GLOBALIZATION AND CHALLENGES IN CAREER GUIDANCE
Dr. D. Dutta Roy Psychology Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203, B. T. Road Kolkata – 700 108 Respected Rotarian Professor R.J. Pande, Rotarian Mr. Partha Mukhopadhyay, Rotarian Mr. Das and other office bearers of Rotary club, the invited students, I wish you all first “ A very Happy New Year”. In this year, I am going to present one of the most complex issue of career guidance that I conceptualised recently. What do you want to be in future ? The most difficult question in today’s world of globalisation as labour market is expanding from local to domestic, domestic to international and from international to trans-national. Dual labour economy is reducing, a large increase in the relative size of immigrant workforce, growing prevalence of non standardized work arrangements and rapid job restructuring. Due to rapid job restructuring, most of the today’s job does not exist when we were young. No one can predict the future with certainty. But this globalisation should not be co