An x-ray performed on Nigeria's labour market disclosed that employers usually give unfavourable regard to unemployed Nigerians, exploiting the high unemployment rate in the country.

The questions arising are;
Why on earth will employers request for 5- 10 years work experience from a graduate whose curriculum at the university, polytechnic or mono technics does not give room for student casual jobs?

Is it possible to acquire 10years work experience before getting enrolled into a tertiary institution, when hustling only fetches you different jobs with at most one year experience before resigning or getting fired?

How could it be real for a graduate with "not more than" 1 year post NYSC qualification, as always requested by employers of labour, to acquire 5- 10 years experience in a field?

Why would employers request for graduate applicant not more than 26 years of age with 5- 10 years experience? Or do they mean 26 above are no more industrious?

Nigeria, a nation where unemployed citizens would be found wanted for a job requesting for 5 to 10 years experience related to the work while 10years back you were privileged to work at over 10 unrelated jobs as means of survival. Garnering such fieldwork experience related to the job will be impossible. Employers who demand for above 3 years experience for recruitment are only in search for professionals or expert not "job seekers". The reverse is the case these days as many job adverts displays such hilarious numbers of year for experience in the field related to the required job.”

Nigeria, a country where you discover many unemployed citizens are close to their 30s in age or over and yet some employers under the disguise of reducing the unemployment rate request for citizens not more than 26 years of age. This can simply be translated into the fact that Nigerians above 26 years or over 30 are no more industrious and surprisingly their required job experience mostly fall in between 3 and 10 years. How do they intend bridging the gap of unemployment with those absurd requirements from millions of unemployed citizens?

Nigeria, a united entity where the literacy rate is low and employers keep asking for at least a year post-NYSC. Many Nigerians who are industrious and innovative are being sidelined from jobs capable of boosting our economy as a result of no access to education. Unemployed citizens who are unprivileged to study in secondary and tertiary institutions can be trained and retrained for the job because every citizen is in possession of one talent and natural endowment or the other which can help save our Industrial sector from collapsing.

In a sane economy, citizens like Olajumoke (the newest model in Nigeria) ought to have discovered herself before T.Y. Bello did and if many Olajumoke are catered for, it can help boost the entertainment and advertisement section of the country. If Olajumoke Orisaguna had applied for employment in Payporte or Stanbic IBTC bank during their last recruitment period in 2015, would they have shortlisted her?

Therefore, employers of labour should be considerate in their job requirements if they truly intend reducing the unemployment rate across the country while government should also intervene training and empowering both the uneducated and educated ones. The uneducated ones need to be trained in an institution where their various talents and natural endowments would be discovered.


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