The curious case of hiring in India
(This article has been co-written by Shalini Das and Abhinav Ghosh).
This week marked a flurry of articles from media outlets, as Jeff Bezos stepped into the Indian soil on a 3-day visit to mark a $1 Billion investment into Amazon India’s business in what he remarked of as a ‘century for India’.
Amidst all these announcements also lay a promise, to take the number of employees in India from 700K to 1 Million over the next 5 years.
As we enunciated in our last edition, why is hiring such an important point of discussion? It’s because of the striking contrasts that the industry always shows us — where we observe OYO laying off more than 2000 people in India to scale to profitability, and an e-commerce giant committing to growth in employment, all in the same country.
“But why should I think of it as a student?”
As a student in your late teens or early twenties, you are a part of the future workforce. Sooner or later, you’ll make a move about your career, that’s when these facts will help you leverage history to make decisions that work better in the long run.
We don’t believe in sugar-coating anything, and we’ll keep it simply blunt: some roles are definitely more prone to be laid off than others.
The reason is simple: If you’re a redundant intermediate in a scaling process, it is but obvious that you’ll be replaced once the focus shifts from growth to profitability. As a result, most lay-offs occur in functions such as operations and business development, not to say they aren’t adding value, however, most ‘tech-first’ startups choose to do away with such function first as they can be replaced with technology.
Just a quick example, previously customer support operations were broken for most services, but today after chatbots came in, most support tickets get closed without any human interference. Replacement is inevitable.
If you are an undergraduate, whichever year you might be in; we’d suggest you to focus on making a niche for yourself as early as possible — the clear reason being if you don’t find one, someone else will do it for you, which might not be the right one. The 3/4/5 years of college life isn’t just a time for exploring, but for discovering yourself, a timeline for which can be found here.
Team InternClick wishes you a fruitful career exploration, and may you find the best version of yourself soon.
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