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Career And Placement Consultant - Answered on Aug 14, 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
Asif Question by Asif on Sep 08, 2023Hindi
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Hii sir, I am 43 year. I jobless since last 5years . I have experience in manufacturing industry like Tata motors and Mahindra over 13 years of experience I want to start my business no Idea. please suggest a profitable business . please suggest me best jobs or business I will do.i am in trouble not getting even a dicision. Needed your reference ,help, support to do. Please do the needful for

Ans: Dear Mr. Asif, As you had worked for two good automobile companies in their mfg units , your experience will be useful for any other automobile company however as you are not in job for the past 5 yrs , Many companies don't prefer candidates who are not in job hence to get a job in Company may not be easy but your experience will support you to get into good automobile dealerships in their service deptt. Starting a new business is risky and requires huge fund. In case you are so interested , you may start a service centre for vehicles of your domain.
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for past 19 years i am working in a manufacturing company namely Tinplate company of india limited jamshedpur as mechanical engineer i want to do some buniness so that i have some monetory stability and extra income as you know today no one job is fixed forever pl suggest some small business for me so that after i loose my job i can sustain some income
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First and foremost, pl check if your current employer permits moonlighting or having another job even if it is freelance/ gig work. Many companies can take stringent action in this regard.
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If you are in doubt, then it's highly likely that he is putting on an act. Go with your intuition and hey hey, you said that he is married and so are you...You do realize that you just can't go ahead and marry while you are already to other people, right?
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