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Saturday, April 09, 2005
Gorment jobs and suchlike
TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan writes in Business Standard:
Srinivasa-Raghavan identifies the reasons for this, and suggests some remedies. Read the full thing.
Many readers will probably recall that [the] decline in preference amongst the best and the brightest for government jobs was not in evidence until quite recently, perhaps as late as 1995.
Although, thanks to the economic reforms that had started four years earlier, jobs outside the government were proliferating as never before, it was essentially a no-contest as far as job preferences went. Government jobs were still the preferred option.
But now the tables have been turned. Government service is generally seen as something you are forced to do when all else (even print journalism!) has failed.
Srinivasa-Raghavan identifies the reasons for this, and suggests some remedies. Read the full thing.
