Despite
the fact that Malaysian unemployment rate drop to 2.9% from last year and
Malaysian have been producing more graduates than ever before, the number of
unemployed graduate student seems to keep on increasing. Thirty thousand
graduate student, roll that figure for a moment in your head and you’ll realise
it’s a big number that has many of us state of rising panic. Why can’t they
find jobs? Why is it graduate student can’t find the job they desire?
ECONOMIC INFLUENCE FACTORS-UNEMPLOYMENT
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Graduate student who might have less education or do not have the right qualification of education is most likely to have a higher unemployment rate. Firm conclude that people who have a lower education is usually associated have less skill and is always in-between-job. Example, graduate student are most likely to work at a fast-food joint or work as waiter before getting a proper job.
Nowadays
firms are willing to employed people that are older compare to graduate
teenager. This is because graduate student are lack of skills and experience in
working in big firm or professionalism. Graduate student (or teenager) also
have the tend to follow their heart and emotion making them easy to quit their
job more frequently then adult does or doing the job as they desire.
For
example, KFC likes to employed student and graduate student as their stuff but unfortunately
it seems that their decision back fire when in February 2012, a customer and i-City KFC incident where the staff had got into a fight which also received
international attention. As result of the staff bad judgement, KFC got sued by
that customer and also bring a bad reputation to the company.
CONCLUSION
Hence
the analysis shows that firm makes decision on not employing young or freshly
graduate student to their firm to minimize problem. Unfortunately, this would
lead to student taking a job different from what they study to be as a result not
enjoying what they’re doing. Also, student might find it hard to find an
experience and skill require when most firms only employed people how already
had at least a 5 years experiences. In my opinion, small government and private
sector should give an opportunity to graduate student to gain experience and
improve their working skill. For example, more internship - student work just
for the purpose of getting experience and don’t expect to get paid - or
part-time job - student can expect little salary but get to improve their
working skill- creating a ‘win-win’ situation for both firms and graduate
student. As for graduate student, they should learn how to be a good employer,
be more appealing to do their work and be a professional.