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February
20, 2009 |
BANGALORE: Earlier this week, a recruiter in Bangalore received a CV from a technology professional with this request: "I want to report to a job within a fortnight. It doesn’t matter where the posting is, it could even be somewhere in Africa. I’m losing my job and I have EMIs to honour."
Just a year ago, this same candidate was hesitant to relocate his workplace from Koramangala to ITPL saying it was too far for him, says V G Nirupama, MD of staffing firm AdAstra. "Today, candidates have shed location clauses from their resumes and many are even willing to be posted in tough geographies like Africa, Saudi Arabia and Turkey," she says.
Job-seekers across the board used to be extremely location, role and remuneration specific. Today, all they seek is a job. Many professionals are also willing to explore less-familiar or totally new verticals just to get a job.
After he was fired as VP operations of a tier-II IT firm, Vivek Karan (name changed) is now teaching at one of the management institutes in the city. A BSc computer science graduate from Mysore who was fired just 13 months into a job as software engineer has taken to driving a Meru Taxi.
"A lot of levelling has taken place in the minds of job-seekers, in terms of expectations, desire levels and aspirations. It’s a lot more easy to handle them these days as they are not pre-set or prejudiced," says Mamta Jain, a Mumbai-based HR adviser.
Manish Sabharwal, MD of staffing company TeamLease says, "power has clearly shifted from employees to employers.” There is an acute job drought. "There’s no room for choices or preferences anymore. You are lucky if you get anything, anywhere," he says.
Many are reworking their CVs to make them multi-vertical friendly. "Straight fit is hardly found and candidates are increasingly settling for alternative fits. You will see many techies taking up jobs in un-related sectors, at least for a couple of years, before they get back to the mainstream," says B Murthy, CEO, HumanCapital.
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