Unemployment - Education System or Attitude Problem?
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005 | 5:29 pm @ SK
"What happend to our education system?", a not-so-chubby-afterall’s friend jejeli asked, quoting her experience interviewing people during the recently held MSC Recruitment Fair for ICT Industry 2005 in Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC). Quote:
One point to note is that the unemployment rate is really a big problem in Malaysia. Imagine I interview 3 MBA holders who try to apply for internship program. Besides, there are a lot of fresh graduates who are too choosy, saying that no I don’t like this no I don’t like that during interview session. Even worse, a lot of the interviewees can’t even speak english. What happend to our education system?
Leave the choosy graduates aside, the part that really strike me is the non-english speaking interviewee. I remembered Mack shared with me that he once interviewed a few MBA students for some research purpose to assist in his thesis writing, ended up feeling extremely shock that some of them can’t even spell a proper sentence in english?
Now, back to the attitude problem, how true it is?
According to DLJR Consultancy chief executive officer David Lim, unemployed graduates only have themselves to blame for not securing jobs as many have a serious attitude problem. Quote:
"Only about 20% of graduates who join our programme had the right attitude and commitment to learn the skills to become good financial planners.""At least 50% of the applicants are crowd-followers while 30%(more) are indecisive."
He then continued to say this:
"Many graduates have the perception that there are lots of better-paying jobs." […] "They should go for sales and marketing jobs, which pay well, rather than complain about low salaries and then keep on changing jobs."
While I’ve to agree with the Law of Abundance that there are lots of better-paying jobs out there, however my question is: Are you qualified enough to fulfill the criteria?
OK, let’s say you "believe" that you’re a real talented fresh graduate and you’re damn sure that you’re qualified for that, ask yourself what else you manage to get out of that job for your own personal development, besides the only high paid salary that you’ve got?
However, I won’t blame you for you may not able to accept what I’m trying to tell you here. Afterall, you’re now doing things that serve your own belief system.
Remember, there is no right and no wrong in choosing your very own career path, but don’t overqualified yourself, especially fresh graduates.
It’s simple enough: Learn how to learn, before you learn how to demand.
Accept it or ignore it, you’ve a choice.
Now, back to the main issue, is the education system OR the serious attitude problem to blame for the alarming unemployment rate?
My very little one cent: Look into your own internal factor, think and learn on how to improve on it. If you’re unemployeable, don’t blame how bad the education system is, don’t blame how you’re unfairly treated by the education system, look at your ownself and ask what you’ve learnt and what you still need to learn and equip urself, then move forward. As I said, you’ve a choice by your own default that it set by you yourself, pick up the choice which you "think" is correct, and live on with your dream, not until the day you failed your dream, you start to blame the same old shit that you’ve blamed during your growing up years, feeling regret for the rest of your life.
I’ve a friend, feeling very ungrateful towards things that happened in our backyard, decided to sell off his business and started a joint-venture in Hong Kong not long ago. I asked, what made you decide to start your own business in HK? He replied: "What I want is not only money, I don’t just live for money, but for the LIFE that I want."
All the best, mate!
June 29th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Actually, there’s an on going discussion at the Education in Malaysia blog too. His reasoning is that applicants require more industrial training. So that perhaps is another reason why our graduates aren’t employable by certain standards.
Education system couldn’t just mean schools, I think it should also involve the teachings at home. I speak better than average in English because I converse more in English even at home. The weakness is that I’ve lost out on any Chinese dialect.
Anyway, I think every factor should be taken into concern to solve this problem. Maybe an awareness campaign should be run about how important is English currently and try to balance language in Malaysia though I doubt everyone in the country will accept this.
As a side note, I think those graduates who studied what they want to study just because of the money, happy tormenting yourself without any joy in consideration. Hope the money will drive you to better goals.
I honestly studied what I love and continue to do what my passion still remains. :) Cheers.
June 30th, 2005 at 10:13 am
I also heard from a friend, who was from one of the organizing committees (that organized the great malaysian hunt), that some jobless grad could barely speak speak english. And because of this (check this out..), an extra, separate booth had to be set up to cater to these job-seekers.
June 30th, 2005 at 10:29 am
Hmm, this is only an act of fireman, putting out fire whenever wherever it is, but prevention measure.
June 30th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
“a not-so-chubby-afterall’s friend jejeli”
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March 13th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Unemployment graduate might lake of some important skill that require in nowadays globalization need example will be leadership and communication . Sometimes its also because graduate think that the job are not fit to what they study before example a graduate of accountant might only search for the job that relate to what he is study so ….
July 7th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Unemployment Survey:
>Weak English
>Bad social etiquette
>Demand too much pay
>Degrees not relevant
>Fresh grads too choosy
>No vacacies
July 8th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
It’s been long told that Malaysia education system needs upgrading and improvement…. Last year I had to endure a frustration of rejecting top graduates from the so-called top Malaysia institutions. First class students no longer impress me..