Jobs, placements, internships, freelancing – let’s talk work

Dear Reader,

The education news portal of Careers360 – news.careers360.com – is growing. You will find comprehensive coverage of the most important developments here. Education policy, student lives and campus activities, the latest updates on examinations – it’s all here.

Just before the pandemic, we launched The Workplace , a platform for young people just starting off their careers to share their experiences, dilemmas, setbacks, and anxieties – and the response has been overwhelming.

Young professionals have shared their experiences of finding internship opportunities that became full-time jobs, moving to a metropolitan city for the first time for work, and feeling underpaid and overworked in their jobs; interns with All Indian Council for Technical Education relayed their experience of learning through AICTE internships; finally, experts have written about what makes their own fields of work exciting and explained why training certain disciplines is in high demand .

The Workplace also includes detailed and insightful reportage on the lives and struggles of those just starting out. Beyond detailed placement analyses , our reports look at how students struggle to find work , mental health issues, the opening of new employment avenues and new types of jobs , online skilling and recruitment scams and the daunting negotiation of gender roles at the workplace. In a post-pandemic world where a ‘work-from-home’ setup is the new order, we have also shed light on how the newly-employed are coping with it and how technology is playing a key role in shaping their future endeavours.

We invite readers to write to tell us about their own experiences at the email address given below. We will publish a selection of these notes on the website. We promise to use what you share with us responsibly – we will leave names out, if you so wish, and change all identifying details. For details on word-count, publication policy and more, please refer to our submission guidelines, also linked below.

• Email: theworkplace@careers360.com
• Read: Submission guidelines