Education is pretty outdated now.
Colleges are stuck teaching old info, while companies are looking for skills in AI, digital marketing and real-world experience. So just having a degree isn’t cutting it anymore.
Companies want people with experience.
They mostly hire those who’ve already worked somewhere. But how can fresh grads get experience if they can't land that first job?
Freshers take more time to train.
Bringing a new person up to speed usually requires time and help from someone senior. Because of that, employers tend to go for someone over 30 who can hit the ground running.
Jobs are mainly in big cities.
Most of the cool offices and tech firms are located in major urban areas. If you’re in a small town, you either have to move or risk being jobless.
References are super important.
A lot of jobs are filled through personal connections, not just by sending in your CV. If you don’t know someone already working there, your application might just get overlooked.
Feel free to chime in with your thoughts.
Based on the rising population size I don't think that there can be Employment Opportunity for every youth because the number of youths who are of the employable age yearly is more than the available jobs, What this means is that as an individual you need to plan and focus on your personal development especially with building a skill that can help you become self sufficient tomorrow. If you have a skill you do not need to seek employment under anyone rather you become an employer of Labor and will even help the employment situation in your country.
What you have just said is school is outdated, not education is outdated. People that did not go to school can be highly educated. Another one is that there are many people that go to school and get employed. Because people from your country are not employed, that does not mean it is happening in all countries.
AI reduced jobs but AI also create new jobs.
White collar jobs ain't much these days because of lack of sufficient jobs. You need to learn a skill and be creative. There's no way you will learn a skill and not have the experience in that skill. This is why construction companies needs people with experience. It's only in my country that I have seen a graduate in engineering without any practical skills in that field.
Learning skills isn't a bad idea in fact it's a good step to start with, but it does not end there. People also need to continue learning, adjust to market changes and learn how to promote the skills. You see alot of people out there still struggle because they don't know how to manage a business or reach out to customers. So putting together practical skills with a good business knowledge can increase the chances of becoming self sufficient or reliant.
These are real problems, and they are not even new. Every generation has complained that education has not matched the job market.
They are still teaching web development in theory, which is essential no doubt, but if the buyer can create their own site using Claude by paying 10% of the amount they were paying to the developer, then they are not going to hire any developer. But it does not change the fact that development is necessary as a first step. Now we just do not have to remember all the code and syntax, we have Cursor, we need creativity only.
I think the experience paradox is the most exaggerated thing, and when a person who has not gone through it, they cannot understand it but only listen about it from others and complain.
But in reality, freshers are mostly paid more than experienced people, which is unfair for the experienced ones. But still, there are thousands of internship opportunities that a fresher has to do even if it is not paid. Do it, gain 6 months to 1 year of experience, and you will be good after it.
How long will you be dependent on others? Why are you not creating your own source of income? Food crisis is a big problem at present, why are you not dedicating yourself to food production?
Employment is still there, but the mentality of the youth has not yet developed. In a country where labor is given dignity, there can never be unemployment in that country. When most of the youth of a country are dependent on only a few institutions, then the problem of unemployment is natural in that country. With the increased population, the source of income will also increase, but if everyone is dependent on jobs or depends on only a few institutions, how will employment increase? Blame yourself for unemployment, because a real hard worker is never unemployed. We have to change our mentality, change the society and change the education system, only then will unemployment in the country be eliminated. At least one entrepreneur should be produced from every educational institution in the country, but are we getting it?
Education can never be outdated for it sets solid foundations for knowledge ability from a basic form.
No knowledge is either old neither can you tell me that those in the colleges are wasting their times. I hope not because the colleges has it bases of preparing the scholars mental faculties ahead of higher educations.
Degrees might not be enough ( I will agree with you) if we are talking about technical departmental jobs rather than just managerial or administrative nature of jobs.
This is why attending technical institutions gives scholars edges on securing job opportunities. There you will have the skills and the degree same time and rhsf gets you covered all rounds.
I would add that drug abuse and addictions that may include gambling and other things may be reasons why some youths remain unemployed and also laziness on the path of some youths who don't have godfathers or helpers but do nothing to add value to themselves in terms of educational and personal research terms.
The world has evolved to the stage where working for a company or a boss is almost outdated and so many persons can earn from joining different online organizations, do remote jobs across the world from their living space.
Afterall, we see AI taking over the jobs of those in big cities and towns, so one needs to think outside the box in order to earn income for themselves instead of being reliant on some miraculous helper or white collar job offer.
Seems like you're completely out of touch with what's actually happening when it comes to education. At least in my country (and many developed ones) there is definitely a push to modernize education, however you need to teach the basic skills of life before getting into specialization like AI, which has only really exploded in popularity in the last few years. "Digital marketing" is a specialty and complete useless to 95%+ of jobs out there. Your second point is a dilemma, especially because I've seen candidates fresh out of university who take a long time to understand and adjust to working life. All of the other things have been true for a long time, but it is true that some governments are making it cost prohibitive to give these younger candidates a chance because they've raised the minimum wage so much and they have a reputation for being comparatively unreliable.
For the rich companies is really hard to see people getting employed without knowing anyone in there just as in the op description, over population has always been one among the major causes of unemployment and indeed it is in an increasing rate and it will continue to be like that and government of most countries are not putting this in consideration providing employment opportunities for the rising population, you see people getting more than one skills just so that they wouldn't stay without Jobs and the rate of self employment has really increased as well as waiting to work under someone could be a complete waste of time.
Education became a business in 21st century, so schools and colleges are accommodating as many students they can and milk money as much as they want and the result is mediocre students with no real world skills this is why they are struggling to get a job. And what IT company are you talking about? There are many people who completed graduation in computer but they can't even write simple code then it is fine to not give them job unless they equip themselves with the necessary skills.
Exactly I can relate, our country's education system still seems to be very old. I myself have written HTML code by hand in my school exam notebook. But in reality the real way to learn HTML is to write code on a computer, run it, fix it if there are any mistakes and see the results.
In this way just memorizing or writing code on paper can get good marks in exams, but real skills are not developed. This is where the education system needs to be more modern.
Unemployment remains high mainly because:
Minimum wage hikes and high payroll taxes push companies to hire fewer juniors.Too many people chase the same office jobs, while trades go unfilled.
This demand of experience is really a very big barrier for MOST freshers in the labour market because they MAY need to undergo training to have practical glance of the nature of the job or learning about the companies protocols.
But come to think of it, even if an experienced employee is being employed in a professional job, after passing the interviews, I think they still undergoes learning about the operations and pricniples of the companies as that too, so it's battling why employers don't just consider to hire anyone who has the efficient ability to do the job? I'm sure that're freshers who can handle the job better than the experience persons, only that they haven't been given the first time opportunity.
Reference only matters in terms of assurance of the employees conducts and reputations.
But in an unfair employment system referee sabotages it where qualifications of degrees or skills nor experience may not matter since the employment is by recommendations.
With this employment systems unqualified employees can be hired or just mean that the employees will be hired without being screened.
There is no better employment than self employment, because that is the niche this days amongst the youths so it is wise to follow the recent trends and developments that surrounds employment. In my country, the youths are regarded as lazy and unserious and compared to the days of our forefathers and how they conquered poverty even during the war.
It is important that one should not only be book smart but also educated all round, as education does not generally deal on books and school stuffs but a general aspect of acquiring knowledge. This also relates with employment too, the wise ones would learn to diversity and learn new paying skills rather than rely on the government for jobs.
Because the cost of employing a worker is very high in many countries, companies prefer to employ fewer people. One of the policies that governments should implement to reduce unemployment is to enable employers to employ workers at a lower cost; that is, a price should be determined that does not disadvantage either the worker or the employer.
The fact that jobs requiring manual skills are no longer preferred is also a reason for unemployment. Although the earnings in some regions for these professions are very high, the inability to find workers is a major problem because these professions need to continue.
The reasons you mentioned can be cited as common problems in many countries. Serious efforts must be made to reduce unemployment and increase the incomes of workers. For this to happen, governments need to provide assistance to the market.
You're completely mistaken because the main cause of youth unemployment is that we continue to use outdated institutional, industrial, and educational systems that were designed to enslave people in the early 18th and early 19th centuries, and we expect new outcomes. People like Satoshi realized this before he created Bitcoin because all previous systems were centralized and never worked for the average person.
Only the people who dont follow the old system ways are does we see creating jobs and employ those that still practise the old system.
It might sound weird but I think a degree is surely enough since it's just a piece of paper that shows you can take instructions in a professional setting. But what people get wrong is that during that degree, you should have already equipped yourself with personal skills along the way. Meaning, while studying, you should have been building practical skills, not just reading and passing exams for years. Now, after graduating, you shouldn't be looking for real knowledge, you should already have it.
Sometimes it is not even about knowing someone and because your CV is not rated if you dont know someone to help. The real fact is that no work for people actually. The government is not creating enough jobs to accommodate its people and the the people that are supposed to help, which is the private sector, the government is making running a business very hard on them, so they dont even get to expand to accommodate more people. The corruption is there, the unjust and being biased is also there but until government creates jobs, most of this wont be able to be solved.