I have been posting, though intermittently on Education and employment opportunities.
Might be that I am moving only in such circles, I find that people get employed without hassles when compared to my days.
We used to hunt for jobs furiously,looking at newspapers for vacancies,asking people to put in a word for an interview.
We were not sure as to what kind of job we were seeking .
Anything would do.
Getting an interview card was the first highest point.
Getting through it , well, that’s another matter.
Then we had this task of preparing the Application.
Never had of such terms as Bio Data or CV.
Freshers world Logo.
The format would be simple containing basic information, with no hyperbole about one’s capacity or statement to the effect,
‘my short term goal is….. and would help the organisation to realize its vision..’ etc.
And there used to be a debate whether the application should be handwritten or typed!
Now things have changed for the better, at least in terms of job availability.
But ona reality check I have found that excepting the IT and Call Center segments, the job hunting fever remains high.
I find people with good qualification and better skills remaining unemployed and over a period of time get settled in a job where they are over qualified.
On checking up with HR ,senior people,I found that it is the same problem as it was in my days, finding the right candidate!
Job seeker and the employer do not connect.
There are now various job portals like Naukri,Timesjobs and many more.
To me they seemed to me more business oriented for the site owners!
I have come across a site where the information seems to be very useful and the site seems to address the needs of the candidates.
It has placement papers, tips for getting a job, jobs classified as Government, non Government, Technical, industry, qualification specific.
And Company specific.
The focus is more on Jobs in India.
To help the candidates who want to update their qualification and skills, there are references to Courses, institutes.
Infosys, the Indian IT company was sued in the US for practicing discrimination against the US citizens by employing South Asians disproportionately in the US.
Infosys ,Bangalore.
This is bound to affect outsourcing as there are checks for outsourcing against Indian Companies in the US and there is federal Bill pending.
Whether the US likes it or not, Indian IT companies perform better and the South Asians, especially from Andhra Pradesh are doing well,
I am informed by my Grand son in Sweden that in Sweden Telugu speaking IT people are quite high.
In Business it is quality and economics that counts, not Nationality.
Otherwise the Out Sourcing Phenomena would not have happened.
Story:
A WisconsinIT professional has filed a lawsuit against Indian outsourcing firm Infosys alleging that the company discriminates against U.S. job applicants in favor of South Asians for jobs in the U.S.
Brenda Koehler, an IT worker with 17 years of experience, alleges that Infosys ignored her qualifications and eventually hired a Bangladeshi worker to staff a position she was qualified for. Koehler and her lawyers are asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to allow a class-action lawsuit against Infosys, with “thousands” of potential plaintiffs in the case, according to the lawsuit, filed Thursday.
“Infosys has engaged in a systemic pattern and practice of discriminating against individuals who are not of South Asian descent in hiring,” Koehler’s lawyers wrote in court documents.
A representative of Infosys said the company categorically denies the allegations. “We’re an equal-opportunity employer,” she said.
Koehler, a VMware-certified professional network engineer with a master’s degree in information systems, was denied a lead VMware/Windows administrator position at Infosys, the lawsuit alleges.
“Ms. Koehler’s experience is not unique,” Donna Conroy, director of Bright Future Jobs, a group advocating for U.S. tech workers, said in an email. “High-tech companies claim they can’t find Americans to fill U.S jobs, when, in fact, they are rejecting talented Americans — as this lawsuit reveals.”
The lawsuit, citing comments from former Infosys employees, alleges that more than 90 percent of the company’s 15,000 U.S. employees are foreign workers, with most of them from South Asia. The company is using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers “to performA jobs for which there are qualified American workers available,” the lawsuit said.
But on a Global scale India ranks at the lowest in The Wold.
Divorce Statistics.
Statistics shows that only 1 out of 100 Indian marriages end up to a divorce which is quite low in comparison to America’s 50% of marriages turning into breakups.
The divorce rate in Indian villages is even lower in comparison to urban India.
The following figures will help you to get an idea about the divorce rate in India with respect to global divorce rate.
The rate of divorce in India was even low in the previous decade, where only 7.40 marriages out of 1,000 marriages were annulled.
However,Divorce rates in India are increasing.
“The past one year has witnessed 43,000 divorces across the country. However, owing to the awareness relating to men’s rights nationwide, the number of divorce by mutual consent has also gone up. Today, statistics shows 60 per cent of the divorces is by mutual consent.
Among states with the highest number of divorces, Maharashtra topped the list in the past year, accounting for nearly 20,000 cases, with Mumbai and Pune alone accounting for 15,000 of them, while the remaining were reported from Nashik, Aurangabad and Nagpur
Divorce statistics indicate that in the last couple of decades, the number of married persons in the U.S. has significantly dropped down. The percentage of married people in U.S. was lower than 60% in 2002 compared to 72% in 1970. The reason for the failure for 80% of the marriages is “irreconcilable differences” among couples. The chances of the first marriage ending in a divorce vary. According to the divorce statistics, 20% of first marriages fail after 5 years, 33% after 10 years whereas 43% end in divorce after 15 years.
Divorce rates in The IT sector are higher as compared to other sectors.
Lawyers say that lifestyle change is one of the primary reasons for marriages ending in divorce.
Around five years ago, the ratio was one divorce per 1,000 marriages in India , and today statistics indicate that there are 13 divorces for every 1,000 marriage.
The main reasons attributed to the break-up of marriages in India today are related to equal income between sexes and the high stress levels.
The maximum number of divorces is among call centre employees, medical professionals and those in the technology sector.
I had already discussed the work pressure/Culture in The IT industry contributing to Stress, strained relationships and Divorce
Now the process has been hastened by the introduction of IT.
Till the advent of IT, though the joint Family system was breaking up, the custom of the sons staying with his parents was continued.
But after both the husband and wife have started earning from IT and Call Centers this practice changed.
Now the habit of the wife’s parents staying in the daughter’s Home is increasing while the parents of the Boy live separately
A case in which a Husband murdered his wife for constantly harassing him to live separately, in Bangalore last year!
Though the Husbands declare they are ‘fast’ in Lifestyle, they are unable to come to terms with their spouses mixing freely with the other Sex in their Profession, though they may deny it.
I have cases reported to me by the Husbands themselves!
The value changes are difficult to adjust and it takes time.
This is a high pressure point.
Recognition and promotions in the IT Industry is related to performance(It is more pronounced in the IT sector).
The Indian Male Psyche is not ready to absorb or adjust with it.
In fact this is a global phenomenon, though it is illogical.
Another issue is balancing Home and Work, especially for women.
The issue becomes complex with the arrival of a Baby.
How does one handle these issues?
“The pressures of the modern workplace has made a bigger difference in the lifestyle of techies.
India still has one of the lowest divorce rates in the world, with about one in 1,000 marriages collapsing, according to recent studies.
But the courts are now seeing so many new cases that the government has proposed making divorce easier and faster, in line with other countries.
“There has been a huge change, a drastic change and divorce rates are increasing,” Dr Geetanjali Sharma, a marriage counsellor working in Gurgaon, a wealthy Delhi satellite city, told the BBC.
“There’s been a 100 percent increase in divorce rates in the past five years alone.They don’t want to put more efforts into a relationship to fix the issues.”
Most of those splitting up are members of India’s thriving, urban middle class whose lives have been transformed by India’s boom, and whose aspirations are radically different to those of their parents and grandparents….
The pressures of the modern workplace make a bigger difference, she thinks, than whether it was a traditional arranged marriage, or a so-called “love marriage”.
The divorce rates in Kerala are going up. In 2009-10, the number of divorce cases numbered 11,600, with the majority being from the IT industry.
“The situation is disturbing,” says Rajiv Menon (name changed), a senior legal practitioner, who works at the Family Court, Kochi. “Most couples who work in the IT industry break up within two to three years of marriage.” Rajiv puts it down to the odd working hours, usually at night, the high stress of the job, and an egoistic attitude.
“The spouses adopt an attitude of superiority to each other,” he says. “There is also a lack of communication which causes many misunderstandings.”
Meanwhile, Antony gives other reasons.
“When they first join the industry, youngsters get swayed by the high incomes,” says Antony. “Many of them take to drinks, drugs, late night parties and watching porn on the internet.” Inevitably, the youngsters lose their equilibrium. “There is a widespread prevalence of pre-marital sex,” says Antony. “They have been influenced by the serials on TV which glorify pre- and extra-marital sex in order to garner good ratings.”
IT professionals in troubled marriages are hacking into their spouse’s email account for proof of extramarital affair or salary, say lawyers and cyber experts.
Cyber experts say a growing number of cases have come to light where couples are hacking into each other’s email accounts to collect evidence for divorce. And some are going a step further by fabricating electronic evidence for early separation reports NDTV
Lawyers also claim that couples on the verge of separation are increasingly resorting to hacking techniques to score on each other.
“No good lawyer would advise the litigants to hack into each other’s accounts, but we are coming across many litigants who come to us already in possession of sheets of conversation wherein it becomes clear that the other person is having a relationship outside of marriage that goes beyond mere friendship,” said Advocate Ajit Kulkarni.
According to lawyers in the city, 30 percent of all divorces that happen in the city every year are among couples working in the IT sector, and 50 percent of them use hacking techniques to collect electronic evidence against each other.”
That unusual drop is the fastest in nearly three decades and was not expected even in the most optimistic circles.
‘The U.S. government reported that the world’s largest economy generated 114,000 jobs in September, roughly in line with markets’ subdued expectations. However, upward revisions to previous months’ figures and a fall in the unemployment rate — from to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent — reassured investors, who marked stocks higher.”
“One reason for the rise was an upward revision of 86,000 to the July and August jobs numbers–all of which came from a 91,000 increase in the estimate of public sector jobs. Private sector job estimates were actually revised downward by 5,000.
In addition, the BLS reported a large rise in the number of part-time jobs, adding 600,000 jobs to the total–a dramatic increase of 7.5%, not explained by any other economic indicators–and raising questions about whether the government had changed the way it counted part-time workers.”
CNBC: We’re getting bombarded by people who do not believe the number. They believe this number was fixed and typed to coincide with Election Day. What do you say to them?…I’ll rephrase the question. A lot of people do not believe the 7.8 number. They believe that somehow BLS fixed this to coincide with the election cycle. What is labor’s response?
Solis: You know, I’m insulted when I hear that because we have a very professional, civil service organization where you have top, top economists that work at the BLS. They’ve been doing these calculations. These are — these are our best trained and best-skilled individuals working in the BLS, and it’s really ludicrous to hear that kind of statement, and I say that because just look at the — we have to look at what happens across the board, not just in one month, but look what happened in the last two months. We also saw revisions there upwards of 86,000 additional jobs added and this brings us now to 5.2 million private sector jobs across the board, we saw 104 private sector jobs created….
CNBC: Before I let you go, you say skepticism over the numbers are ludicrous. You say you’re insulted. Is there a danger, you believe, when large sections was country don’t believe the data. Not that it’s ever been considered gospel, but when you have disbelief how much danger is embedded in that?
Solis: I will tell you that we look at each report differently. We just saw revisions for the last two months and this happens. I mean, these are estimates that obviously, the BLS puts out. They do the best calculation, using the best measurements and tools and we’ve been using them for the past 70 years. We haven’t changed anything and the information that I received is given to me by our professional, civil service staff in the BLS.
Note that Solis describes the 86,000 upward revision as if it were an increase in private sector jobs, though in fact the increase came entirely from revisions to public sector payrolls by cash-strapped federal and state governments. Instead of shedding jobs, as previously claimed, governments have been adding jobs.”
All Governments chest in Figures at the approach of Elections.
To lie so blatantly and get caught!
May be these people should have followed Richard Nixon in the Art of Lying!
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