Nigerian employers are one of the most strict employers in the world. Sacking no less than 2000 employees each year. The state of the nation is unarguably poor. The high rate of unemployment play a huge role in the disrespect of employees. Graduates no longer have respect or integrity in the job market. What are the factors that had contributed to this trend? Graduates work for low or no pay marketing and security jobs. what has gone wrong about graduating from the four corners of a Nigerian University?

The following are some of the numerous factors that makes graduates incapable in the mind of employers.

1. Unemployable: According to a popular say, "a graduate is someone that knows something and almost about everything". The educational quality of Nigerians has been jeopardized over the years. Educational standards as at the post British era has been thrown out of the window. Corruption is one of the numerous contributors to this ugly trend. Just like a disease, eating up the educational, leadership and socioeconomic aspects of the nation. This disease like a retrovirus looks incurable in a nation that kept producing half graduates each year.
A student can buy his/her way to the convocation ceremony but cant defend his/her way to a job position. This has left employers with no other choice than to dig deeper than that which has been certified in a certificate.

2. Highly competitive job market: Another popular say, "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven". Now rephrase the statement as this: "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a graduate to go out of the labor market. Each year graduates keep trooping into the job market. The overall number of graduates coming out of the National Youth Service Corps each year is close to about 7000. Many jumping in without a clear plan or niche to operate. Therefore, there is a high rate of unemployment that makes employers eager to exploit the desperation of graduates. Paying them peanut salaries and using them maximally over what they can earn monthly.

3. Pride: Employers tend to boast about their achievements, making them feel that none of the university products can attain the level of achievement that they had. Such employers often nag about slight errors or mistake made by an employee. They have this mindset that Nigerian graduates can never be at the same level of operation as of those of the whites or foreign countries. These employers sometimes are school drop outs or dummies with bad results but find themselves operating above a University graduate.

Entrepreneur is the way out for graduates with no experience. Digital marketing, Agriculture and trade to mention a few can curb insults and disgrace and can make the integrity of graduates to be back. Not just for ourselves but for our younger ones and children.

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