Dear Friends
I am not sure if you experienced this or not, every week we used to wait for Employment News, the flagship journal for job seekers, published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. It started in 1976, used to be referred to as Employment News in English and Hindi (Rozgar Samachar).
I come from a small town named Vizianagaram. It has a fort built by the Maharajas. Besides, there used to be a Pani Puri Chat shop. It was an interesting business model. This guy, named Nagabhushanam, used to paste all employment-related information on a wall. It was not just posters pasted, but he used to run like a mini staffing agency (printed applications, postal cover with target address pasted, photocopy facility, and other key ready-reckoners for a particular job application). All these unemployed aspirants used to apply through the corner and also have a pani puri!! A perfect blend of a business model.
While I am talking about the Pani Puri cart, it reminds me of an Insta post yesterday by Startup Pedia — “At just 22, Nandan turned a ‘weekend cart’ into a ₹3–4 lakh/month streetwear brand in Bangalore. Untamed Streetwear isn’t just clothes — it’s his vision, his vibe, and a growing cultural hub for streetwear lovers.” It is a cart-based fashion startup bringing bold, affordable streetwear to Indian streets.
Anyway, let me come to the topic of today’s story. I used to follow the India Post (those days it was the Indian Postal Service) Assistants. Now they are calling it Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS). It was purely based on 10th Class merit. The expected cutoff is 84 to 95% in the 10th class. I was eligible for this; I used to contemplate applying for this. When IT recruitments began, we used to closely monitor them in the national newspapers; of course, there were a few. They used to run mostly by referral, or you needed to follow them in Bangalore/Hyderabad. Of course, we needed to stand in a long queue to hand over our resume — only to the “Security Guard” during weekends. In rare instances, we used to mail to HRs. Employment News used to be limited to jobs like Computer Operator, Computer Operator (Steno), Computer Operator (Accounts), etc.
From that phase, we transitioned to AI-driven Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). They intelligently screen resumes, match candidates to jobs, reduce bias, and improve the overall candidate experience. In this chaos, yesterday I saw an interesting hiring post on LinkedIn. I am sharing an excerpt of it.
“Meet my all-star team. Time to level up with some fresh talent – because even AIs need humans to hit the ‘deploy’ button without existential dread.
Shoutout to the current squad: ChatGPT: Chief Content Officer,Perplexity: Chief Research Officer,Gamma: Deck Designer,Midjourney: Creative Director,Canva: Carousel Designer,
Veo: Video Editor,Veo 3: Video Maker,Genspark AI: Prompt Engineer,EasyGen: Copywriter.
Now, hiring for open roles: Chief Product Officer (CPO), Chief Software Architect, Coding Engineers: Code like a boss, debug like a therapist, Agentic Expert, Integration Experts. My biggest HR challenge? Keeping these agents from unionizing over server space… and now convincing humans we’re not replacing them.”
Are you ready for the transition?
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