“Are you looking for a change” the question, first of the series of questions that has changed many lives of a prospective candidate leading into a new employment opportunity. The question remains the first step towards the change, the answers often leading to a new career and a life style. The question is more often heard when the market for employment is looking good. The number of times this question is heard is perhaps a good measure of the employment market looking like the number of employment opportunities are increasing.
M.S.Rajagopalan, a friend curious about the changing employment scenario in India, in one of the discussions gauges the business of recruitment currently doing well; his understanding of the improving prospects in the recruitment industry by the number of pages in “Accent” of Times of India. He reflects his understanding by a simple yardstick of employment advertisement pages increasing issue after issue every week in a daily newspaper of India. .
The question “Are you looking for a change?” keeps ringing in my mind to seek answers not just from a perspective of a candidate seeking employment but extend this question or analogy to understand the employment scenario of the country. I began with this question in mind to seek and explore the broad economic scenario, the impact of globalization on the increasing the sectors employment has an impact on. To extend this question to the sectors of IT and media that I have been closely been associated if they have been looking for a change in the ways they employ people.
The organizations that employ people need to address the same question, whether “Are you looking for a change”, the context of change here applies to the core principles of the recruitment strategy, the channels that the organizations ways in which you employ people, how the skills to be employed are defined, the process to match skills with potential candidate, kind of people they employ. The connecting links of the industries who act as mediators between employers and the prospective employees. The smaller pieces that connect the two, recruiters the people who ask this question to everyday of their work life.
Primarily, with this question to explore the external and internal environment of the talent acquisition, beginning with the origin of demand till completion of he entire cycle.
The question on the other side of it also must a changed many a lives into making a great career in recruitment.
Although the title of this blog is “Are you looking for a change”, the question is actually an attempt to seeking answers from understanding at the international level, the national level economics of employment, country itself, the software industry which forms the frame of reference, software development organizations on one side.
The growth has certainly been the Government initiative to move towards liberalized economy from the erstwhile Soviet model of command economy. The opening up of the economy has created the large service sector.
• Employment in India
o The population
o Education
o Engineering education
• Engineering talent in India
• Employment in IT Industry
• Talent Shortage
Using “Are you looking for a change” question, I want to seek and understand and share about the issues that impact employment in the IT sector.
