In many countries today there are many highly qualified graduates without employment. What factors may have caused this situation and what, in your opinion, can/should be done about it?

A lot of people say that graduating from top universities with

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GPA

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will certainly lay a wider road to a decent

job

afterwards. Doing that doesn't involve rocket science, but it doesn't mean that it's not complicated. Sadly, many

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students from renowned universities end up jobless for months or even years after their graduation. In my opinion, there are many factors to

this

and some of the most prominent ones will be elaborated

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follows.

First

of all, there's always an abundance of

graduates

from a myriad of majors ready for lines of work at distinct companies. But the problem lies in the capability of the graduate to match

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the

job

's needs, barking up the wrong tree per se. In many cases that I've observed, people tend to apply

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wrong

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jobs or with

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preparations.

For example

, an individual who wants to apply for a data analyst puts details on how he completed various projects in accounting.

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irrelevance in

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hard skills

causes rejections to said person's application. Another point is that some of these

graduates

' mindset is distorted by a range of mental factors. Some people are deterred by their low motivation, allowing themselves to wallow

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their past failures

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of learning from them. The others

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too much of a high ego that results

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refusing to cut their losses and having the belief that the small paying

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job

is not worth it. These disturbances

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one to stay in a loop that never ends,

hence

the reason why they are still unemployed until they get it out of their system.

Lastly

and the factor that has the most effect

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unemployment is the lack of

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soft skill

soft skills

soft-skill

development in an individual. Skills like communication, leadership, and project management are essential points that one needs in their endeavours as an employee. Without it, an expert in

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can't convey their ideas, coordinate their team, and control their projects.

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is why it becomes an important factor in candidate selection. To address

this

problem there is but one simple solution. Each university needs to make sure that

graduates

have the necessary knowledge and skills to tackle these three factors. By

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acknowledging

it, those

graduates

will be able to develop plans to make themselves

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better

candidate

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for any

job

selection process.

This

can be done as simply as providing a small guidebook for final year students, or as big as creating a

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workshop session to boost their

graduates

' understanding of the concerns.