Over the last few weeks, I
have had opportunity to interview prospective Project management firms for some
of the projects I handle. Part of the interview involved assessing or rather
getting to know the prospective team members the Project Management firms
propose to allocate for the projects. During one such interview, I came in
contact with team members who were perfectly marketing themselves. Not to
forget the fact that these team members were ably supported by the Directors.
Nothing bad in this; except for the interesting fact that the team members had
been in Australia for only a couple of months, having been transferred
internally from UK.
The team members made a
small little print out of the presentation, as part of the impression process. One
particular slide said we are proud to bring in International experience to
Australia and specifically for the projects we were discussing. The irony for
me was that all the companies that I was interviewing were the same ones who
had rejected my applications in one way or the other for the so called ‘lack of
local experience’. But then here I was witnessing an altogether different
perspective of the firms to an individual who was from the Queen’s country. It didn’t
matter about the experience the individual had, all it took for people to look
at was his mere nationality and the ability to add “Pluff” to the constant
artificially created conversations, with no REAL content.
Moral of the story was that –
In Australia, only ‘UK” experience is being considered as International
experience and the remaining of the “International” experience is considered as
ZERO experience.
What a feeling indeed! I was
broken to the core at this reality.
Post Script: Somebody is
gonna hit really hard J
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