How Government jobs are differentiated from Private Sector jobs

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.

After many failure attempts for Government sector jobs, some individuals come to private sector but still seeking same relaxed and congenial working style. As most of these high-end jobs are meant to be innovative at least to some extent, and demand competence & hard work, these people feel difficult to cope up with the challenging work environment and fail to perform as expected by the company.

Performance has direct impact on compensation:

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Courtesy: BK Vijay

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