Two million Indians reply to ad for 300 clerical jobs

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Two million Indians reply to ad for 300 clerical jobs

(BBC) Authorities in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, say they have been overwhelmed after receiving 2.3 million applications for 368 low-level government jobs.

Prerequisites for the posts include having primary school qualifications and being able to ride a bicycle.

But, tens of thousands of graduates, post-graduates and others with doctorate degrees have also applied.

An official said it will take four years to interview all the candidates.

"These candidates only have to be interviewed but my estimate is that the entire process will take at least four years to complete even if there are 10 boards interviewing 200 candidates a day, for 25 days a month," senior official Prabhat Mittal told BBC Hindi's Atul Chandra.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34276253


-- BBC 2015-09-18

[ExpatOilWorker]

Sound like the oil industry right now, except there are no jobs being offered!

[thaibeachlovers]

Could it be, just possibly, that India is overpopulated?

[futsukayoi]

It would also because everyone knows that Indian Public sector jobs are a cushy number with very good pay and perks (plus the chances for income from corruption). Full of highly paid positions for people with almost nothing to do. I would be willing to bet that there will be more than 368 senior people involved in these 10 boards for years doing the interviews so they can hardly be desperate for people. It ould be very easy to come up with criteria to whittle this down dramatically to the kind of applicants you want to hire, especially as the jobs will go to people with connections anyway.

[JakeSully]

Could it be, just possibly, that India is overpopulated?

Nope it's the whole world.

We are currently making a whole billion people every 12 years.

The highest population growth is currently in Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. India is way way down the list with a fertility rate of 1.26. They've already taken steps to curb it just like China.

[soomak]

Could it be, just possibly, that India is overpopulated?

Nope it's the whole world.

We are currently making a whole billion people every 12 years.

The highest population growth is currently in Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. India is way way down the list with a fertility rate of 1.26. They've already taken steps to curb it just like China.

Actually, the World bank, United Nations and the CIA estimate the fertility rate in India at between 2.3-2.5 per woman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate

India's population is still growing fast, and will continue to grow for the next 30-40 years at least (unless some natural disaster/world epidemic or another global catastrophy happens).

The highest fertility rates are in Africa, where some countries have a fertility rate of 5-6 children per woman.

Out of the top 30 countries, only one is not African (Iraq).

[shirtless]

They might as well sell lottery tickets for these positions.

[yankee99]

Could it be, just possibly, that India is overpopulated?

Nope it's the whole world.

We are currently making a whole billion people every 12 years.

The highest population growth is currently in Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. India is way way down the list with a fertility rate of 1.26. They've already taken steps to curb it just like China.

China is in the process of repealing some of these one baby laws

[tx22cb]

Why on earth would they interview every applicant? Or do the Govt regulations specify this?

[Charlie Croker]

The world is not overpopulated, in fact most western societies are facing and aging society. Where the ratio of old to young is becoming too low to support the care needs of the older generations.

India does have a large overpopulation issue however, and a mass of low skilled workers who can just about manage to ride a bike and add 2 and 2.

Government jobs are civil service positions with low prospects of improvement but no requirement to do much work.

[thaibeachlovers]

The world is not overpopulated, in fact most western societies are facing and aging society. Where the ratio of old to young is becoming too low to support the care needs of the older generations.

India does have a large overpopulation issue however, and a mass of low skilled workers who can just about manage to ride a bike and add 2 and 2.

Government jobs are civil service positions with low prospects of improvement but no requirement to do much work.

There is no need for the west to breed more people to look after the aged. In the unlikely event that they haven't invented care robots in the next ten years, they can just import some of the unlimited masses from countries that breed too many people to have jobs for, like the Phillipines.

[Sydebolle]

..... meanwhile in Thailand you cannot get any staff to do any kind of hospitality job.

Irrespective of salary they call for an appointment which they just don't attend to; if they do at least half of those OKed will not show up and the rest walks off the job the minute they are supposed to do some (previously explained and agreed upon) work.

To hire one Philippine citizen the quota reads 4 Thais while Burmese, Cambodians and Laotians do not require any quota. Once any of the latter is hired the Thai team in residence makes sure to get rid of the "alien".

Maybe time to move to India? Maybe wait for AEC2015 to kick in - most likely a non-event like the Y2K fairy tale.
Maybe not; maybe it's time to change the business focus on activities which do not require Thai labour - how sad!

[thaibeachlovers]

..... meanwhile in Thailand you cannot get any staff to do any kind of hospitality job.

Irrespective of salary they call for an appointment which they just don't attend to; if they do at least half of those OKed will not show up and the rest walks off the job the minute they are supposed to do some (previously explained and agreed upon) work.

To hire one Philippine citizen the quota reads 4 Thais while Burmese, Cambodians and Laotians do not require any quota. Once any of the latter is hired the Thai team in residence makes sure to get rid of the "alien".

Maybe time to move to India? Maybe wait for AEC2015 to kick in - most likely a non-event like the Y2K fairy tale.

Maybe not; maybe it's time to change the business focus on activities which do not require Thai labour - how sad!

Hmmmm. Strange then that the hotel industry is flourishing. Some staff at hotels I use have been there for years.

PS, why would they hire Phillipinos in Thailand? they can get all the labour they need from neigbouring countries.

[klauskunkel]

"These candidates only have to be interviewed but my estimate is that the entire process will take at least four years to complete even if there are 10 boards interviewing 200 candidates a day, for 25 days a month,"

Maybe you should make a new ad to hire a 1000 job interviewers...

[Usernames]

"These candidates only have to be interviewed but my estimate is that the entire process will take at least four years to complete even if there are 10 boards interviewing 200 candidates a day, for 25 days a month,"

Maybe you should make a new ad to hire a 1000 job interviewers...

The same 2 million would apply for those jobs and you would have to wait four years to interview the interviewers.

[DeaconJohn]

That sounds like the India that I first travelled through in the 1970s.

Plus ca change...

[TPI]

Could it be, just possibly, that India is overpopulated?

Nope it's the whole world.

We are currently making a whole billion people every 12 years.

The highest population growth is currently in Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. India is way way down the list with a fertility rate of 1.26. They've already taken steps to curb it just like China.

Actually, the World bank, United Nations and the CIA estimate the fertility rate in India at between 2.3-2.5 per woman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate

India's population is still growing fast, and will continue to grow for the next 30-40 years at least (unless some natural disaster/world epidemic or another global catastrophy happens).

The highest fertility rates are in Africa, where some countries have a fertility rate of 5-6 children per woman.

Out of the top 30 countries, only one is not African (Iraq).

There is an interesting TED that explains why people have many children, interesting that Bangladesh has a ratio of 2.3 children per family (average)

[Ulic]

The brass ring for many in India, a government job. Like winning a minor lottery.

[soomak]

Could it be, just possibly, that India is overpopulated?

Nope it's the whole world.

We are currently making a whole billion people every 12 years.

The highest population growth is currently in Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. India is way way down the list with a fertility rate of 1.26. They've already taken steps to curb it just like China.

Actually, the World bank, United Nations and the CIA estimate the fertility rate in India at between 2.3-2.5 per woman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate

India's population is still growing fast, and will continue to grow for the next 30-40 years at least (unless some natural disaster/world epidemic or another global catastrophy happens).

The highest fertility rates are in Africa, where some countries have a fertility rate of 5-6 children per woman.

Out of the top 30 countries, only one is not African (Iraq).

There is an interesting TED that explains why people have many children, interesting that Bangladesh has a ratio of 2.3 children per family (average)

Yes, it is an interesting subject, at least to nurds like me...

And luckily the birth rates are dropping all over the world.

The world's fertility rate is around 2.4-2.5 children per woman. It was 4.7 per woman in 1970. Amazing drop!

Thailand had a fertility rate of 5.6 per woman back in 1970.

Only 45 years later, its around 1.5-1.6 per woman.

Truly an amazing change within less than two generations.

[elgordo38]

For once I am astounded speechless and feel humble. Thank God/Budda that I was born in the dirty thirties.

[copa8]

The world is not overpopulated, in fact most western societies are facing and aging society. Where the ratio of old to young is becoming too low to support the care needs of the older generations.

India does have a large overpopulation issue however, and a mass of low skilled workers who can just about manage to ride a bike and add 2 and 2.

Government jobs are civil service positions with low prospects of improvement but no requirement to do much work.

There is no need for the west to breed more people to look after the aged. In the unlikely event that they haven't invented care robots in the next ten years, they can just import some of the unlimited masses from countries that breed too many people to have jobs for, like the Phillipines.

Philippines is ranked between 50s-60s on that list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate

Import heck of a lot more "unlimited masses from countries that breed too many people to have jobs for" in NIger, Somalia, Mali, Chad, Uganda...basically whole of Africa.