed a unique self confidence, born not from the discovery of a niche or from the acquisition of job offers, but from an understanding of what really does not work.

This sixth sense has now become an instinct.

Realizing that in the ocean, the predators are not the only competitors is sometimes the one single chance we give ourselves.

Copyright © 2013,Lima Sehgal
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