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I would like to discuss issues around university graduates and the constant state of unemployment most of them are in due to several reasons. I also want to elaborate how university and other tertiary educational facilities are not necessary to actually become educated. In this day and age, almost all education is completely free as long as you have an internet connection.
Introduction
People assume finding work straight after graduating from university is easier than without a tertiary qualification but they are almost always shocked by the lack of interest in newly graduated people looking for work, especially without work experience. A University graduates dilemma’s, the compulsorily need for work experience, the accelerating redundancy of university and the unlimited power of the internet. The world is changing faster than we can handle and faster than we want it to.
A University Graduates Dilemma’s
The sole purpose of university is to get a piece of paper (sometimes 2 or more depending on whether or not you continue with studies) that basically says your qualified in some field or course. It however, does not prepare you for the painful integration into the machine of the working world. It does not guarantee a job you will like, a decent salary or satisfaction for the 3 – 5 years you dedicated to it. You may be wondering why I’m saying all this when something like the unemployment rate for graduates in the US is only 3.7% from December 2017 – December 2018, but this doesn’t mean they are actually working in a sustainable job nor a job they like.
About 58% of graduates working in their first job leave within 7 months to a year, 13% leave just under 6 months in and only 29% stay in their first job after 1 year. One of the biggest reasons for this is that 40% of graduates take jobs that are not even degree demanding because often or not that’s all they can get. Most companies do not like hiring recent graduates that have little or no work experience. Even adequate amounts of work experience can become redundant if they do not have relevant skills that transfer over to the job your applying for. So you have spent 3 – 5 years slugging away, you need to pay off your debt for your student loans and books and residence, you apply everywhere that your degrees applicable and barely get any responses, and now you work at McDonald's while still living with your parents. That is a very real situation for many graduates out there and it needs to change.
The Compulsorily Need for Work Experience
A lot of people have the mistaken fallacy that a degree or diploma on its own equals a high paying job or even work and that’s a mistake that is never corrected early enough. To be able to easily find a job is the same as being a diamond, you need to become a valuable resource that everyone wants because you guarantee quality and efficiency in your desired field. You sell yourself as a package to a company every time you apply to a job, the package being your CV and the contents comprising of your education, qualifications, achievements and WORK EXPERIENCE. Work experience is most often the deciding factor between you and another person for a job position and that’s why getting any work experience at all as early as you can is beneficial. If you can get work experience in something that relates to your desired job in the future its even better. Too many young adults think that all they need as that university degree and its often the downfall of a lot of them.
The Accelerating Redundancy of University
Now I am not referring to the sole purpose of university in giving that important piece of paper/s but in its implied role as a source of education. Almost all the information that university teaches you can be found online and not only is this easier to access but it is almost always completely free as opposed to the couple of thousands of dollars you would pay every year for university fees. An example of this redundancy comes from my experience in temporarily studying electronic engineering before switching courses due to my absolute hatred for what I was actually doing in the course. As an electronic engineering student I had to study both chemistry and social studies. The reason for having to study chemistry was apparently for “background information” as the one lecturer described it and it was never used or needed for any other course after that which infuriated me immensely. The reason for needing social studies was because apparently “all engineers do not have good morals” so we were taught everything from hate crime cases to gender studies… Even the courses that I thought mattered were redundant in that what was taught was standardized and what was mathematical was simply irrelevant because calculators and other programs exist. But the worst thing is that we had to pay for over $400 worth of textbooks… and the irony of all this is that I found out that I could get all the information for every subject, in every textbook, and any help I would need, online for free… My entire engineering syllabus was online for free right in front of me but it didn’t matter because learning how to become a competent engineer is not as important as getting that piece of paper. The only thing about university that I will say is important is the practical portions of it. Actually doing what your hoping to do in the future is an amazing way of teaching and if it was only done more often, university would not be as frustrating. A piece of paper is more important than your actual understanding.
The Unlimited Power of the Internet.
Here I will list just a few things the internet can do and how this ultimately over shadows any methodology of the past:
· Free access to almost all information(documents, articles, encyclopedias, research, news, statistics).
· YouTube tutorials.
· Online grammar and spell checkers.
· Online help forums.
· Email.
· Video meetings.
· Live streams.
· Cloud storage.
· Online tutors.
· Working on documents at the same time(google slides, google docs).
· Online messaging.
· Semantic search engines suited to your preferences.
· Free educational courses(Khan academy, w3schools).
· Website creation for advertising.
· Sever hosting and renting.
· Instantaneous information transfer.
· Easy access to free lance workers.
· Secure forms of communicating important information (encoding).
And the list goes on, as these are only a few aspects that show how convenient and essential the internet is in the modern day.
I do want to apologize about getting a bit emotional during the The Accelerating Redundancy of University paragraph as it is something I feel very personal about but none the less, I hope it was helpful to you all in some way.
Thank you for reading.
References
· Why your first job out of college really, really matters
· New Survey Results: Recent Grads Leave First Jobs Quickly
· U.S. - unemployment rate of recent graduates, December 2018 | Statistic
I would like to discuss issues around university graduates and the constant state of unemployment most of them are in due to several reasons. I also want to elaborate how university and other tertiary educational facilities are not necessary to actually become educated. In this day and age, almost all education is completely free as long as you have an internet connection.
Introduction
People assume finding work straight after graduating from university is easier than without a tertiary qualification but they are almost always shocked by the lack of interest in newly graduated people looking for work, especially without work experience. A University graduates dilemma’s, the compulsorily need for work experience, the accelerating redundancy of university and the unlimited power of the internet. The world is changing faster than we can handle and faster than we want it to.
A University Graduates Dilemma’s
The sole purpose of university is to get a piece of paper (sometimes 2 or more depending on whether or not you continue with studies) that basically says your qualified in some field or course. It however, does not prepare you for the painful integration into the machine of the working world. It does not guarantee a job you will like, a decent salary or satisfaction for the 3 – 5 years you dedicated to it. You may be wondering why I’m saying all this when something like the unemployment rate for graduates in the US is only 3.7% from December 2017 – December 2018, but this doesn’t mean they are actually working in a sustainable job nor a job they like.
About 58% of graduates working in their first job leave within 7 months to a year, 13% leave just under 6 months in and only 29% stay in their first job after 1 year. One of the biggest reasons for this is that 40% of graduates take jobs that are not even degree demanding because often or not that’s all they can get. Most companies do not like hiring recent graduates that have little or no work experience. Even adequate amounts of work experience can become redundant if they do not have relevant skills that transfer over to the job your applying for. So you have spent 3 – 5 years slugging away, you need to pay off your debt for your student loans and books and residence, you apply everywhere that your degrees applicable and barely get any responses, and now you work at McDonald's while still living with your parents. That is a very real situation for many graduates out there and it needs to change.
The Compulsorily Need for Work Experience
A lot of people have the mistaken fallacy that a degree or diploma on its own equals a high paying job or even work and that’s a mistake that is never corrected early enough. To be able to easily find a job is the same as being a diamond, you need to become a valuable resource that everyone wants because you guarantee quality and efficiency in your desired field. You sell yourself as a package to a company every time you apply to a job, the package being your CV and the contents comprising of your education, qualifications, achievements and WORK EXPERIENCE. Work experience is most often the deciding factor between you and another person for a job position and that’s why getting any work experience at all as early as you can is beneficial. If you can get work experience in something that relates to your desired job in the future its even better. Too many young adults think that all they need as that university degree and its often the downfall of a lot of them.
The Accelerating Redundancy of University
Now I am not referring to the sole purpose of university in giving that important piece of paper/s but in its implied role as a source of education. Almost all the information that university teaches you can be found online and not only is this easier to access but it is almost always completely free as opposed to the couple of thousands of dollars you would pay every year for university fees. An example of this redundancy comes from my experience in temporarily studying electronic engineering before switching courses due to my absolute hatred for what I was actually doing in the course. As an electronic engineering student I had to study both chemistry and social studies. The reason for having to study chemistry was apparently for “background information” as the one lecturer described it and it was never used or needed for any other course after that which infuriated me immensely. The reason for needing social studies was because apparently “all engineers do not have good morals” so we were taught everything from hate crime cases to gender studies… Even the courses that I thought mattered were redundant in that what was taught was standardized and what was mathematical was simply irrelevant because calculators and other programs exist. But the worst thing is that we had to pay for over $400 worth of textbooks… and the irony of all this is that I found out that I could get all the information for every subject, in every textbook, and any help I would need, online for free… My entire engineering syllabus was online for free right in front of me but it didn’t matter because learning how to become a competent engineer is not as important as getting that piece of paper. The only thing about university that I will say is important is the practical portions of it. Actually doing what your hoping to do in the future is an amazing way of teaching and if it was only done more often, university would not be as frustrating. A piece of paper is more important than your actual understanding.
The Unlimited Power of the Internet.
Here I will list just a few things the internet can do and how this ultimately over shadows any methodology of the past:
· Free access to almost all information(documents, articles, encyclopedias, research, news, statistics).
· YouTube tutorials.
· Online grammar and spell checkers.
· Online help forums.
· Email.
· Video meetings.
· Live streams.
· Cloud storage.
· Online tutors.
· Working on documents at the same time(google slides, google docs).
· Online messaging.
· Semantic search engines suited to your preferences.
· Free educational courses(Khan academy, w3schools).
· Website creation for advertising.
· Sever hosting and renting.
· Instantaneous information transfer.
· Easy access to free lance workers.
· Secure forms of communicating important information (encoding).
And the list goes on, as these are only a few aspects that show how convenient and essential the internet is in the modern day.
I do want to apologize about getting a bit emotional during the The Accelerating Redundancy of University paragraph as it is something I feel very personal about but none the less, I hope it was helpful to you all in some way.
Thank you for reading.
References
· Why your first job out of college really, really matters
· New Survey Results: Recent Grads Leave First Jobs Quickly
· U.S. - unemployment rate of recent graduates, December 2018 | Statistic
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