Public Sector being a Guarantor of Job Security is a Myth

Public Sector: As the name comes in mind one must be happy but at the same time be very very very cautious.

Have you ever seen a duck, how smooth it looks swimming in the lake? But the reality is tremendous amounts of cycles of paddling it does inside the water, which is not visible. Government sector job can be taken by those who are judged by their attitude and character at the time of interview. People lie so much of not able to compete in exams and interviews. But sometimes, its the MAN who takes above the BRAIN at the time of employment.

They do NOT need people who say, I will do anything to get this job. Because they know later it will be trouble. Character, Sound Judgement, Self-Belief, Truthfulness, Innovative Ideology, Clear Mindset, Confidence (self NOT jealousy) are the common personal traits what attracts the interviewer in government jobs.

So many people are seen competing blindly with others, which is fatal for their own existence. As a young job enthusiast, one must remain positive, hopeful and persistent in efforts towards job hunting.

A target well set in time, and with the optimum efforts, right candidate can land for the job of his dreams.

Freshers are some times confused in career choosing, go for pvt or govt? It comes from the desire, how you imagine yourself working after five or ten years in life.

One may concentrate on his professional skills and then decide which way to go, private or government.

There are ample of opportunities in the market, and truly speaking, those who have the steel nerves of rising up the ladder of professional life, nothing STOP them.

The career does not begin with how you get a start, but how you see yourself, putting the efforts and still keeping the momentum alive to sail ahead and reach your target goals.

Patience, Tolerance, Continuous efforts, and self-belief. Do these words attract you? Have a better time anywhere private or govt, the pool is waiting for the dolphins.

Hey guys,

I have both experiences. If you ask my suggestion, I feel private sector is far better than public sector. If you have a mind set up wherein you don't have any dreams regarding your career, just want to run your day to day life like how your forefathers led (Daily go to office, save major portion of your salary, keep it in bank deposits & finally after retirement leave the hard earned money to your children for their enjoyment) then Public sector is like a boon for you people.

At present am working in public sector company, in my previous employment I worked for an MNC. You know when I joined MNC I didn't know how to speak english, I didn't know what is professionalism, I didn't know what the current business environment is. I will tell u, don't go by comforts. If these public sectors gets privatized, then your life becomes miserable. I won't be in a position to work in a private company. Public sectors make you lazy, they will wipe out all your knowledge, they will make you to act like a Sarkari Babu.

Hi Friends.

According to my opinion public sector job is more better to private sector. Because I m also employee of private sector. In private job we have no time for our family. No any proper job time then you can say sometime 10 to 12 hour daily work. So that create lots of health problems like mental pressure, blood pressure, tension etc. I wanna say to you money is not important than our health & our life. So public sector is better compare to private sector. Less tension, less problems.

Thank you.

No. "Public sector is a Guarantor of Job" is not a myth, but not 100% true as well. May be 90% secure.

Now-a-days Public sector companies like SAIL, NTPC, SBI, UPSC, SSC or any other Government jobs are not anymore for lazy people. Someone need to work hard and even need to perform well in the organization, if he/she got the job. And if he/she can't perform as per the expectations, the higher officials arrange his/her transfer to some unknown place and even sometimes suspend him/her.

And, whatever, most of the growth & development of any country come from PVT sectors, not from public sectors. But, that doesn't mean that government organizations are anyway behind any pvt. Org. Just take the example of NASA.

Also, I am not agree with the people saying that, government People are lazy and they do very less work. Just visit any SBI and look how much work they do. They shut down all the transactions for public at 5 pm, but they continue to work till late, or else fine gets imposed on them. All the PSUs are now paying as per performance. So, there is a heavy stress also on Public sector workers.

I do work on the Regional Transport Office as a Clerk. And it does have too much workload. We do work till 8 pm in night (at least) , sometimes more than 8 pm. The RTO officer also sometimes scold us, just because he gets into tension by the workload.

By the way, we get almost all the government Holidays and Sundays, which are good.

I agree with that, no officer or boss can stop the monthly salary unlike a Pvt. Org wherein the boss control everything.

Security, we are talking about. The first thing strikes is that anyone can give the security for Life?

Coming back to the main topic, here corruption, stress, security everything goes hand in hand though its a public or private sector. Of course entrance for public sector job is tough because of the competition and unfair practices. For private sector you need to work hard more and more with keeping patience.

Being a common man and moreover from OPEN category (no offence on any other category) for me private sector provides bread and butter according to my knowledge and talent. I agree that there is much stress, but it is at every place, so we need to work on that rather than blaming it.

I always believe that there is one opportunity available in the market which we need to grab. Obviously competition is high but if you work hard it will gives you good return, may be in long term.

So I conclude from my end that Private sector will be a bet than public for me.

Public sector is indeed a job security for the Indian people. The so called sarkari seva will always attract the junta because of money and less work involved in it. People tend to misunderstand the whole motive of public sector and think it as an ordinary job. But the case is different here. The prime motive of public sector is to make India self sufficient in all front and the employees are expected to be people of highest character in the service of the nation. But now a days corruption in services has made this sector a money minting machine. Job security is indeed there in public sector in dealing with strategic areas.

As per my knowledge both sector have the same type of work but there is only slight difference only in the field of work pressure only. On organisations will give us salaries without doing work if we love the work what ever we have given it will give pleasure to us the promotion all are available in private sector also one more thing in private sector even though after our retirement they will use our for the development of organisation.

Hi friends.

In my view public sector is better than private sector because there is job security. Not only job security, the competition is also less in public sector. Due to this the people working in public sector have less stress than people working in private sector.

The working hours are fixed in public sector but in private sector they don't have fixed working hours. Stress is more in private sector. Job security is not there in private sector.

Thank you.

Well said by every one. I really appreciate. Taking the reference from my friends I would like to contribute some more points regarding this topic. Of course there is a job security in govt sector. Should this job security be given to them after knowing the fact that people after getting a job in govt sector becomes Corrupted.

People do not do their job with honesty because they know that their job is secure. No body is going to harm their job. Now a days it is seen that in most of the govt sector job holders do their job after taking a bribe from common people take an exp of education system in govt schools, there are teachers but they don't do their job with honesty. In bank, in court in every sector you will see this. Who is responsible for this. Common people, govt employee, or our administration.

Think over it. All I can say, administration is responsible for such illegal activities. So administration should take a strict against corrupted people of govt sector.

You may put long leave to your PSU/PSC job and can work for your desired company in private sector for 2 to 5 years in India or out of India by taking prior permission and by following the norms of PSU/PSC's and after the leave you can rejoin in your services which doesn't costs you in the loss of Seniority among your colleagues except slight difference in the salaries.

If you start your career as a private employee, after getting dissatisfaction on it, it will be little hard to get the job in govt sector as you might have deviated from the core subject.

You should compete with people who are already taking coaching for PSU's and even with newly passed out candidates, who will be in lakhs.

You should satisfy with the starting salary in govt job which will be less than your present private job salary. The same job experience in govt might have offered you higher salary.

Think about your position at the age of 45 or 50. Can you really compete with the youngsters in private company which can no longer shows interest in you at that age?

Govt job has lot of offers and opportunities to benefit you and your family. You can take study leave even getting paid half of your salary.