Nilachakra

sub : To preserve the Impression of Odia people in IT Industry

Date : May 29, 2007 8:21 AM

Jai Jagannath,

Do you know why ?
Most of the resumes sent by candidates passed from Orissa are rejected.
Mostly Odia candidates are not getting interview calls.
In few companies management wish not to give responsible position to Odia professionals.
Due to few young odia people we are loosing impression in the society.

Well, as we all know a cylinder bursts when the expanding heated fuel pressure inside it overpowers the mechanical resistance of the metal frame. Don’t we all agree that in a very similar way, we too tampering the tolerance of It ecosystem. Honestly speaking because of few Odia people all Odia community across IT industries are loosing impression.

If we won’t get alerted and acknowledged with awareness to it now then we all will land up in trouble for sure. We need to restrict several things that are happening around us so as to preserve the impression of Odia people in IT industries. We ignore it today, we all suffer tomorrow. The most impacting factors that need immediate prevention are :

1. Fake Resume, Certificates :

The issue : Although comparatively negligible to those from other states, few Odia candidates are looking for job in IT with resumes containing fake experience, education, percentage and project details. They might think they are the smartest sperms to pierce thru the ovum, but the truth is the recruiting agencies and HR communities have become most alerted and organized to track down such things. May be some times due to crunch in project they hire such people, but once they finish with the project they instantly fire such people. They openly say resumes from Orissa are mostly fake. In some companies they simply throw resumes from odia candidates. This is a straight slap on our community.

Mitigation : I strongly recommend all our employed friends to do a preliminary round of sort listing of resume before referring them. To candidates who are showing experience, please tell them to send resume from personal id and just a friendly mail from their office ID.

2. Lack of adequate Professional maturity :

The issue : A descent email ID, an impressive resume, an honest appearance during professional engagements, a descent personality, a bit of responsibility and dedication at work. All these sums up to qualities of a good professional. Since almost 8 years I am helping people with their career, Sad to say but I have seen many candidates use to have email id either too long, having complicated digits, lot’s of ASCII characters and even indecent words that they may wish to show to their personal particular recipient.

Copying other’s resumes in the name of resume preparation has become an age old traditional method followed by all in the name of resume preparation. It’s high time we must get rid of this and type each and every characters and words of our own resume. Me must think that resume is the only medium of entering into a professional world. We must make it of our own and not copy and paste other’s. How ever we can always take reference, advice, guidance and suggestion from others to help us mend our resume.

Mitigation : We must prepare and practice to over come this.

3. Live-in together relation, a wrong message to society :

The issue : Yes, friends…. I am talking about something which is happening at your next door. A common scene around that has triggered an early warning to a possible massive cultural disaster. In a recent public meeting by "Karnataka Rakshana Vedike", I was stunned to find that they are started realizing the impact of other state people spoiling their society and culture. I heard the person on dais speaking about students and professionals from other state are maintaining live in relations in their neighborhood which highly impacts their off springs at home. Mind it my friends let's not repeat one more Maharastra Bihari incident at Karnataka atleast.

Mitigation : My sincere request to all my friends and youngsters to stay away from such things and better be honest and integrated for some one who waits at some corner of the world to be your partner for next seven lives.

4. Spoiling other’s career :

The issue : It has come to notice that few people are over jealous if they don't get the job but some one else achieves it and due to this what they do is some thing which will make your hairs stand straight. They complain to the HR of that company where one has got a job telling all unnecessary and absurd things about the candidate who got the job and make sure that the candidate looses his job. This they even don't hesitate to do against their own room mates, child hood friends and life time colleagues too.

This is not only ridiculous but also can be coined as the worst crime of professionalism. This not only spoils some one's career but also creates a bad impression with the IT companies for all candidates either from the same college, university or even the state.

Mitigation : I would strongly recommend if those who do this to come out from such a nasty work of back stabbing. I would request others to be extremely careful and alert against such crimes.

We must over come these else we all will have nothing but to repent.

Regards
Nilachakra