Unemployment is a major problem our country is dealing with. Statistics represents a very bad scenario of our country’s employment conditions.
Where we are lagging behind? What facts are affecting our employment policies? Why our graduates are not getting a job?
Let’s get through these statistics before finding answer to these questions.
Do you know 86% people of our total population are graduates and every year 15 million youngsters enter the workforce? Moreover 62% people of our population belong to working age group and 54% of total population is under the age of 25. Yet the unemployment rate of our country is approx 4.90% and most of the working people are not doing what exactly they want to do, to them it’s just a matter of earning money. Strange but true!
Reason ?
Our theory based education system. Today’s generation is aware of most of the things, but awareness alone is not enough to get you a job, you must know how to do it. We all are living in a world where we read more but learn less because we do not follow a practical approach. Our education system is not preparing candidates for the new working world. That is why our new generation is struggling for getting a job.
We have to shift our education goals from qualification-oriented to skill-oriented, only that way we would be able to generate more employment for our younger generation.