The Educated Class, Out Of Job
It’s been a while since I have been observing the well educated, qualified youth rendered as being jobless in today’s job market. It is the sad truth that today’s job market does not offer jobs to all those who pass out with fancy degrees.
There are times when young job aspirants are not even aware of their goals and ambitions. At times they aimlessly wander from one company to the other with their resume and hope to get a swanky, comfortable and reputed position is a decently large organization.
Most of the young generation enroll for graduate degrees and higher education degrees after checking the reputation and past records for campus placements of the said institutions.
It holds true that parents also are of the same opinion, that if the college gives placements then it is the best place for education for their child for the next 2 to 3 years.
Does that mean that only an institute offering placements should be selected for diploma/ degree courses? Does it mean that the records of placement are directly proportional to the education quality which is offered at the college? Does that also mean that pupils who pass out from colleges not offering placement or pupils who do not get placed through colleges, will find it difficult to get a job?
Many other questions, like the above, constantly haunt our society, particularly the young fellows, currently.
Another dimension to this is when the well-qualified engineers, doctors, teachers, journalists, artists, etc. compromise on their dream job and get into a profession that does not match their education and their liking. Yes, that is also another bitter reality. Our education system produces more than our job market can absorb and digest.
There are a handful of candidates who get the right job for which they are qualified. One reason seen behind the qualification-job misfit is the lack of skills. Although the degree is cleared, it is merely a stamped sheet of paper.
Learning and skilling the students who will be a part of the job market in the future is not really a firm and foremost objective for most colleges. Education is a business for those who sell it and a commodity for those who buy it.
To make the candidate profile’s suit job requirements a lot more practical examples, cases, group discussions, interactive teaching methodology needs to be incorporated into the teaching world. The word should be ‘facilitation’ of the learner in a learning environment.
In the long run, only those who continuously learn and upskill themselves will sail in turbulent waters.
There are times when young job aspirants are not even aware of their goals and ambitions. At times they aimlessly wander from one company to the other with their resume and hope to get a swanky, comfortable and reputed position is a decently large organization.
Most of the young generation enroll for graduate degrees and higher education degrees after checking the reputation and past records for campus placements of the said institutions.
It holds true that parents also are of the same opinion, that if the college gives placements then it is the best place for education for their child for the next 2 to 3 years.
Does that mean that only an institute offering placements should be selected for diploma/ degree courses? Does it mean that the records of placement are directly proportional to the education quality which is offered at the college? Does that also mean that pupils who pass out from colleges not offering placement or pupils who do not get placed through colleges, will find it difficult to get a job?
Many other questions, like the above, constantly haunt our society, particularly the young fellows, currently.
Another dimension to this is when the well-qualified engineers, doctors, teachers, journalists, artists, etc. compromise on their dream job and get into a profession that does not match their education and their liking. Yes, that is also another bitter reality. Our education system produces more than our job market can absorb and digest.
There are a handful of candidates who get the right job for which they are qualified. One reason seen behind the qualification-job misfit is the lack of skills. Although the degree is cleared, it is merely a stamped sheet of paper.
Learning and skilling the students who will be a part of the job market in the future is not really a firm and foremost objective for most colleges. Education is a business for those who sell it and a commodity for those who buy it.
To make the candidate profile’s suit job requirements a lot more practical examples, cases, group discussions, interactive teaching methodology needs to be incorporated into the teaching world. The word should be ‘facilitation’ of the learner in a learning environment.
In the long run, only those who continuously learn and upskill themselves will sail in turbulent waters.
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