India Transpire as Goal For Dream Jobs

India has emerged as the dream destination for most job-seekers with nearly 60 per cent job seekers looking for their aspirations in the country, according to a survey.

Nearly 60 per cent job-seekers wanted their dream job in India making the country the dream destination for most job-seekers, according to a TimesJobs survey.

Over 40 per cent seek their dream jobs overseas, the survey further revealed.

The survey was conducted among 1,100 job-seekers in the country.

It found that while engineering is the dream profile for men job-seekers, women yearned to become a doctor or be in the medical profession.

Among men, nearly 25 per cent job-seekers wanted to be a doctor or medical professional, 20 per cent want to be in the Information Technology (IT) industry, 15 per cent would like to become chartered accountants and 10 per cent are keen to become a lawyer, it said.

Women job-seekers, besides the eagerness for becoming doctor or medical professional, 25 per cent want to be Chartered Accountants (CA), 20 per cent would like to be in IT, 15 per cent wanted to become engineers and 10 per cent would like to be part of the human resource (HR) profession.

Overall, IT is the dream sector with nearly 35 per cent job-seekers wanted to work in the industry followed by healthcare and manufacturing sector for about 30 per cent each, it said.

Nearly 25 per cent job-seekers wanted to be in telecom industry, and another 25 per cent are interested to be part of the automobiles sector, the survey said.

Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI) was the choice of 20 per cent job-seekers, while 16 per cent seek opportunities in the logistics sector.

Nearly 15 per cent job-seekers picked retail industry and another 15 per cent choose BPO or ITeS sector.

For 10 per cent their dream sector was consumer durables or FMCG, the survey said.

The survey revealed that about 55 per cent job-seekers felt they are not currently working in their dream profile.

Of these, it said, 65 per cent men job-seekers felt their current role is not their dream role while 75 per cent women job-seekers said the same.

It said, about 70 per cent job seekers considered the industry they are working in as their 'dream sector'.

About 70 per cent job-seekers haven't still been able to get a job in a company they aspired to work, while 25 per cent job-seekers said they have given up on the idea of their dream jobs

Taking Many of Steps Get Dream Job

Your goal therefore must be to find the perfect job for you, the one that only you can perform the best, because it a manifestation of your personal dream and your life's goals.

1. Learn what you love.

Over the years, I've asked hundreds of people, If you could have any job you wanted, what would it be

That's pitiful, because if you don't have a clear idea of what constitutes your dream job, the likelihood of getting it is exactly zero.

Therefore, the first step toward getting a dream job is knowing what interests you and what makes you happy. Then find a job (or create your own job description) that includes and combines as many of those things as possible.

For example, my dream job included writing and helping people, with a little bit of entertaining thrown into the mix all things I loved doing from when I was a child.

Ultimately it's what you love that will make you successful; not what you think might make you successful. The world is full of unhappy successful people who never followed their dreams.

2. Emulate your role models' thought processes.

Everyone knows that having good role models is a shortcut to success. Unfortunately, most people use role models the wrong way they imitate the role model's plan of action. This is ineffective because plans that were brilliant 20 years ago (or even two years ago) are already old hat.

For example, suppose your dream job is to be a film director and your role model is Steven Spielberg. His plan to get into the business involved hanging around a film studio as an unpaid (and unofficial) intern.

Unfortunately, everyone who wants to get into the film industry has already heard that Spielberg story and it's been tried dozens of times and today's film studios are different, with more security and less access. His plan won't work for you.

What's important about a role model is how they think. Spielberg, for example, ignored other's opinion of his talent. (He was twice rejected from film school.) That's how you'd need to think, if your dream job is to direct films.

You can learn about a role model's thought processes by reading biographies, interviews, and profiles. Ideally, though, you should ask your role model personally, if that's possible. In any case, the more deeply you understand how successful people think, the more likely you'll be successful at finding your dream job.

3. Be willing to pay the price.

To achieve your dream job, you may need to sacrifice other things, such as having a family right now or eating out a lot. Maybe even eating at all. Please note that sacrifice is not always required. Many people achieve dream jobs but have rich family lives, interesting hobbies, and so forth.

What is always required is the willingness to make those sacrifices, if called upon to do so. If you're not at least willing to sacrifice, you'll probably never achieve your dream job, because you won't take the necessary risks.

In my case, I had to be willing to give up my identity as an executive, the predictability of a steady paycheck, and (sob!) paid vacations. For your dream job it will be different, but this isn't the time to be timid.

4. Learn to love selling.

I can't make this point too strongly. Unless you learn how to sell your ideas, yourself, and the value of your services, you'll never achieve your dream job.

Your dream job may be based upon the most innovative idea since the iPod, but if you can't sell that idea to investors, customers, or job candidates, it's just so much air.

In my case, I realized from the moment I became a professional writer that in the beginning selling would be 99 percent of my dream job, because I didn't yet have any contracts.

Now, I could have convinced myself (as many do) that I hate selling But I realized that if I wanted to be successful, I'd need love the part of my dream job that involved selling.

So, do I love selling more than the writing Uh, no. But I do enjoy the selling part of the job because it, too, involves helping people, which is one of the things I love. That's the primary reason, BTW, that I'm more successful than most other freelancers.

5. Create an initial plan.

In my opinion, most people overthink the planning part of getting a dream job. It's essential to have a plan, based upon your best ideas of how to get where you want to go, but you can't afford to wait until you've got the perfect plan.

The main value to making an initial plan isn't that it gives you boxes to check off that take you directly to your goal. Planning for your dream job doesn't work that way.

What planning does is put your initial activities into context and gives you something to change and modify as you move forward.

For example, if you're starting a business, it's crucial to set financial milestones and have a workable business model. If you don't do that, you don't know where to start.

However, as you take action and move forward, your plan will change, because you'll learn what works and what doesn't. Planning means setting yourself up to learn.

6. Take a leap of faith.

As I've written previously, every entrepreneur must have courage, and that's true of everybody and anybody who wants to find their dream job.

But courage isn't really enough. Achieving your dream job requires believing in yourself and taking a true leap of faith based upon the belief.

Just do it.

7. Take massive action.

Now that you're committed, take as much action as possible based upon your initial plan. Your intermediate goal is not to do everything correctly, but to do as much as possible so that you can learn everything possible.

Because you always learn more from your mistakes than your successes, you must do so many things that you end up making as many mistakes as possible

In the meantime, taking massive action almost guarantees that some of those actions will work and move you closer to your goal. You'll learn to make distinctions that will help you through everything you do.

Here's an example of how massive action works. I know two writers who want to make a living writing science fiction. Both are equally talented, but one took massive action and the other didn't.

The first author sent his manuscript to dozens of publishers and agents. He got a lot of rejections and a lot of advice. He used that to hone his manuscript (and his sales approach) and is now published several time over.

The second author was so afraid of rejection that he sent his manuscript one small publisher. When that publisher passed on it, he sulked for month, and then sent it to a second publisher. I think he's on publisher number five at this point and still no closer to his goal.

8. Adjust your plan based on results.

Another advantage of taking massive action it that it allows you to quickly reevaluate your plan and make adjustments. Your results (both good and bad) provide the guidelines that allow you to build a better plan. It's an ongoing process.

You may also find (as I did) that your dream evolves as you pursue it. In that case, your plan adapts as well, still moving you ever closer to your goal, even if it's not the same goal that you started with. That's OK.

In my case, my original dream job was to write novels but, while I still dabble in fiction, my dream job is writing blog posts like this, because I know that this the best way I have to help you to get what you want. That's my dream job.

9. Become a role model.

Once you've achieved your dream job (and you will, if you follow the first eight steps), it's now your responsibility to help other people find their dream job.

The easiest way to do this is to be a good role model, not just in your actions, but in your willingness to explain your thought process to those who see you as a model.

If you've been fortunate enough to have a mentor in any part of your quest, you know how important that kind of attention can be. So pass your expertise along.

HR TRENDS IN 2017

Over the past few years, Job Market in India has grown exponentially, ensued by the increasing interests of investors in new companies in India and overseas. Having wooed foreign investors and alluring many foreign companies to set base in India, the HR industry practices have undergone major transformation this year. Amalgamating best Indian practices with overseas practices, using technology, the HR industry will continue enhancing the overall industry experience for all stakeholders’ – employees, job seekers, employers and talent hunters etc.

Being a part of the industry, we’ve had opportunities to closely observe various employers and their hiring practices and interact with industry think tanks and consulting companies. Consequently, we get firsthand information on prevalent industry practices, and trends indicate that in the coming year, both job seekers and employers will have more leverage, which will hopefully cause salaries to increase and employers will invest more on job advertising, staffing firms and employee benefits. The trends also make it apparent that demand for more flexible work environment will continue and the industry will witness emergence of HR practitioners with new skills, including people analytics, internet marketing, branding and knowledge on new technologies like virtual reality and wearables.

To win the war for talent, major economies and business across the globe have been focused on creating better employment experience for job seekers and candidates with overtime and compensation, annual performance review, the rise of Generation Z and the shift to the on-demand workforce. Following that, the workplace trends in the coming year will have reflections of these trends and will impact how companies recruit, retain, train and structure their workforce for the future. Treading on these line-of-thoughts, the top workplace trends for 2017 include:

1. Branding businesses to attract talent

There are certain significant job roles that have always suffered substantial demand and supply gap. While it has always been relatively easier to find job seekers, finding a quality candidate has always been a treasure hunt. With a firm finger on the market pulse, this year companies will be seen making great sales pitches to attract quality candidates using social media like Glassdoor, Facebook, LinkedIn.

2. Recruitment marketplaces will go big

Manpower Heavy Industries mostly hire in volumes and quality candidates have been a challenge for ever now. While floating requirements to multiple consultants simultaneously, has been a standard practice to speed up the hiring process, the process was tedious and relatively fatiguing, till it was done offline. The last few years have already seen the rise of recruitment marketplaces and following the trend, the year 2017 will see the industry flourish. These recruitment marketplaces connect employers to recruitment consultants using a digital platform. Industry players like Quezx, CBREX, PiQube, RecruitLoop make the entire process fast, more scalable and better tracked.


3. Tech to become indispensable in HR procedures

One of the major challenges that have plagued talent acquisition for years is screening resumes efficiently and time-effectively. Almost 52% of talent acquisition experts are of the opinion that identifying right candidates from a large pool of applicants is the hardest part of the entire process. Therefore, this year will see integration of technology into HR procedures to make life easier for hiring professionals, starting from AI chatbots to do just about anything, such as predicting who is looking for jobs by crawling social web.

4. Video interviews and assessments become pervasive

While the concept in itself is not new, the industry has always wanted a customized version of Skype for Job interviews. The coming year will see the rise of such video technology, largely to solve issues of accessibility. Such websites help in keeping a documented record of the interview to review later, live problem solving and candidate rating during interviews. Considering the trends, this technology might be taken a notch higher to automatically rate videos based on objective hiring parameters. For Example: Talview, Monjin.

5. Rise in task based jobs and work from home jobs

With Gig economy being on the rise, companies want talents for short term tasks and reward them instantly for their work. Gig economy has taken various industries by its strides and creating ripples in the market, nevertheless, the long term salaried employment still remains unperturbed by the trend. Despite that, the coming year will see companies modeled around freelancing and task based jobs, rise majorly.

6. Rise of industry training

No matter how meritorious a fresh graduate is; fresher recruitment has been a challenge globally. This is mostly because fresh graduates are not really trained for industry. Along with drawbacks like lack of professional approach, they also lack the skillset required for a particular type of job. Owing to such weaknesses, industry-training tie-ups are on the rise in India. Fresh graduates have to go through a tailor made training programme before being deployed at the corporate. BFSI segment has successfully set up such programmes with ITM Edutech, Manipal Training.

7. Technology in background-check to gain prominence

There has been a history of candidates misinforming employers during hiring processes, which makes background verification a mandatory step towards a successful hiring. The coming year will observe emergence of technology that will enable faster and more automated way of doing background verification. Companies like InstaVeritas, Idfy, and Better Place are doing some exciting work in this space. Using technology, huge online repositories of background verification have been created that is also timely updated.

8. Office attires to become more casual

Several years ago Richard Branson made news with a picture of cutting his tie with a pair of scissors, which was published by Forbes magazine. With the rise of younger generations, 2017 will see continuation of such trends, with more employees demanding to drop their suits and ties, in exchange for jeans and shirts.

9. Employee engagement to gain prominence

Employee engagement as a concept has been in the market for ever now. However, there were very few who understood the significance of such activities. With the rise of demanding Gen Z employees, 2017 will see more and more companies engaging their employees to establish a connection with them, bringing the performers in them.

10. Enhanced performance management and appraisals

As discussed in the beginning of this article, the Indian job market has grown and evolved and with it has evolved the roles and responsibilities of managers. Managers will be seen focusing on creating development plans for employees that support their career goals and interests. Appraisals will be linked to the overall development of the employees, rather than them simply hitting their targets.

Front Office Automation Benefits

Process automation is a hot topic these days and it is playing a key role in the larger area of BPM (Business Process Management). But, automation doesn’t necessarily have to be discussed in the context of robotics. In fact, it has an important role in the area of front office operations as well.

Automating front office operations can lead to a range of benefits that will revolutionize the way companies interact with their customers. There are several functions that take place within the front office, such as updating queries/complaints, gathering customer data, security checks and so on that are dependent on human involvement.

However, with automation, human agents can be motivated to become more involved in these functions. Additionally, there can be other benefits such as reduction in transaction time, fewer errors, and faster response times.

After all, all businesses want error-free transactions, immediate problem resolution, better customer experience, and fewer conversations. Automation makes all of this possible.

Now, let us explore these benefits in more detail.

Reduced call duration

One of the goals of a front office is to reduce the time taken to answer a customer query. After all, the customer is king and you can’t have them waiting too long. Automation overcomes the challenge of call delays by providing faster access to solutions. Just a few clicks and you’re done.

Fewer errors

The problem with manually carrying out a task is that there is always room for error. This issue is compounded when agents have to deal with customers while carrying out these tasks. However, when an automation solution is deployed, it allows the human agents to focus more on responding to the customer while the solution handles all the core processes.

For instance, an agent will not have to toggle between multiple applications to collect customer details. The automation solution will handle this with efficiency for the agent. In turn, the agent can respond to queries in a quicker manner and with accurate information.

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- Handling Entire Recruitment cycle, Joining Process, Employee Induction,HR
- Payroll and Administration.
- Documenting HR processes via HRMS software.
- Taking care of office infrastructure in IT, Civil Matters and entire housekeeping.
- Admin procurement of Sundry Items for Business Purposes.
- Handling employee and office infrastructure insurance process end to end.
- Taking care of vendor services and payments.
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- Travel desk management.
- Housekeeping services, Security services, F&B operations, Maintenance of Cafeteria.
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