A graduation ceremony. (Photo/varsity)
It is every graduates dream to get a well respected job immediately after leaving school, or if the odds are good enough during their last year of campus. Yes, it should be so, right? But what normally happens? Graduates strolling up and down streets looking for vacancies.
Reality is vacancies are there and our graduates don’t get to have these jobs because of what employer’s call experience.
Companies do not prefer fresh graduates. They want older people with ‘at least 5 years of experience.’ And my question is, where will they get experience from if they are not given the opportunity to a first job?
My opinion is, let employers stop making ‘experience’ compulsory to their viable employees. Let employers give these graduates a chance. If our leaders keep promising jobs to the youths, then let them come out and lift off the experience requirements in interviews. Because this experience thing only creates a cycle for those in the job market, where they can hop from one company to another and get automatically employed.
Let the graduates take charge in big and small companies. Experience is not taught in school, but it is gotten in the job market. So dear employers, open up your doors for them; let them get the experience while working for you.