March 28, 2024

7 Reasons Why Graduates Miss out on that Job

7 Reasons Why Graduates Miss out on that Job

Being jobless, dwelling in their parents’ basements, hogging on junk food, and devoting all day to the play station. Seriously, the graduates today are finding it a bit difficult to secure the job they desire, something that keeps them going. There might be something solid that’s holding them back, even after having secured a college degree.

The discussion to follow will deal with the possible reasons that obstruct college pass-outs from scoring a desirable job offer. A modicum of carefulness might actually serve in your favor to get prepared ahead of time.

The Exponentially increasing competition

With college education becoming accessible to the majority of cohorts on the globe, the competition one faces have become increasingly stiff. Education has become more affordable and the pressure to attend college and secure a job has intensified. This has only resulted in records being broken in terms of college applications every year, across the globe. However, the job openings are taking a mellow ascent, resulting in a complete clog and hence imbalance. Ultimately, the ones with mediocre skills end up jobless after college.

The only hack to the situation is polishing your skills and making yourself competent enough!

Meager or No Work Experience

You might be committing the grave mistake of presuming that your graduation degree would alone suffice for the job you desire. However, you might not be the only one thinking this way. A multitude of students spend their college years just partying, attending classes, studying, and running after grades. The most imperative factor you need to realize is the utter necessity of some pertinent internship experience in your field. Being a student remuneration doesn’t matter, but the experience sure does!

No Transferable Skills Whatsoever!

In layman’s language, transferable skills are those that get you employed and can be shifted or utilized from one profession to another. These don’t stem out in one day but are required to be polished over a due interval of time.

People proficient with computer skills will always be high in demand, so learning these might actually turn the table in your favor. Companies around the globe have begun leveraging technology in their offices, to work with high efficacy. If you can be in line with that, Voila, you sure are employable. In addition to this, having necessary people skills is also significant, considering that it’s a team game out there in the corporate world.

They Don’t Realize the Importance of a Network

Statistics have shown that a majority of employees around the world have secured their jobs through strong referrals. Obviously, there’s a reason why word of mouth is gaining importance in the job market. The employer will always trust his employee referring a candidate, rather than some random mail on LinkedIn, with an attached CV. But the catch is, you got to be ‘worthy’ enough to get referred. This brings networking to the scene. Once you start attending events pertinent to your field and connect with professionals through social media, then you realize how big this world can be. Obviously, lack of this kind of understanding has resulted in a huge multitude of college graduates being unemployed.

No Finesse in the Resume

Long gone are those days when building a resume was all about jotting down your personal and academic information on a piece of paper. Today an employer demands an organized one that vouches for your contenders for a profile. Everything left aside, to rank high in the employer’s search result alone you need to sprinkle the right keywords at the right places. Plus, formatting it in the best way possible and giving out all information in a crisp yet enticing manner is equally important. Not to miss, the cover letter, which is becoming highly prominent amongst job-seekers nowadays.

No Effort to Inculcate Interview Skills

There even are candidates who get past the resume stage, are shortlisted for an interview, and still, miss the bus. The reason, obviously the brainstorming they suffer at the hands of the recruiter. This demands thorough preparation and pre-interview research to ace the interview. Missing out on the same results in nothing but unemployed times.

And Last But not the Least- Calling it Quits Too Early

Not getting any reverts from hiring managers, sure drops your morale, but is that all you got? Getting depressed and negative would make it even more difficult for you to fight back. There seldom are candidates who taste success in their initial attempts. So, with a hard-headed approach, show your mettle.

The list can go on to a zillion possible reasons. But, in the end, it’s all about making the right amends, timely. So without further ado, start your preparations and make a run for it. You’ll surely succeed. Excelsior!

Anshuman Kukreti is a professional writer and a keen follower of The Emirates job market. An engineer by qualification and an artist at heart, he writes on various topics related to employment across the globe. Reach him @ LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+.

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