addidaskawembe wrote:@new investor, I will give you an honest assessment out of my 18+ years experience in recruitment and management.
Most companies recruit attitude and then train the skills on the job, it’s no longer about degree’s & papers only.
Companies are looking for people who are innovative and are ready to take initiative without being reminded, people who are solution driven and can think out of the box.
Good recruiters can detect this during interviews from how your CV looks, what you have done during and after your university days.
Our current university products are mostly lazy, cannot take initiative, all they think of is earning big salaries and working for big companies simply because they have papers.
I have even seen people rushing to arm themselves with Masters e.g. MBA’s so that they can bargain higher salaries and earn more yet they cannot deliver anything.
Do your own research and you will confirm that most of our so called graduates cannot even express themselves in both oral and written, their writing skill is highly wanting with too much SMS style colloquia.
I can give you numerous examples of mid level college products I have personally recruited who have outshone the so called graduates, no wonder now days graduates are offered much less than they think they are worth.
By the way university education is supposed to equip graduates to become EMPLOYERS not EMPLOYEES.
That is the new problem now, people rushing to get 'papers'. They get the out of peer pressure and in the end after the masters degree someone doesnt know what they shall do with the cert but to negotiate for more salary instead of looking at a line of work that will help them apply what they have acquired. With the wrong motivation that results to some getting this masters then you get the problem of not only communication skills but nothing to right home about regarding their ideas or analytical skills. Theirs is at best equal to an undergraduate or even high school graduate. More should be done to ensure that the 'papers' are earned not through fees but by effort. Part of the blame is also the institutions which are now businesses instead of first being gateways to education. We have campuses of Universities everywhere with some of the institutions not being bothered about the standard of the teaching staff hence the students arent helped by their own effort or by their lecturers