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he says. THE HUMAN FACTOR Dark side of the jobs boom SHYAMAL MAJUMDAR Here's his version of what Smi- ta has to go through at her work- place: the 24-year old MBA grad- uate has to maintain a 9 am to 10 pm routine everyday; her job pro- file requires her to do door-to-door canvassing for opening accounts; and the monthly variable compo- nent of her salary has been cut by Rs 8,500 at least thrice for failure to meet the targets. "You surely don't ondan MDAdalinio Companies offer unreachable targets, unrealistic incentive temptations and a poor work profile from the relatively lesser known in- require specialised degrees, com- stitutes, and the common refrain is panies say this is also inevitable that companies offer unreachable in a country where everybody and targets, unrealistic incentive temp- his uncle is either a first-class grad- tations and poor work profile. At uate or an engineer or an MBA. But a time when everybody is gung- the quality of teaching in most of ho about the huge employment these second-rung institutes is boom in India, these examples in- abysmal and companies often have dicate that many Indian companies to pay through their nose to train B-Com graduate who works as a are perhaps hiring for the future them. “Even after training, we have service officer in a BPO. The 4 pm recklessly without having a clue as no option but to offer these peo- to 2 am routine and the mindless- to the relationship between quali- ple jobs that are out of sync with trannntition toole non hodannorch fications and ich aufla thoixca mollod domom an UD mon mita Rajan (name changed), an MBA from one of the less- er-known B-schools in Mum- hni wron rolnd wohna chncont ninh S vate institutes in Kolkata. He came to Navi Mumbai to join a wind- mill company which has its head- in store in Can. The color of fice to see the lacunae in the sys- tem. One of his observations was that some people left the godown 11nmanned durinclinatima ubon fant that ...
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