Another masterpiece of an article, giving me yet another chance to add content to the 'pathetic journalism' section of my blog. This time, it is The Wall Street Journal, taking the honors.
The article talks about India graduating millions of students, but still they are not worthy to get hired. I have never read such an article which has been written after some really shallow research with relatively smaller lesser known companies.
Please go through the following points after reading the article on the WSJ website:
- India is not just about Call Center jobs
India graduates millions of students in diverse fields and subjects, and only a tiny little percentage actually takes up a job in a call center. To come up with examples of call center companies not able to find people who can speak english properly, and to reach a conclusion of they are not worthy of being hired, is utter crap and insane.
- How do we define proper English?
Proper English for a call center company might mean - English in the American accent/Western accent. If the company 24/7 can't find people in India who can speak English fluently in the American accent, or because they do not have the money and time for training Indians the American accent - does it mean Indian graduates are not hire-able? Incredible conclusions by the author of WSJ.
In the same manner, I could write up an article with the title "America graduates millions, but too few are fit to hire" - if needed for call-center jobs catering to Hindi-speaking Indians!
WSJ - get a life. Move beyond America and just Americans in your thought process. It won't be long when Americans would do anything to learn Hindi and Chinese to grab jobs in India and China (a trend already started.....)
- The examples of interviews are rubbish.
Just because an engineer said, his hobby is international travel but has not really traveled abroad, makes him unemployable is kiddish. A call-center company hires even a school drop-out if he/she can communicate well. This young man is an engineer, and if needed can get a technical job if not a call center job.
- The article mentions NIIT Ltd as a recruitment firm, and Maharashtra as a rural state (One of the most industrialized states in India - with Bombay, its capital - the financial capital of the country). Seriously WOW!!! Kudos to WSJ's research.
This is nothing but a sheer blatant attempt to ridicule "Indian Graduates" and some mind masturbation for the author and her likes at the WSJ. Literally, the author is going through an Identity Crysys.
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Sidharth Mehta
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ReplyDeleteTheir are few false premise in this article :
1. The sample space of the call centre company is very small and has beed generalized to entire 1.2billion ppl. This is blasphemy.
2. Those who are good in math et al never get into call centre non sense.
3. While i agree the quality of graduates are a concern, coz last estimates tell us that only 30odd percent of engineers are employable.
4. Weather Indian education has benifiited us all is a seperate debate but the only reason we(india,china) have such high levels of math at teenage levels, theres no reason to blame.
5.Most of the examples cited are indivisual and cannot be used to paint the whole picture. But yes, We do need some reforms in education system.