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With the explosion of information technology in the last 2 decades of 20th century all industries have been impacted. IT industry provides career opportunities to thousands of young graduates. Engineering graduates with any specialization is recruited by IT companies.

In fact, during the 1997 to 2003, majority of graduates of BTech (Leather) from A C Tech joined IT industry  not showing any interest in offers from leather companies. Even though, this trend is not sustainable in the long terms, expectation and life style standards have gone up significantly.

It is not un-common to find fresh graduates offered higher salaries than experienced technicians. This trend has trickled to all levels down to workers. Many of the small and medium sized companies are in an unenviable position of having to compete for skilled operators and even for un-skilled workers. Neighboring companies offering competing salaries to a person is happening in leather industry too.

Companies offer transport facilities, lunch and better working conditions to attract workers. MD of one leading shoe companies mentioned that a group traveling in the same bus moved to a competitor unit en-masse. I am sure everyone will have similar tales to narrate.

How to attract, nurture and retain talent is the key to success of a modern enterprise in the coming years. This is applicable to leather industry also.

(to be continued)

We face so many issues in our day to day working life which we want to share, discuss with others. Some may require action by the industry as a whole. Some may require support of friends and colleagues.

This place is for sounding out our thoughts and share with others.