Get a handle on job-recruitment tendencies
by
Neville Parker |
Neville Parker focuses on hiring of managerial staff by unconventional methods
Graduating students are hereby informed that recruitment, even for the very basic of jobs, is likely to get trendier and more innovative as the days pass. There are instances of multinational companies and global corporates hiring their managerial and technical staff by introducing a variety of unconventional methods like mountain climbing, swimming, doing a 10-minute head-stand, meditating, playing golf and even such things as eating sushi using chop-sticks or rapidly swinging a fly-swatter!
Job-hunting youth, it appears, now ought to be trained for such eventualities for one never knows what will crop up during the interview. One can’t really predict the quirky future of recruiting tendencies nor how far they will go in their whacky ways for economic gain. Who can tell that, in some distant time, touchy and abhorrent tendencies like ‘bragging at work’, ‘gossiping in office’ or even ‘petty-office-conniving’, which many office-goers will no doubt be familiar with, could be added to the list!
Which reminds me, there isn’t an academic institute on our planet that imparts an ‘education’ in the art of bragging or gossiping, which is surprising really since many successful go-getters will privately endorse the view that these ‘fine arts’ are handy aids to successfully scale the corporate and social mountains. This could be a pointer to a lucrative future looming on the horizon for some smart alec of an entrepreneur who may want to conjure up a ‘pre-job quirky-interview training school’ to teach aspiring candidates their choice of the modern world’s growing list of unconventional recruitment tendencies.
Physical fitness, however, is a mainstay. It has become a prime requirement for landing jobs in any field. Take for example the recent recruitment of porters (commonly known as coolies) in the gargantuan Indian Railways system.
As was keenly observed on this particular occasion in Mumbai the other day, according to the Times of India, our students of letters (graduates, some also with additional qualifications) were among the candidates who had turned up to pitch their collective graduation hats and gowns in the fray for what they viewed as a plum job of a coolie, one that would not only keep the home fires burning regularly but also lead to further promotion…as a railway gangman in the system!
But alas, as it turned out, the physical tasks assigned to the candidates for making it to the merit list proved too high a hurdle for many to cross. After all, if one intends to become a ‘coolie’ then one needs to possess some athletic prowess too. Maybe not of Olympic standards but aspiring candidates must at least know how to run…and run fast with a head-load too, if they are to succeed in getting their pound of baggage as the train settles into a crowded station. Anyway, by the time the competitors realised this fundamental discipline that coolies in India must be armed with, it was too late. They missed the bus, rather train in this case, as many among the by-now-panting aspirants fell far short of the finishing line. It isn’t easy to run 200 metres in 40 seconds with a 40kg payload if one is not trained for it!
Since many of them had never carried anything more heavier than their textbooks to class, their dreams of burdening themselves with other people’s baggage as a progressive career option remained unfulfilled.
Oman Tribune |
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