Coronavirus bites the job letter

About three months back, most Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institutes of Technology—the country’s premier management and engineering schools, respectively—had completed their campus recruitment process. Placement cells were happy to see a healthy number of job offers even in a sluggish economy. News publications were flush with headlines about 100% placements and record salaries. All was well with the world.

But three months seems like a lifetime ago. Over the weeks that followed, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe and pushed the world economy into a tailspin. In April, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its global GDP growth …

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Pradip K. Saha

Pradip is a co-founder at The Morning Context and leads our newsletters vertical. He has previously worked at The Ken as a staff writer, at Mint as an assistant features editor and the Deccan Chronicle as a copy editor. He works with a slew of expert newsletter writers across subjects and domains. His own writing spans the gig economy, farmers caught in the crossfire of technology, global warming and parents trapped in the edtech wave. Some of his best stories have come at the intersection of technology and human endeavour.

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