1. Lack Of Required Skill
: In a nation like Nigeria, it is an essential
requirement for a graduate to be able to
boast of a particular skill. Talking of your
certificate, a million graduates can also
tender the same thing even with better
grades, getting ahead of them all is to
actually get head of them by developing a
stronger point of acquiring a skill.
Employers are obviously tired of seeing
same set of individuals with same set of
qualifications springing up for interviews
daily whereas they are in need of someone
that will stand out.Therefore, in case you
are being accused of not being
employable, drastic times call for drastic
measures, the ball is in your court.
2. They Are All About The Pay
: This can also be attributed to impatience.
Moment when a Nigerian graduate is
thinking of getting employed this day and
getting a car or probably buy a mansion in
Lekki the next month, based on their
salary,little did they know that cutting
such mustard is never meant to be in a
couple of days. The last time I checked,
such scenario only occurs in dreams, if
you have no one to disturb your sleep then
you will enjoy it for a long temporary while
before waking up to the reality that
success is built over time and with
hardwork, perseverance, dedication and
being focused over the years but bearing
in mind that every cloud has a silver lining,
you will reach your prime.
3. They Are Educated Illiterates
: Do yourself some favour by reading THIS
POST ABOUT EDUCATED ILLITERATES , it
will give you a great insight about what
this point is all about. According to a
Nigerian minister who once announced
that Nigerian youths are unemployable in
defense of a question posed against the
then President about his negligence in
terms of job provision. He said “Just going
to school and getting a certificate is not a
guarantee of getting a job. Every employer
wants beyond just a certificate. Every
employer is out to employ someone with
reasoning and intellectual might, not
someone who cannot play with a full deck.
Someone who knows how to and wants to
learn more than what they studied in
school and on the job. Someone who can
readily bring ideas to the table on how the
company can forge forward. Not someone
with low reasoning capability who won't
even be able to answer extremely trivial
questions.“. A graduate is expected to
develop him or herself so one can refer to
such person as a worthy and employable
graduate.
4. Employers’ Unrealistic Demands
: Reading through the requirements of a
company in search of a computer analyst,
it goes thus:
Applicant must be less than 28 years of
age.
Applicant must have acquired a
bachelor’s degree in one of the
following: Computer science, software
engineering or computer engineering.
Applicant must have graduated with a
minimum grade of second class upper.
Applicant must have at least 4years
experience in a recognised organisation.
Applicant must be willing to learn about
new ideas under whatsoever
environment.
Applicants must have a minimum height
of ****
Under these tense conditions, hardly will
you see a graduate that will scape through
and qualify for just the application,
invariably such graduate is unemployable
by such company.
How do we expect an average Nigerian
graduate with 4years of experience to be
less than 28years of age, it’s hardly
possible even if you attended a private
varsity where you might scape through the
trap of ASUU strike throughout your
undergraduate life. Also, setting a
minimum height for a job, though it might
actually be of great importance,
depending on the kind of job, but that
condition already made all the short ones
unemployable,if possible, employers
should keep it at bay.
5. Lack Of Good Grade
: This doesn’t need much story as the idea
is straight. Imagine a graduate roaming
the street and submitting series of
applications with a certificate which no
one can brag about, let’s just leave a
specific grade out for now. Little did we
know that the four or more years that will
be spent in a tertiary institution goes a
million miles in determining and dictating
one’s future in one way or the other, once
it’s taken with levity, such person might
graduate and become unemployable as
he/she will have nothing to offer
academically, and mere seeing his/her
certificate will become a turn off for
potential employers, no matter the skills.
6. Bad Nation’s Education Sector
: Unfortunately, this revelation is not
shocking given the realities of Nigeria’s
education system. Once the shining
beacon on the African continent with
people coming from the Carribbean and
even as far away as Asia to take
advantage of our reputable educational
institutions, Nigerian students now sit for
months on end in their homes waiting for
classes to resume because their lecturers
must strike to get the federal government
to agree to a living wage for them.
Pathetic! Examining the issue from the
possible root, Poor funding and
management of our Educational system is
a major problem. Our federal government
will never watch NLC go on strike for days
without taking swift actions, probably
because they will lose revenue. But since
ASUU strike has no or less financial
detriment, they are hardly concerned.
Then I wonder how a graduate who spent
series on months intermittently chilling in
his hometown during his undergraduate
days due to strikes and its alternatives will
come out being employable.
Conclusively, the whole nine yards of this
post is to summarise some of the reasons
why Nigerian graduates are unempoyable.
Bearing in mind that there is a method to
the madness of the post, it will be better
to tackle the message instead of the
messenger.

Most of them can't even write there own name, defend his/her certificate or speak good English.
But will still blame the Government for been unemployed.

tunnamania11:
It starts with u. It's THEIR not THERE.

Thanks.

Its high time we realized that you feed based on your skill and not paper qualifications. There are lots of people who will do better in a trade or apprenticeship but are in a higher institution which they have no ability for. Worse still these schools never prepare you for employment or better still self employment. Until there's a massive re-orientation on what education and skill acquisition is about and improvement in our standards of education at all levels, the situation will for a long time remain same.