RETIRE EARLY? NO WAY!

15 Jan 2011

RETIRE EARLY? NO WAY!

That is what Indians seem to be saying.

French insurer Axa Life Insurance asked workers in many countries, what should be the ideal retirement age. Here are some answers:

·         India  ……………61 years (from current 58 years)

·         Hong Kong/Indonesia … 55  years

·         China  ………………………  54  years

Apparently, residents of Hong Kong seem to be most assured about their post-retirement income, with 55 % of them availing of early retirement and a mere 17 % working till normal retirement age!

Compare this with 70 % of the Indians, who continue to work till their normal retirement age.

And that applies to only 10 % of the 460 million Indians who work in the “organized sector“.

Balance 90 % of Indian workers don’t even know the concept of “retirement “! Happily or unhappily, they start working as a 5 year old child and continue till grave!

Hemen  Parekh 

CAKEWALK FOR JOBSEEKERS?

Here are some interesting findings from a Nielsen India Study conducted in Dec.2010 (Times of India/Jan 12, 2011):

 Of the 626 Indian male executives surveyed,

·        85 % believe clean-shaven men get to attend meetings and   travel out of the office

·        86 % felt, when it comes to promotion, clean-shaven men have upper hand

·        73 % said women like to accompany clean-shaven men to party

  

Of the 414 women bosses surveyed,

·        90 % preferred clean-shaven men

·        79 % felt clean-shaven men have successful careers

·        66 % believe getting a job is a cakewalk for clean-shaven men

·        66 % prefer taking a clean-shaven man to meet her parents

At least in India, bearded men seem to face a bleak future!

Blessed are the clean-shaven for they shall inherit the earth!

  

Hemen  Parekh

OUTSOURCE TO INDIA, SAVE UK’S NHS

6 Jan 2011

“OUTSOURCE TO INDIA, SAVE UK’S NHS“

This is the title DNA newspaper (Jan 05 2011) gave to a PTI report from London.

According to this report, John Neilson, the Managing Director of Britain’s National Health Services (NHS), said millions of pounds could be saved by outsourcing more NHS administration to India.

NHS is responsible for leading healthcare efficiency reforms in the UK.

As pressure on NHS budgets intensifies, Neilson suggested that the alternative is cuts to services.

Or is he advocating more of “Medical Tourism “?

For the world as a whole, it seems the only option is to evenly distribute “joblessness“ across national borders.

  

Hemen  Parekh

FOR JOBLESS: WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE FAILS.

If you are 27 year old, got your resume re-written by many resume-writing experts, applied unsuccessfully against 48 job vacancies and still jobless after 2 years, you may want to consider adding, right on top of your resume ( in bold letters ):

“ I am a born workaholic. My work ethics motivate me to work for 12 hours per day for 7 days a week – without overtime payment. I can beat any Chinese worker in productivity “

There is a high probability that you get an interview call.

You have nothing to lose but everything to gain !

Hemen  Parekh

CREATING JOBS ALL OVER THE WORLD ?

In Nov.2010, President Obama visited India with the declared purpose of signing trade deals worth $ 10 billion.

That enabled him to claim creation of 50,000 jobs for the jobless Americans – and to reclaim some of his lost popularity.

With joblessness threatening governments around the world, other politicians lost no time in picking up the hint.

Virtually lining up to sign their own trade deals were

• Cameron of UK

• Sarkozy of France

• Jiabao of China

• Medvedev of Russia 

In quick succession, they came and signed trade deals ( aka “ selling goods to India “ ) worth $ 100 billions.

In a short period of 6 weeks, India helped create 500,000 jobs around the world !

In the meantime, 42 million young Indians registered with the State Employment Exchanges of India are waiting for the world to “ buy “ a few things from India so that some of them can get job-offers.

They don’t care whether India gets a permanent membership of UN Security Council or not !

Hemen  Parekh

CREATING JOBS ALL OVER THE WORLD?

23 Dec 2010

CREATING JOBS ALL OVER THE WORLD?

In Nov.2010, President Obama visited India with the declared purpose of signing trade deals worth $ 10 billion.

That enabled him to claim creation of 50,000 jobs for the jobless Americans – and to reclaim some of his lost popularity.

With joblessness threatening governments around the world, other politicians lost no time in picking up the hint.

Virtually lining up to sign their own trade deals were

• Cameron of UK

• Sarkozy of France

• Jiabao of China

• Medvedev of Russia

In quick succession, they came and signed trade deals ( aka “ selling goods to India “ ) worth $ 100 billions.

In a short period of 6 weeks, India helped create 500,000 jobs around the world!

In the meantime, 42 million young Indians registered with the State Employment Exchanges of India are waiting for the world to “ buy “ a few things from India so that some of them can get job-offers.

They don’t care whether India gets a permanent membership of UN Security Council or not!

Hemen  Parekh

JOBSEEKERS MUST BE SPRINTERS?

Abhi, Kartavya 

Mumbai Municipal Corporation (India) wanted to fill up 4000 posts of street sweepers. So, it advertised in local newspapers, saying applicants should have passed 8^th Standard (10^th being school graduation).

That led to a flood of 300,000 applications.

How can anyone go thru 300,000 resumes to shortlist 4,000 candidates ?

No problem.

Additional “Eligibility Criteria “ required that candidates must be

·      165 cm tall

·      capable of running 4 Km in 15 Min ( 16 Km / hour )

Now, if a candidate can sweep 128 Km of roads in an 8 hour shift ( @ 16 Km / hour ), then the Municipal Corporation should need only 32 sweepers to sweep 4000 Km of Mumbai roads !

Why invest in sweeping machines if you can employ 4000?

Hemen  Parekh

JOB SEARCH INNOVATION ?

Tristam Rossin of London posted a “ sell “ ad on eBay. He offered to sell his graphic design skills for 40 hours / week for one year.

He even got the highest bid for Pound 3100.

But then eBay removed his listing, saying “ it is a breach of our policies “.

Thank God, there are no laws prohibiting a jobless guy from innovating his job search strategy !

Hemen  Parekh

JOB SEARCH STRATEGY ?

For many jobseekers, their foremost job search strategy is to surf the job portals – daily, and often for hours-on-end.

But this is not something every jobseeker can do or even need to do. All over the world, there are millions of jobseekers whose only access to internet is from a cybercafé – and once a week !

Now a day, nearly all job portals send job alert emails on a daily / weekly basis.

Then there are some portals which deliver SMS job alerts on mobile and even enable a jobseeker to “ Apply “ against any alert , directly from mobile – eliminating the need to surf / log-in.

There is hardly a jobseeker who does not have a mobile !

If this trend accelerates, online job searching may not remain the foremost job search strategy.

Hemen  Parekh 

JOB ARCHIVE OR JOBS ARCHIVE ?

In Google or in Yahoo, you may search for

Job Archive

Or

Jobs Archive

With 2.3 million jobs in our “ Job Search by Job Title “ database, it is not surprising that Google and Yahoo both agree that

www.CustomizeResume.com

deserves to appear right on  TOP  of  295  /  1960 MILLIONS of WebPages !

Hemen  Parekh