ARE THERE MORE JOBS LEFT???

                     

Hire Me! Hire Me! Has been an order and the rhythm of the day and night, as thousands of graduates tarmac trying to make ends meet from one office to another, as well as from one company to another without   succeeding in getting a job. But why and who is to be blamed for this?  Knowing we are well into the new millennium and new technology has been fully implemented, leading to more and more inventions and innovations daily creating a lot of job opportunities.

Ten years back it all had been perfect! And everyone worked extremely hard to join an institution of higher learning for more knowledge. This guaranteed the graduates white collar jobs which were readily available in different organizations. Graduates needed not to walk for miles and miles as well as trade their multiple degree certificates and resumes well written on papers or through the new media.

 I know you can bear me witness that since childhood we all had significant personalities whom we admired to emulate as well as work with in the same firms and organizations. But today this is becoming a dream yet to come true bearing in mind that the unemployment rate is rising up daily in our country where 60% of youths and 40% of Kenyans are jobless according to a research recently done.

 Lower paying services is becoming one of the most daunting challenge to an extent that  graduates have to go through the pains of lower- income jobs before getting a higher paying job. Available jobs are being offered to the less qualified people, who necessarily need not to have university education to survive. In fact, graduates today with multiple degrees cannot find jobs that pay enough to sustain a decent lifestyle. These challenges have made graduates think outside the box and end up in self-employment as well as work in other countries hence leading to brain drain.

Nowadays one of the qualifications to jobs offered in the government fields and other well-known institutions is experience; a minimum of five years’ experience and a maximum of fifteen years as seen  in our Newspapers in the jobs advertisement page. This has become a very crucial requirement. The jobs being offered   with no experience pay very little, with very minimal chances for pay increase and therefore competition to get a promotion becomes a fierce.

Corruption is another issue where one has to know someone or bribe for a better job even without the knowledge in a certain field as well as the qualifications leaving the graduates jobless who later end up in businesses.

Unemployment challenge has led to a lot of chaos and soaring of crime rates all over the country and it is therefore common to find graduates idling on pavements or in groups doing nothing and engaging in drug abuse. Idleness brought about by lack of jobs has caused graduates to be used by  unscrupulous politicians  to cause chaos and start gangs to terrorize innocent people.