Tuesday, May 18, 2010

கர்லிச்சா, டல்ப்பா துல்ய்யா?

ஜப்பான்ல சிங்கம் ஒரு வழிபாட்டு சிலையா இல்ல கடவுள்ளின் காவல் தெய்வம் பாக்குறாங்க. ஆனா இந்த சிங்கம் வந்தது சீனா விலிருந்து. ஜப்பான் மொழில சிங்கம் = சிஷி. ஒரு வகைல இத LION DOG அப்பிடினும் சொல்லுறாங்க. புத்தர் சீனாவிலிருந்து கொரியா வழிய ஜப்பான் வந்த பொது இந்த சிஷி கூட்டிட்டு வந்ததா ஒரு ஐதீகம். இந்த ஊருல சிங்கம் இப்படி ஷோ கேஸ் பொம்மையாதான் வச்சிருன்காங்க.


அதே மாதிரி இந்த சிங்கம் புத்தருடைய விருப்பமான விலங்கு? ஆஹிம்சைய போதிச்சவருக்கு எதுக்கு ஹிம்சை செய்ற விளங்குனு கேக்க கூடாது. பரவலா எல்ல புத்த மதம் பின்பற்வங்க நாட்டுலயும் சிங்கம் ஒரு சின்னமா இருக்கும். ஜப்பான், சீனா, ஸ்ரீலங்கா இப்படி . ஸ்ரீலங்கா ஒரு படி மேல போய் தன்னோட அரசாங்கத்தின் சின்னமாவே அறிவிச்சிருக்காங்க.

அப்பிடி பட்ட சிங்கத்தையே, "கர்லிச்சா, டல்ப்பா துல்ய்யா?" அதாங்க சிங்கம்ன்னா, பெரிய பருப்பா? அப்பிடின்னு கேட்டு கிடுகிடுக்க வச்ச ஒரு மாவீரரோட நினைவுநாள் இன்று. இன்னும் கூட என்னால், ஏன் பலப்பேரால் அவர் இறந்துட்டாருன்னு நம்பமுடியல. பல விஷயங்கள்ல எனக்கு பிரபாகரனை பிடிக்கலைனாலும், நிகழ்வுலகத்தின் நிஜ கதாநாயகன் நினைக்கும்போது உடம்பு புல்லரிக்குது.

A Royal Salute to a great warrior of this Century

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Dynamics of Society - Educate-to-Hire

Dynamics of recruitment is changing over the time. Long back when my uncle wanted to join a decent company it was pretty difficult for him - reason ? he had secured only Diploma, which was often seen as a low end course. After a long struggle to stabilize his career he did engineering in AU and joined a company. Now he is holding a post of GM for the design team in his company.

My mom joined the government organization right after her PUC when she was 18 yrs. The difference between my mom's career graph and my uncles is just 10 yrs apart. A decade ago engineering bloomed as high paying career option for Indians- thanks to IT outsourcing boom. I'm very specific because, India is still doing the back office work in IT services and not yet the products. Well thats a different topic altogether- we will see it some other day!

Way back in 1999-2002, the Indian IT companies believed in linear growth, i.e, more projects = more manpower. The need of engineers suddenly surged and resulted in mushrooms of Engineering college across the country (still only a boom in major towns & cities). More demand & less supply = high price; simple economics. Companies like Infosys, Wipro and TCS started hiking the salary more than the growth of bank interest or real estate need. They proved that engineering is better investment.

But it didn't sustain for long - reason? Outsourcing always aim at reducing something. If GE is gonna pay $20 on its mainland IT services, by outsourcing they expect to do it by $15. So over the period, price gets reduced (more competition = reduced price). Companies now need to find ways to cut cost.

If you look at IT companies balance sheet, in the expenditure column Salary to Employees will be the major chunk (nearly 30~45%). After 10 years, now IT companies have realized the monster they have built all these years has come back to haunt them. They need to find alternate to engineering. By the way, what these engineers do in IT company? Simple they code. They write piece of logical steps to run something (mostly a software). What makes them highly priced? 1. Demand and 2. Technology - both are dynamic.

IT companies decided to play down their Engineering needs. They started recruiting the less used route of BSc., BCom grads. Its much easily available and IT companies doesn't need a guy who knows laplace transform or Butterfly theory (both are specialized for Communication engineering). They need someone who know simple maths and logical thinking. They started hiring these people at much cheaper salary (5K~11K) comparitively less than engineers (11K~17K). Now I call them really innovative. They cut their cost by 50% while getting the same work done.

Couple of days back, I read Blog of Krishna, who introduced me ZOHO University which hires school students (apparently claims to be between 16 ~20 yrs of age). Now India already doesn't have a sound education model which encourages or inculcates research based study. The exams just build competitiveness within the individual and does really help him to apply the education even after 3/4 years of good education.

By hiring people under 20, who are passed out of schools we are creating a society which will not have formal education which is a basic right of the individual. Though ZOHO claims to provide the best "neccessary" education, end of the day down after 5 years, even if the individual wish to take up a master's degree or something outside India, they would never be able to do that. Because formal education is must for any other university based education. Just to improve their bottomline & profits ZOHO is trying to mis use the unavailability of education to certain sections. Instead if they would tie up with some university like and provide a part time job it would be more beneficial for them.

So from Grads to Diploma to High School students, whom they are going to recruit next? Babies?