EDU 508 Assignment Four

Jasmin Brown

Strayer University

Dr. Jewell Winn

EDU 508

May 21, 2018

Themes

The Theme of Class Difference

It is evident from the research that many students from low class or in other words the poor society are discriminated. The best education is offered to the wealthy students; their institutions are well equipped and have the best degrees which have demand in job market. Students who come from these institutions are well favoured by the job market. Their institutions have a good reputation and they are trusted by the employers to produce competent students. The cost of education in these institutions is high and thus it only accommodates the chosen few who can afford it. (NEW MBA GRADUATES HAVE AN EASIER JOB SEARCH, 2005)

Students from poor background are not able to access education from them due to their resource potential. These students end up enrolling in other institutions of lower standards which sometimes lack the adequate facilities to offer some courses of their choice. The job market also doubts their competency and thus their chances of securing a job are always minimal. Wealth is what that determines the future of one having best education but not hard work as it could be thought, those who afford quality education always get employed first as compared to those from substandard institutions

Theme of Technological Innovations

It is evident that most of the firms are shifting from manual labour to machinery. This is due to the efficiency that comes with technological advancements. Technology though is seen as expensive to install with time it reduces the operational costs. This is one of the key factors that many organisations are opting for it. Increased levels of technological advancement have rendered many people jobless. It is also one of the problems facing graduates whose courses have been substituted by the technology. Technology has the positive and the negative side of it, thus its usage has to be controlled in order to prevent the crowding of the job market currently experienced. (Purcell, 2007)

Technology has also led to emergence of many courses related to it and due to demand many students having been doing them. Over the last few years many students have graduated from several institutions thus leading it impossible for all of them to secure a job. The job market cannot handle the number of graduates per year from this courses this is one problem many people are jobless. Also there have emerged middle level colleges offering substandard courses where they end up bringing half-baked professionals in the job market who are incompetent. Murphy, (2010)

Contrasting findings and results

Many people and graduates have a perception that the job market is in search of the best scholar. This makes them to do all they can to achieve the so called good papers. This becomes totally different when they graduate and end up being jobless despite having good papers. The job market is always in search of the best through competency in skills and not the knowledge from books. Bosses are looking for people with expansive and creative minds, which can be used to move their firms to the next higher levels. (Crozier, 1996)

Majority of learned unskilled graduates end up being jobless despite them having good grades. Education sin higher learning education has continued to be more expensive with the recent times. This makes many students to engage in loans so that they can sustain it. By the time they are graduating they already have a burden of servicing these loans. With the current conditions in the job market where securing a job is seen as luck, many graduates end up engaging in casual jobs so that they start paying the loans. This situation causes them to end up lacking experience in their field of study and thus remain jobless for long. Many take higher education to be a bridge to the employment but in some cases it is not. (Mason Williams, 2009)

The gaps in the literature

The literature has omitted some information on whether those offering job opportunities require experienced workers or they take time to mentor them. Many hiring companies seem to be side-lined on the experienced workers and thus their expectations are always high. In such organisations fresh graduates do not secure job opportunities. The other gap is on whether institutions of higher learning are consulting the job market on the type of workers they are interested in based on technological changes. Technology is advancing every day and there might be some new innovations made which require special skills other than the ones being administered in schools. This might cause graduates to lack securing jobs as they will be rendered unskilled. (Domandenik, 2010)

The summary

Securing a job opportunity in a graduate’s field of study is seen as one of greatest achievements made in life. This is due to the crowding that is currently being experienced in the job market. The crowding has highly increased the levels of unemployment and thus this makes it impossible for one to secure a job. Everyone in the currently days is talking about the soaring levels of unemployment and the way it can be eliminated. It can only be done by corrective measures being put in place.

The competition in the job market has consistently increased due to large number of graduates being released into it per year. Every parent is striving to make sure his children attain the best qualifications for the job market. The schools have also fallen in the same trap and they are producing experts who are after white collar jobs. This experts lack skills to start self-employment ventures and thus they end up being unemployed. The government should come up with measures to encourage self-employment other than graduates only waiting jobs to be created for them. The government should also favour the private sector so that it can increase its hiring potential. (Eggert Krieger, 2013)

References

Crozier & Grassick, p. (1996), I Love My B.A, pp.19-26

Domandenik, P. & Farcnik, D. (2010), The School-to –Work Transition of Graduates in Slovenia, pp.299-324

Eggert W. Krieger (2013), Education, Unemployment and Migration. Munich: CESifo

Mason Williams (2009), Employability Skills in Higher Education, pp.10-30

Murphy Bulstein (2010), The College to Career Transition, pp.174-181

NEW MBA GRADUATES HAVE AN EASIER JOB SEARCH. (2005), Report Salary Surveys, pp.8-9

Purcell Wilton (2007), Hard Lessons for Lifelong Learners, pp. 57-60