How Government jobs are differentiated from Private Sector jobs

Written by

BK Vijay

Writer at hyderabad-india-online.comwith support of Marvist Digital Marketing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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