Knowing that unprecedented rise in joblessness triggered by back to back three Covid lockdowns in last three years has generated a wave of hopelessness among jobless youth in Jammu & Kashmir particularly those having completed degrees a diplomas in different streams of engineering the skill development department of Jammu & Kashmir Government has started a placement drive at both Government and private engineering colleges in Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. The reach out of the big industrial houses of the country to jobless engineers at the campuses of the engineering colleges of Jammu & Kashmir is by all standards of understandabilities the beginning of a big initiative for reducing the increasing intensity of joblessness in Jammu & Kashmir. Placement drive shows the Government’s increasing interest in conduct of job fairs for the engineering pass outs of last three years and obviously the purpose of this placement drive is to connect the best talent of Jammu & Kashmir with best of the industrial houses in rest of the country. Such placement drives do not only give industry exposure to jobless engineers but also give them opportunities to know all about the scope for their involvement and engagement with the industrial development in other parts of the country. It is an opportunity for the jobless engineers to know that they don’t have a future only in Government jobs but their future lies also in the industrial development of the country. Since such placement drives will most likely expose jobless engineers to job opportunities in the corporate world ranging from big Multinational Companies (MNCs) to the core manufacturing companies and as wells as the industrial establishments, the ongoing placement drive will consequently bridge the gap between top recruiters of the country and the engineering pass outs Jammu & Kashmir who are desperate to find placements anywhere in private sector within or outside Jammu & Kashmir.
Experience and expertise to compete in the corporate world takes the job seekers to the right place at the right time. In fact such placement drives if continued in future would be an opportunity for the engineering pass outs of Jammu & Kashmir to know all about the industry demands and real-life work challenges in other parts of the country. Significantly they can learn how to prepare for recruitment processes, how to interact with the people in corporate world formally rather than being casual in interactions.
The placement drive will ease the job of recruiters also. Let the jobless engineers know it fully that job market in other parts of the country is full of challenges and it requires lots of skills. What matters the most is the fact that experience and expertise to compete in the corporate world takes the job seekers to the right place at the right time. In fact such placement drives if continued in future would be an opportunity for the engineering pass outs of Jammu & Kashmir to know all about the industry demands and real-life work challenges in other parts of the country. Significantly they can learn how to prepare for recruitment processes, how to interact with the people in corporate world formally rather than being casual in interactions.
