As the job market continues to evolve amid rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), job seekers are facing increasing challenges, particularly freshers looking to secure their first jobs. Social media is filled with both success stories and accounts of the difficulties faced by job seekers during the hiring process.
According to the techie, many job seekers do not update their skills, maintain an online presence or reach out to potential employers through cold direct messages. He said such candidates are essentially relying on luck to secure jobs.
“Job market in India is completely collapsed today. He highlighted the importance of upskilling and maintaining an online presence to improve job prospects. He also spoke about the demand for tech support jobs, particularly night-shift roles, in Pune. He also shared that some of his friends had secured night-shift tech support jobs, while others had allegedly been asked to pay HR personnel money to secure employment. He further described what he called a grim picture of the job market, claiming that some companies themselves are unclear about their requirements. “If you don’t have emerging and the latest skills, you will never get an opportunity in this field. He also cautioned job seekers against paying money to secure employment. A friend of mine has been attending many interviews through Indeed and Naukri.
Because a large number of young people in the city are college students or freshers looking for employment, he said the demand for such jobs is high in Pune. Because they are difficult to learn, you need to stand out by developing skills that people generally avoid. He said there is a whole world beyond X where people are still learning the MERN stack, a collection of four open-source technologies that work together to simplify full-stack web development, and applying for jobs as they did in 2019. He said they often post senior-level Job Descriptions (JDs) for salaries as low as Rs 2.8 lakh per annum. He claimed that companies were asking for a minimum of Rs 5,000 and promising to return the amount with the candidate’s first salary.
Many job seekers do not update their skills, maintain an online presence or reach out to potential employers through cold direct messages, according to him. He said such candidates are essentially relying on luck to secure jobs. He said job seekers need to develop emerging and in-demand skills to improve their chances of securing opportunities in the field. Upskilling and maintaining an online presence are the only ways to stay ahead and have different job options,” he said. “And yes, if a company is asking you for money, you better know where you will be working,” he said. The techie further claimed that the job market in India has “completely collapsed”, citing the experience of a friend who had been attending interviews through job portals such as Indeed and Naukri. His friend said she would clear the technical round but was allegedly asked for money during the HR round to secure the job, according to him. “What joke is this?” he asked. She said that every time she passes the technical round, companies usually ask for money during the HR round to secure the job,” he wrote.
