Nowadays, some businesses face problems with new employees who have just finished their education and may lack interpersonal skills such as the ability to work in team. What do you think is the main cause of the problem? How can it be resolved?
Yearly, we see thousands of
students
graduating from the university struggling to adapt to work-life. Even when they performed excellently well at school, they don't seem to have the required soft skills
to work in a team
. This
is caused because schools focus more on technical skills
. In this
essay, I will discuss the main reason for this
and what can be done to solve this
problem.
The primary cause of this
issue is that schools focus more on technical training and less of people skills
. For instance
, a student studying engineering will be taught more on engineering skills
and less of interpersonal and team
management skills
. Thus
when such
a student graduates, he finds it difficult to cope in the real world. I will discuss the solutions below.
Firstly
, the school curriculum needs to be reviewed by the Ministry of Education. They need to include management and leadership development courses
into their teachings. For instance
, courses
on high performing teams and leadership fundamentals should be included for year two and three students
. Also
, tertiary institutions should focus on team
projects and not on just personal assignments and projects. For example
, final year's project should be a team
project and not an individual project. Lastly
, all tertiary courses
should do a one-year industrial attachment program. Currently, some art and social science courses
don't do this
and others that do, do it for six months.
To conclude, the current school system focuses more on technical know-how and less of soft skills
. This
has led to the difficulty of graduating students
blending in in a work environment. The major responsibility lies with the Ministry of Education and the Tertiary institutions to review the current curriculum and includes more industrial attachments, management training and team
projects. If all these are done, the graduating students
from our schools will fit into organizations.Submitted by oghalemichael on
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