Many school leavers have one big but important question in mind. How am I going to secure a job once my certificate has been handed over to me? This is because, there has been an almost endless talk about graduate unemployment to the extent that it seems to be the status quo instead of being the exception when one is transitioning from school to the world of work.
Many graduates are out there without any decent job to do and waiting patiently for the government to do some kind of magic and get all of them employed. The discussion on the cause of graduate unemployment is quite cliche and I would for the sake of remaining brief not join that discussion. However I believe that the idea of finishing school and not finding a job to do is a myth and a victim mentality that unfortunately has become well grounded in the mind-set of most graduates. And this myth has generated so much fear in these capable graduates to the extent that many of them have become virtually paralyzed by circumstances. The "victim mentality" where graduate have indoctrinated themselves that it is because of the inaction of the government that is responsible for their predicament does not hold any water.
Many graduates have searched for jobs with futility. You would see them searching frantically everywhere else but themselves for a job. I dare say that they should stop looking elsewhere for a job but rather focus the searchlight on themselves. I believe the almighty God created all of us with some thing unique and special in each of us which cannot be found in another person. Therefore if you do a careful introspection of your abilities and systematically examine them, you would realize that deep down within you lies not just a job but a potential employer of others.
I am talking about entrepreneurship. The most successful people today did not get as much training as many of our graduates have. But they looked within themselves instead of without and used their ideas and innovations as raw materials to solve societal problems and as a reward for such a feat, society pays them handsomely for their services. The skeptical ones would be quick to shoot down the talk about entrepreneurship and rather say "if everyone one becomes an entrepreneur then there will be no profit in it". The sky they say is too wide for any two birds to collide. The are many societal problems today then ever before and if everyone sets out to solve a particular problem, at the end of the day we would even have better solutions and approaches and that will all culminate at the end of the day in societal development.
If you are a graduate, or a graduate to-be reading this, I would like to encourage to look within yourself and discover that unique and untapped resource that the almighty creator has implanted deep within you. This would not be an easy task, but if you make the conscious effort to discover this wonderful gift, you would not just lift yourself out of the woes of poverty but you would become part of the solution instead of the problem itself.
Wutor Mahama Baleng
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