Scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market

Post by gilleain » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:31 PM UTC

thisisit wrote: post #13

Retric wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

India only has a 1.2% population growth rate including an aging population ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/254469/median-age-of-the... ) which is down from 2.2% in 1980 and well below it's ~7% GDP growth rate. They are simply dealing with the normal issues for a rapidly developing nation. Plus the new generation entering the work force is based on their population growth rate ~20 years ago.

I am not sure what is the data source on statista but the last census happened in 2011: http://www.simplydecoded.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TH01... The last decade was the only one where the population growth has slowed. And even then the growth was ~17% in 10 years.

Post by EliRivers » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:36 PM UTC

reallymental wrote: post #7

edited: Some grammatical errors. Great read, and full of issues that are discussed on HN everyday. Also, not a new topic, the call centers have been on the decline for long, and for good reasons. > -today, young people from agricultural castes want to work in offices and not farms. I wondered what other options were open to them. > Poojary read it out to me in his best American accent, which he had perfected by the e…

Post by ajeet_dhaliwal » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:42 PM UTC

em500 wrote: post #14

thisisit wrote: post #9

This is like the boiler room stuff from "Wolf of Wall Street". Unfortunately it is not reviled rather held in awe. One thing which is never talked about in these articles is the failure of Indian government (past and present) to find effective family planning policies. Population growth is through the roof and hence unemployment is huge. With not much left in terms of job prospects lot of people turn to shady stuff.…

> One thing which is never talked about in these articles is the failure of Indian government (past and present) to find effective family planning policies. Population growth is through the roof and hence unemployment is huge. Looking at the actual data https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... it's not clear that the government could have found more effective family planning policies, save for…

Post by valuearb » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:49 PM UTC

reallymental wrote: post #22

valuearb wrote: post #12

Reminded me we hired an indian android developer (contractor) through a phone interview (in US). When “he” showed up for work, it wasn’t him. The contractor who actually showed up couldn’t answer the same questions.

Oh the old bait and switch works very well for telephone interviews. Remove them ideally. Perhaps a solution to this could be to give the interviewee something that only he can give the interviewer back when they meet. Something that the interviewee cannot pass onto the 'real' candidate who will appear on the first day. On the other hand, fining the real candidate is the worst way possible, it has to be better than t…

Post by reallymental » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:54 PM UTC

EliRivers wrote: post #23

reallymental wrote: post #7

edited: Some grammatical errors. Great read, and full of issues that are discussed on HN everyday. Also, not a new topic, the call centers have been on the decline for long, and for good reasons. > -today, young people from agricultural castes want to work in offices and not farms. I wondered what other options were open to them. > Poojary read it out to me in his best American accent, which he had perfected by the e…

the British choose to chew their crap food What, you don't like curry? :) (cue "no true Scotsman" vis-a-vis UK curry!)