19The employment prospects
.doc19. The employment prospects of university graduates
Choosing a university is of an exceptional importance because our decision will influence the march of events and will be a turning-point in our life. How not to mistake while choosing one?
While choosing university where we would like to study we think to what sphere of life we want to dedicate our life but unfortunately finishing it, it doesn’t give us guaranties that we will work in this field Because nowadays it’s very difficult to find a job. And sometimes students finishing universities can’t find anything connected with their profession and start to work in absolutely different field. The employers make rigid requirements for students that’s why in order to comply with their demands, one must be good grounded. That is why universities must prepare their graduates for all aspects of their adult life – world, leasure, personal relationship, creative activities, coping with money matters, independence, and parenthood. Nowadays the employers complain that young people coming into the workplace are weak in the basic skills of handwriting, grammar and spelling and even criticize them saying that they lack a basic understanding of simple maths.
The employers think that the standards in GB nowadays are not high enough. That job expectations of young people have increased but their degrees of abilities remained at the same level.
In Belarus today we face such a problem that students after finishing university can’t find the job because of the big number of graduates and who are just not ready to work. Because unfortunately nowadays university programs include a great variety of subjects that don’t play any practical role. And in the result students have to study a lot of useless material when later they don’t know how to apply it in their job.
Graduates want to find a job that can bring them satisfaction, stability, the chance to be promoted and a good salary. And a lot of them deserve it. But unfortunately after studying hard 5 years in University, they can’t find a good job because in our modern world it’s more important who you know and not what you know.