Autors: Svetlana Soloha
Some of us can find a job easily, but some meets a lot of difficulties
on the way to find a job. I’ll try to explain why it’s so.
There are a lot of requirements you must respond to be
the best for an employer. Here are some of them:
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the experience of the
concrete job and the experience in the whole working life;
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the quality of the doing
job;
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age;
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sex;
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education;
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health;
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amount of money you want to
earn;
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it’s may be a little bit
strange, but even nationality.
All these things are the whole and its completeness in
ideal for the different kinds of job, mostly – employers, is the best for every
potential employee.
Let’s start
discuss the ageism problem. For example you can become a ship captain not
earlier you are forty or you probably won’t find a secretary place if you are
older than forty. These two examples are clear because for becoming a captain
you must go through the real course of the life in the see and that takes a lot
of years. Concerning a secretary – there are two qualifications of secretary, I
mean ether employer wants a secretary-waitress or real office lady. If employer
wants a secretary-waitress she may be only pretty and young. But if employer
needs an real office lady for keeping in order an control whole his business it
doesn’t matter how old or how young secretary is, the most important – the
concrete job experience and quality.
But if we are
talking about ageism problem in generous than it’s very difficult to find
almost any kind of job if you are very young or very old. The golden middle for
becoming an employee is approximately from twenty till forty. If you’re in this
golden middle it’s ok but not enough.
This isn’t a
problem for older people to work in civil countries – most of them doesn’t have
to work at all because government and society pays them enough for having a
rest after their labour life, but Latvian pensioners cannot allow such kind of
pastime.
Than there is
problem to find a leading job for a young people. Of course it’s understandable
– young person don’t have enough experience, only potential.
Than there is a
sexism problem. It does no matter we are a living in the century of
emancipation all the same there still exists a women discrimination problem for
the leading job. It’s because of business world stereotype that the woman’s
place is in the hose to keep it and to nurse children, also because there was a
patriarchy through the thousand of years. I don’t mention the first kind of
government was a matrerchy. It’s still a little bit strangely to see a woman as
a director or as a president not only of company.
Except career all
of us has the personal life. If the male can combine them more easily, than for
the female it’s more difficult. Not all of the employers will keep a vacancy
for a woman during and after decree. So, if an employer didn’t keep a vacancy
or the contract wasn’t signed, the woman has to find another job, and it’s
always more difficult to find a new job than to keep the present one.
Without that
there is a stereotype of what sex – male or female – is suitable for one or
another kind of profession. For example the most common stereotypes are the
secretary and the sales manager. It’s very seldom when a male is a secretary
and a female – a sales manager. But we can avoid this problem very easily
during the study. I mean we know what kind of the stereotype is current, so
everybody is able to decide who he or she wants to become.
There is two
major nationalities in Latvia – Russians and Latvians. Despite people of these
nationalities has one colour of skin and through the centuries were neighbours
they all the time trying to compete each other, besides as possible harder and
dirty. That’s way Russian employer wants Russian employee to make his
nationality environment and vice versa. Such problem exists not only in Latvia
where it has a politically historical basis. It is over the word where it may
have religious, political, historical, ethnical bases. The biggest such kind of
discrimination is racism. May be it’s not very actual in Latvia nowadays, but
it will when Latvia becomes European Union member. Of course is the person is a
cosmopolite there is for one such kind of problem less.
The most of
employers requires the presence of education from a potential employee. The
point is the employer wants you to know exactly what you are going to do. Of
course a diploma doesn’t show haw a potential employee will work, but it’s
showing how he or she might work. That is way very important get A’s while
you’re studding. This is very important especially when you don’t have an
experience.
The real problem
for Latvian students to find a qualified job abroad ( in the USA and Europe).
Unfortunately almost all of Latvian
diplomas are ineffective there. But this is more government problem than
our student’s. However it might serve as a stimulus to improve not only other’s
countries opinion, but an education system in whole in Fatherland.
An experience is the most important for employer. It’s
the experienced knowledge of doing work. It means less had aches for an employer, I mean an employer can be
safer about the quality of doing job. But be ready – an employer will ask for a
work-record book and if you were changing work places to often you most
probably won’t get it. Employers are looking for the permanent employees. It’s understandable – the human
nature doesn’t like to change habits, except when it’s necessary.
Concerning experience – here is the problem finding a
job for younger people just after graduation. Nobody wants to waste time for
employee’s studding everybody want to have an experienced one. But in every
minus is a plus, I mean in every negative thing always is a positive one.
Inexperienced employee always is less paid. There always exist circumstances
beyond our control. So it’s depends what kind of employee needs an employer
either he wants a qualified employee or a less paid one. Each young person
after graduation for getting such an important thing as an experience has to
understand that for the first time won’t earn a huge amount of money –
experience getting is some kind of education or the life course for witch you
must pay too.
But there sill exist and always will professions which
don’t need any experience, education, doesn’t matter either you’re male or
female. Such professions are very low paid. But all of the employers needs the
healthy employees. So handicaps or people with some kind of more complained
chronicle diseases but with ability to work and clearly think are one of them
who mostly cannot find a job. That is the whale society problem and society
must be responsible and helpful for these people, the society must care about
them. However in the civil countries these people don’t feel forgotten Latvian
handicaps unfortunately will wait this careens till the rest of their
life.
Than there still exist the problem of the narrow
specialisation. As an example I’d like to mention a post USSR problem in
finding a job. As you know the post USSR government politic was to develop and
make strong its military. So there was a huge number of institutes where were
prepared engineers, constructors, servicemen for working in military and for
its developing and improvement. When in 1990 the USSR disintegrate and Latvia
became an independent Republic, a lot of people who worked in this field lost
their jobs, because Latvia doesn’t have a developed military field and won’t
have for a long time. These great engineers and constructors have to work on
less prestige places, some of them doesn’t work at all.
Without above-mentioned problem there were a lot of
specific plants in post USSR on Latvia territory where worked a lot of people.
The most of them got closed, because government
wasn’t able to finance them, so these people with specific professions
lost their jobs. Again the same problem – for the most part of these people
it’s to late to restudy.
Everybody knows current problems in finding a suitable
job, so young people must think about who they want to be while studying in
school and if the profession they chose will be demanded.
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