Job Scenario In Developing Countries
The current job scenario in most developing countries is quite frustrating. First of all, these countries do not have many government jobs. Their governments look towards privatising almost every single Public Sector Undertaking(PSU). On the other hand, in the private sector, there is no job security.
A Government job means a person wakes up at 6:00 am, eats breakfast at 8:00 am and reaches office by 9:00 am. By 11:00 am, he has tea with a cookie. He eats his lunch by 1:00 pm and gets back to work by 1:30 pm. He has another tea or coffee by 4:00 pm and exits from office by 5:30 pm. Along with this, he has the freedom to attend personal calls and send or receive messages as and when he wants.
No one resigns from a Government job.
Not so with the job in the private sector.
To begin with, âCampus Selectionâ is a way to start sucking your blood before you even graduate. They would keep you as a trainee to get their job done and throw you out before your training period is over, because you are âincompetentâ. They would get their job done by again recruiting students, as âtraineesâ.
Private sector jobs require the person to be hooked to work during the duty hours. Except for the one hour he gets as break, he cannot do anything personal in the working hours. Maximum productivity is squeezed from the individual. In most cases, the person gets so tired from work that he reaches home gasping for bed.
A man gets hired at an early age in the private sector only to be thrown out at the age of forty years. They are told that they are incompetent as they cannot work or run and jump(in operational jobs) the way they used to do when they were in their early twenties. By the time a person is forty years, he is generally married with two children. They are forced to resign from their jobs, by then. If they are not asked to leave, they are given a chance for transfer to distant city, where it is hard for a married man to survive(for growth!). The person has no choice but to resign. Therefore, unemployment at a later stage in life is a growing concern in these countries.
In general, single, unmarried individuals have more chances of getting hired.
In most cases, no one works for more than three years in the same private enterprise. After he resigns, he needs rest for a minimum period of two months to regain the energy to get in a new job since he is exhausted by the hard work he put in his previous job.
On the top of all this, there is a rampant practice of âhire and fireâ policy in these countries. If you are getting incompetent with age or due to some reason, you can be thrown by the management by asking you to submit a resignation.
There is an urgent need for a world body which can monitor such practices and prevent exploitation of employees at all levels.
With much gratitude and respect for the employees of the world,
