There isn’t really anything about being a graduate. Being a graduate is just a certified state of existence. It is, as a matter of perspective, not a guarantee of ‘the perfect life’ you envisioned; and fortunately, not every graduate is employable. It is expected that our years of academic experiences in the university should in every way deposit in us the skills and tutelage necessary to add value to an organization and as well help proffer tangible solutions to an obvious problem.

But here is a nation where these platforms of expression has been monopolized by people who ought to have retired, or even, aged personnels who lack skills and potential to meet up with the 21st century requirements.

Enormous populace of youths are certified as ‘graduates’ every God-given year, pushed out of the academia to serve our fatherland in pride costumes, with no hope for an income-sit. They get ‘mouth-shuting’ allowances that will only last in a twinkle….. and thereafter, we face ‘reality.com’.

Bringing it back home, then I will ask, ‘how many of our graduates are competent and skilled enough to deliver even when opportunity comes?’. ‘how many has an all-round experience in diverse field, necessary to add value to an organization when eventually employed?’. Or better still, how many of our so-called ‘graduates’ can at least, do the basics (write legibly, develop a business plan / proposal, make a report, draft an awesome resumé etc) in a business environment? . Are our institutions giving the undergraduates an all-round stability to meet up with unforeseen realities? These and many more I have been left to worry about.

So then, what makes a ‘graduate’ employable?

What makes a sit in the corporate environment vacant?

Can employability un-sit figureheads?

#reasonWithMe