Practicing

1. Researching Information
From a given set of Information

2. 1. Competing to hire the best and motivate
the rest
 Job hirer’s story
 HR practices / Business strategies to maintain ‘talent’ /
people
 Availability of existing & new Talent – in future higher
demand lower availability
 Life span demands a longer duration in work life
 Outsourcing to reduce costs

3. 2. How individuals can survive in the new
world of work
 Job seeker’s story
 Challenges in the job market
 Continuous upgradation of skills is required
 Job hoping to rise rather than continuing
 Fulfilling jobs are available instead of mundane ones
 Due to changing dynamics – social, business, health etc –
newer job opportunities are arising
 Short term versus long term jobs

4. 3. In the new world of work, unemployment is
high yet skilled and talented people are in
short supply. Matthew Bishop explains
 Imbalance of job distribution – across the world, across
economies, within a country

5. 4. The new world of work needs to be fair as well as
efficient
 Stress on the employment demands due to globalization – opening of
economies. Plus point of getting benefits but at some counts loosing
out too.
 Skills demand-supply management – countries loosing out as there
seems to be a mismatch between the education sector and industry.
(Special focus has been brought in India by businesses by initiating such
education programs or upskilling existing force
 Strong and stable govt policies to create positive environment for
business to expand, entrepreneurs to launch newer business models –
leading to more, newer jobs
 Balance of load the flexibility of the labour market – young vs
older, existing or non-existing flexibility, extent of flexibility

6. 5. Employers are getting free workers, interns
are getting a free education
 Pros and cons of Internship as a (work) culture.
 Is it pure learning for the intern or there much more too
it?
 Is it getting cheap labour for the organization?
 How many of the youngsters are actually able to take
this approach?

7. 6. Divisions are getting deeper
7. Policymakers can help create jobs, up to a
point
8. Job-hunting lessons for young Egyptians