I have been looking for people for my department for quite some time now. Our criterion is that a candidate be a BBA or a MBA, and relevant experience is an added advantage. It's frustrating that we cannot find appropriate people, despite the fact Karachi churns out MBA like a cat does litter.
This is what we go through when recruiting Brand Executives and Assistant Brand Managers:
Hundreds of candidates appear for the test; 70% fail for they cannot write to save their lives (but mind you, most of them are MBAs from the top 5 business universities of Karachi). Anyway, out of 30% that appear for interviews, 24% are too immature, too fresh, too dumb, too aggressive or too inappropriate. We forcefully hire 6% of the candidates, knowing that we will have to incur the significant cost of training and developing them in to productive resources.
Therefore, I strongly counter the common belief that we do not have sufficient jobs in our part of the world. We have jobs, but the skill set required to perform them is shamelessly missing. I would, without a second thought, point fingers at the educational institutions, who pay no attention to grooming their graduates for the corporate world, and pay no heed to the lack of real world connection in their curricula.
Anyway, playing blame-game is not going to help anyone; let's just see what we can do about it. If you are just out of school with a degree, and the job market is being a bitch (even it justifiably so), here are 5 road maps to land your first job. They appeared in the Career section of Dawn newspaper, and are chalked out by Sadya Siddiqui.
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