The modern-day corporate India is mostly dominated by private sector firms. This is backed by the fact that India’s number of private sector firms has increased almost a hundredfold in the last two decades. The biggest reason behind this is the increase in the number of job seekers in the market.
With more job opportunities generated in India’s corporate sector by private firms, the frequency of job change has also increased. If you go to the time of 1990s and early 2000s, you will realize during that time people used to stay in one job for a long period of time, and even till retirement. There were two reasons for this. One was most of the people were employed in public sector firms and they were not interested to leave it. And the second reason was the lack of job opportunities. However, this has changed now and job seekers switch from one job to another based on their needs and desires.
Now, let’s throw some light on the reasons or the mindset behind switching from one job to another.
Majorly there are two reasons why people change their jobs. The first reason is that the person who is looking for a job change wants to leave his current job/company, and the second reason is the person who is looking for a job change wants to get a new job/wants to join a new firm. Both these reasons might sound similar, but they are different from each other.
The difference between these two can be clearly understood when you prepare job search strategies. When your objective is to leave the current job or the current company, you would do anything to get rid of it. You would not think much about the parameters related to a job, like a salary package, type of work, company, location, and so on. This only happens because you are not happy with your current situation and you want to leave it immediately. In some cases, people leave their current job even before getting a new job. The decision-making you do with this objective is short-term decision-making.
For jobseekers whose objective is to get a new job or they want to join a new firm, their job search strategies are properly devised and then executed. Such strategies take more time than the first objective strategies to get you a new job. However, the idea is to accomplish the objective. So time duration should never be a matter of concern. The decision-making done in this case is long-term decision making, where your goal is long-term oriented and you try to achieve that. In such cases even if the job seeker is upset with their current situation, he/she will wait for their desired opportunity and then grab it.
People often ask this question, why it is important to understand the mindset behind switching from one job to the other. The answer to this question is very simple. This understanding helps plan the job strategies and then gives direction to prepare for the interviews as well.
So to get the job search strategies on point and to prepare for the job interviews, it is of utmost importance that you understand the mindset behind you looking to change your job. Doing this will make the process smooth and simple.