Fellow travellers on the Jubilee line in London may recall an ad campaign for a university last year. The ad read, “Think Different, Think Employability, Think xxx University”. The ad set me thinking.While considering a university degree if you are thinking employability are you really thinking different? I believe better copy for the ad would have been, “Think Different, Think Value Creation”.After you have got your university degree you think of a job, self-employment or…

My son is going on a school trip to France and since he holds an Indian passport he has to apply for Schengen visa. This morning we went to the company that processes Schengen visa applications.Although the experience was pleasant enough and fairly efficient it made me wonder how secure are the jobs of the people working in this company? How secure is the future of the company itself? Work they are doing – inspecting…