Job Hunting for Freshers

Who will Tell the Truth?

Every year, year after year, I get utterly hit by the fresher season. Nothing has changed over the years. They remain as lost.Have we forgotten that job hunting for freshers comprises of decision making at a gun point? From a world where marks are the ultimate decision maker of choice, we push them into choosing career paths that the majority cannot translate into a picture of reality. 

Why do they have to learn the hard way? 

Reality is about asking what, how and why? But where are the answers to be found? I go to some of these career orientation programmes in schools. And I wonder who is going to tell them that travel jobs are not about traveling, nor hotel jobs about food, and neither are IT jobs about green cards! And if you want to believe that it is all crap, I suggest you go to a career counselor who deals in foreign education. Well, then you get to know the reality after paying some good money not only to them, but to some foreign Government. If you cannot translate reality into a career environment then the old fashioned way of trial and error may be more practical. It may take time to learn but is definitely cheaper and you have the luxury of wasting time to realize that all career choices are reversible or at least convertible.And what about the girls who are still wondering about the perfect choice – one that combines bread winning with marriage and kids? Well, you tell her there is no such thing! 

I really don’t have the guts!