{"id":2087,"date":"2008-06-23T07:14:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/23\/job-fairs-see-less-indians-participating\/"},"modified":"2008-06-23T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T04:50:59","slug":"job-fairs-see-less-indians-participating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/23\/job-fairs-see-less-indians-participating\/","title":{"rendered":"job fairs see less indians participating"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m kind of surprised that Dr S.Subramaniam is saying<\/a> “it was disappointing that the participation of the Indian community in job fairs was not encouraging.<\/span>” He also mentioned that “indian youngsters should take an initiative to attend job fairs so that they could look and apply for jobs which might be suitable based on their qualifications.<\/span>”<\/p>\n

Time to time, I do attend such fairs (and also those related to education) and can notice significant number of Indians roaming around. The awareness is there to a certain extent.<\/p>\n

I know that concerned members of the community do take the initiative to spread information on such job fairs via emails, forums, and SMS. That reaches many of the Internet-enabled students and graduates. As for those in the outskirts or without Internet access, they have to rely on media and also more conventional methods. This is where MIC, IPF, NGOs, and various temple committees come into play. These people should be having good network of contacts, and thus able to use their premises to display news on job fairs. Newspapers which are own by political parties do highlight such fairs from time to time, but more prominence should be given.<\/p>\n

When you provide something that is beneficial to the people, people will come to you. No need to waste money on publicity campaigns or rebranding exercises.<\/p>\n

Of course there are those fraction of people who wait forever for things to fall onto their laps. But that is common among all communities.<\/p>\n

Now, the next questions will be: How many of those who attend get selected? Are job-seekers wary of discrimination by employers? Are the job-seekers qualified and well equipped with the necessary skills?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m kind of surprised that Dr S.Subramaniam is saying “it was disappointing that the participation of the Indian community in job fairs was not encouraging.” He also mentioned that “indian youngsters should take an initiative to attend job fairs so that they could look and apply for jobs which might be suitable based on their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,225],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}