Do you think your qualification is enough to get you the finest job? If yes, then what is the main reason in not achieving this target?
The buzz word in the job-seeker community is the ‘Reference’. Everybody wants a lucrative job – a job with which a lot of glittering attractions are associated and it does not matter whether one has aptitude, qualification or expertise to do justice with that post. One adopts every possible mean and effort to grab such an opportunity without considering the pros and cons and soon after fell in a situation where one starts feeling misfit and loses all the motivation to carry out the responsibilities to prove beneficial at personal as well as organisational level.
Now-a-days, most of the employers’ are more focused on reference one has to give a job rather than considering other basic requisites. So it is becoming more desirable in the job market that that to whom you know rather than what you know.
The reference culture is prevailing like a viral disease in our society – killing the merit, hard work, hope, future and in a result as well as harming the growth of the institutions and organisations. We still don’t know whether we will be getting the job on the basis of the qualification or we have to buy the ice candy which everyone calls “Reference”. No one knows what is the actual meaning behind this observable fact? But we can say that it can just be arise because of the dishonesty, greediness and meanness.
Have you ever thought that what is fault of all such innocent people who waste their lives laying down on the railway tracks just because of unemployment? We are speechless in this regard as if a bachelor degree holder becomes the CEO of a company just because of having strong references. With the passage of the time, this minor issue has started becoming a bigger one and on the other hand, our government has been doing nothing in this regard rather obliging its blue-eyed with both the hands despite knowing the fact that, they have been depriving the needy ones of their basic rights.
Most of the parents spend huge money on the education of their children so that they may get best suitable jobs in future. But they don’t know that the current scenario and our corrupt system making their futures bleak. And the where they will go to get a job will just demand a strong reference from them. You degrees and CV will not move from one place to another until and unless you don’t add a strong reference. We have often seen that jobless young men get frustrated just because of unemployment. We often state such people ‘was he mad or whatever’ but we never tried to dig up the real problem and matter behind it which none other than the unemployment and cruelty of this world towards him.
Sometimes, we think that there is no solution of this incurable disease but simultaneously our mind does not accept this bitter reality and we hope that no, someday there will be surely a good change and all the deserving people will get the jobs according to their calibers. It is hope through which we are living in this world despite too many problem simultaneously but this hope give us courage and push us towards the direction which leads us towards our destination.
So I think there is no need to worry and get frustrated over this petty issue but the dire need of the hour is to highlight this curse and try to sort out the ways to get rid of this cancerous disease. If every educated person starts endeavouring to highlight this issue at all the forums he can access and if our media points out the culprits involve in this shameful act at various levels, then time is not far when we will root out this disease and we will able to provide our youngsters to their calibers especially on merit in a fair and transparent way.
The writer is ex-Lums grad.