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Career And Placement Consultant - Answered on Aug 02, 2024

Pradeep Pramanik is a career coach, placement consultant and director at Fast Track Career Consultants, which provides career counselling, soft skills training and placement consultancy services.
Pradeep, who hails from Bhagalpur in Bihar, has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 15 years in sales, marketing, training and product management roles in companies like Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Elder Pharmaceuticals and Ranbaxy Laboratories.
During his tenure in the pharma industry, he has worked in different states including Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
In 1998, he launched Fast Track Career Consultants with the aim of helping youngsters find jobs through the right career counselling, training and placement services.
They also offer HR analysis and appraisal services.
Over the years, he has been invited by management and engineering institutions to discuss education and employment policies, entrepreneurship, soft skills and emerging careers in India.
He has published four books on career counselling and contributed articles to print publications.... more

Asked by Anonymous - Aug 02, 2024Hindi

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Hi Sir, I am 45 years of age. I have done my MBA in marketing and systems(2001) and diploma in web centric technology i. I have worked in Pharma sector for 14 years in sales. Post that i worked as sales manger& Purchase manager in a hospital. Later for 5 years i was doing my own business. Currently i am working as Operations Manager in an IT startup. I am also given a supervisory role as testing team supervisor due to some knowledge of software testing. Please suggest a skill which i should learn for good earning which should be relevant for next 10-20 years. I am ready to learn and i am quick learner. Please suggest skills where i can do free lancing as i do not wish to do job any more.

Ans: Dear Friend , Many like you suffer from mid career crisis due to various avoidable or unavoidable reasons . since you have spent good Number of Years In pharma and hospital sectors , both having rewarding job prospects , I wish , you get back to pharma or hospital sector as a Sr manager . Only thing I wish to suggest , you prefer an established house rather than start ups at this age. IT start ups can be risky option. Getting back to sales and administration or Purchase in pharma will be easy . Acquiring New skills sets or doing new courses in logistics /purchase or inventory management could be ok, provided you can wait for your new job. Thanks

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