The jobs paradox

Just four or five years after the big bang reforms of 1991, a market survey company asked me to rank job preferences among fresh graduates and MBAs. My list, based on my constant recruitment struggles at the time, ran thus: IT, finance, engineering, marketing and advertising (alas, journalism remained low on that list). The surveyor’s next question was indicative of how radically the nature of the white-collar job market had changed in a short time. What about the civil services, public sector jobs and the defence forces, he asked.

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