Movement of Post-Graduate Dairy Professionals in Western India:A Career Path Analysis

Most of the dairy professionals join employment after obtaining their degrees. Most of them join the dairy sector either in cooperatives, government or multinationals. After post-graduation, some join co-operative dairy and few of them opt for higher study. Some of them go abroad for job. Few of them change their sector altogether. It is necessary to know trend of movement of dairy professionals with reasons thereof from Human Resource Development (HRD) point of view. The current study was undertaken to obtain the information about movement of dairy professionals (post graduates)/ identifying the most preferred sector/region and reasons thereof. It was found that after passing B.Tech. Degree till admissioninPG, considerable respondents (16%) had done job in co-operative dairy. After completing master degree, considerable respondents (52%) had job in co-operative dairy, 22% had job in private sector and 10% had job in government sector. Majority respondents (78%) had not changed job, 18% had changed job two times and only 4% had changed career more than 2 times. Majority respondents (74%) had got job through college placement cell, 18% had got by applying through open advertisement and only 6% had got job through website/ online advertisement. Considerable respondents (46%) had joined first job/ changed career because of possibility of higher professional growth, 12% had changed career due to attractive salary package and 10% had changed due to nearness to residence. Out of 9 respondents that had changed career two times, 33% respondents had changed second career because of possibility of higher professional growth, 33% had reason of good work location from socio-economic view, 11 % had reason of higher study and 22% had other reasons.