Many of the graduates and post-graduates get really confused once they come out of the college, whether to apply for life style oriented private jobs or stable & comfortable government opportunities.

1. How Government jobs are differentiated
from Private Sector jobs
Written by
BK Vijay
Writer at hyderabad-india-online.com
with support of Marvist Digital Marketing

2. Many of the graduates and post-graduates get really confused once they
come out of the college, whether to apply for life style oriented private jobs
or stable & comfortable government opportunities. Well, that is what most of
the people think about private and public sector jobs right now when they
consider and compare private and government jobs. Some people have
passion to work in competitive surroundings and like to have challenges each
& every day while others feel comfortable working in less creative
environments.

3. If you are a person who had a career three to four decades back, then you
would definitely disagree with the benefits of private sector because there
were far less professional private sector companies present that time. But
today, things have completely changed as more and more people are focusing
on aggressive and energetic work environments where the professional
growth is faster. Government jobs generally focus on addressing basic needs
policy, utilities, basic citizen services like passport, ration cards etc. They also
focus on tax collections etc. However, private sector jobs are opportunity
oriented. For instance: there was no ministry for IT when IT industry was
founded.
To be clear on this topic, let us discuss what makes private sectors more
interesting than government jobs.

4. Private jobs are not meant for everyone especially not for comfort seeking
professionals:
It's really not easy for a highly potential person to survive and perform in a
place where the environment is relaxed and less challenging like in most
government jobs. Even though some people are motivated to work sincerely
in government jobs, their efforts will gradually become ineffective because of
less co-operation at the workplace. May be due to this reason, today many
public sector organizations have turned out to be less efficient and poor
performing institutions. Similarly, a person with comfort seeking mind-set
feels very inconvenient to work in dynamic and target-driven private sector
opportunities especially in service based industries.

5. Performance has direct impact on compensation:
Unlike the Government jobs where the compensation is stable irrespective of
the performance, the income in private jobs solely depend on the
competence. Those who are highly skilled and competent enough to excel in
the jobs have higher probability of getting good compensation than those
who are unqualified and have lower ability to perform. Most of the private
sector firms make sure the compensation is aligned with the performance
otherwise there is a chance of employee getting demotivated for not
recognizing his/her efforts.

6. Performance driven Vs Stability
Many private sector jobs are posh involving working with refined customers
and colleagues, unlike in government where employees deal with all kinds of
people. Also, there is a selective performance in government jobs where only
few government VIPs or influential people are taken care which will not
happen in private sector. Feedback is collected and then explanations are
asked if same thing is done in private sector.
While some people may join the government sector for serving the country
and make a difference. For a vast majority of applicants to the government
job, the charm is a stable and comfortable lifetime job. It’s also not easy to
get into a government job, as there is a lot of competition and getting
through it is very difficult.

7. However, this is seen only as a temporary challenge and many job seekers get
a lot of support from their family as they try for years to obtain a government
job. In some areas and families, a government job also ensures a good
marriage match.
Private sector jobs are quite contrary, as there is a demand for performance
and at same time, there is reward for performance. It encourages innovation,
doing creative work, allowing expression of ideas into action, an enabling and
achievement oriented environment giving great satisfaction from doing high
quality work.

8. Many people do not realize the disadvantages of government jobs
For some reason, many people do not realize the disadvantages of working in
a government job, and somehow try to get into it even if it is way below their
qualification level. As we see, now-a-days even people with PG degrees are
applying for government posts requiring intermediate qualification. Once
people get into government jobs they keep on changing their offices, work
environment and colleagues as they get transfer to different locations very
often. Sometimes they may have to work in remote locations even if it is not
comfortable for their families. As far as private jobs are concerned, they are
mostly in cities, and there is no need to worry about getting transferred to
remote locations.

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