Manish Sabharwal is chairman of TeamLease, which has helped hire 1.4 million sales and customer service reps and logistics employees such as couriers for companies across India since it was founded in 2002.
A degree may help you start your career, but it is only skills that will build your career.
Campus placements are already in full-swing and hiring plans of many companies, whose expansion plans were stuck due to policy paralysis, are now getting green signals.
'Under-employment continues to be a very big problem.' 'What we see today is many youth who would have accepted any kind of job are not willing to accept any job.' 'They are ready to wait for a better job, one that justifies their educational qualification. 'This is one of the reasons why unemployment has risen.'
The first step in your order of priority should be to pay off any high-cost debt you might have incurred.
The start-up story appears to be losing its sheen due to corporate misgovernance, financial mismanagement and gender discrimination.
'In this resurgent India, class is the new caste. We are shaken up only occasionally, and briefly, when a battered, tribal teenager from Jharkhand looks us in the eye from our closet,' says Shekhar Gupta.
India must first improve working condition, then it can concentrate on Make in India concept.
Whether India can create labour-intensive factory jobs instead that it needs to put millions to work in the next few years looks very unlikely.
With a rise in the clout of Muslims in western Uttar Pradesh, fearful Hindus are being radicalised.
Young, ambitious workforce learns skill degrees come with no guarantees.
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