Increasing interest towards Government Jobs

There have been revolutionary shifts in pattern of various entrance exams in India in recent times. These Include Highly In-Demand Bank exams, MBA entrance exams such as CAT exam and other government jobs exams. The organizing committees of these exams are now focusing on more aptitude-based testing rather than subjective approach which used to be the traditional way of assessing candidates.

The major reasons of these changes include increase in competition and high level of analytical abilities required by organizations these days. This is obvious due to increasing complexities and challenges that are present in every work field these days, Thus employees need to think faster and more accurately. This has forced the employers to rethink about the selection process to enable them to extract the best and most suitable people to do the job.

Due to current turbulence scenario across the world economies, people are inclining more towards the government jobs sector which provide them with satisfaction and security. Currently deployed pay-commissions are also playing significant role in increasing inclination of young people towards these jobs. This has caused the competition among the young people aspiring for these jobs.

Keeping in mind the above factors, the organizing committees have designed the testing strategies in such a way so that most of the people that currently don’t fit in the requirements are filtered out in the first phase itself, which is the written test. This phase makes sure that only the capable people that may fit in the job are coming for the interview. The nest phase, Interview is the decider among those few written qualifiers.

The bank exams have been very much in-Demand recently due to the fact that they provide satisfaction and security that people are craving for these days. Also, there have been salary hikes in banks through various pay-commissions. This explosion competition in bank exams has made the banks to face a lot of faces of handling the whole process involving correct registration, issuing of call letters and most of all, checking the sheets and issuing results on timely basis due to so many other responsibilities on banks. Thus government has now centralized the written exams of all mainstream public sector banks in one exam called IBPS CWE exam. Now, the banks do not have to worry about managing the written phases of their recruitment drives and candidates will get results on timely basis.

Like bank exams, many other exams also have changed their testing strategies lie Civil service exam opting for a Common Civil Service Aptitude Test (Called CSAT). This has eliminated the Preliminary phase in this exam. Also CAT exam has gone online now to account for large number of participants. Thus, major competitive entrance exams in India are now on a verge of change.