Unemployment After School: Discover how to help

This article discusses the different reasons for unemployment and how undergraduates can make money while preparing for graduate life. Unemployment rate is high. Why? Some say its because of excessive corruption. No it’s not. Or Is it from the Universities? Definitely not. Our graduates are unemployed because of a plethora of reasons. The main reason being laziness and tenacious fantasies. In terms of communication, our graduates cannot make a complete sentence. Their grasp of the English language is so poor that interviewers find it hard to understand them (I’m a young employer). Basic English language should be learnt in nursery, Primary school and high school only. Before you get admitted into a university, they believe you are an adult that can think for him/herself. A university teaches you how to survive in life, and not how to speak English or force you to read. Most students dont like reading, they learn to speak by hearing and emulation. You hear things like”…according to Sen. Patrick Obahiagbon…”. They want to learn the fanciful words before learning when to differentiate between ‘their’ and ‘there’. So dont blame our universities for our poor graduates’ vocabularies. Next, unemployment is high because our graduates just wanted to enter a university because it was the ‘in thing’ or they just want to be called a ‘graduate’. They don’t know that a University prepares one for the harsh reality of life. That’s why you should always develop your talent; study a course based on your talent. Next, unemployment is high because our graduates have no plans after graduation. Their plans are to 1. graduate, 2. enjoy nysc, 3. get a 7am-6pm Job with a successful bank, 4. get enlisted as one of those soon to be fired after a massive shake up in the bank, 5. get fired, 6. repeats from no 3 …and the cycle continues…but these people still fantasize on being as rich as Dangote. How? Now, this is where I’ll put the blame on Nigerian Universities. No pun intended but our education sector is still a slave to our colonial masters. We’re still making use of the British system of education, that basically teaches you how to ‘carry on’ in life, instead of the American system of education that teaches you how to ‘start from scratch and survive’ in life. Little wonder Britain is so small and America is so large. A graduate of the American system doesn’t have the mindset to ‘work for someone’. He/she wants to start something new….and there’re alot of new things to be discovered, just look around and think outside the box. I urge students to try and think outside the box. There are alot…a damn lot…of ways to make money to propel you and your plans to the future, just make use of your only true friend…your brain. It’s begging you to use it. You guys should really stop graduating from school, just to contribute to the rate of unemployment in Nigeria.