Jobseekers
must be Sprinters ?
Mumbai
Municipal Corporation ( India
) wanted to fill up 4000 posts of street sweepers. So, it advertised in local
newspapers, saying applicants should have passed 8th Standard ( 10th
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
Ø
165
cm tall
Ø
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 ?
With
regards
hemen
parekh
Jobs
for All = Peace on Earth
Iceberg
of Unemployment
In
his “ Kotak Institutional Equities “ report,
“
365 Mn : Can India
live up to its demographic dividend ? “
(
as reported in DNA / Oct.21,2010 ),
Akhilesh
Titolia says :
Ø 23 / 25 million
Indians will become eligible for work every year for the next 15 years
Ø Out of these, 12 /
13 million will actively look for employment every year
Ø There will be 365
million young Indians by 2025
So,
what is India’s
score-card for job creation ?
MaFoi
Randstad Employment Trends Survey ( as reported in DNA / Dec.16,2010 ) reports
that private organized sector in India created following no. of jobs
:
In 2008 ………………………… 0.67 Million
In 2009 ………………………… 0.90 Million
In 2010 ………………………….1.13 Million
Will
India’s
Economy sink by hitting the tip of the Unemployment Iceberg ?
With
regards
Hemen
Parekh
Jobs
for All = Peace on Earth