Young, talented and unemployable

     This time I’ve listened to the audio called “Young, talented and unemployable”. Here is a reference - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009xbbp. The duration of the record is 18 minutes.

     I had to listen to the record twice – the first time 90-95% of the information was accessible for me, the second time helped me to understand almost all words and phrases which I couldn’t understand during the first listening.

     This audio was very interesting for me as we all will face difficulties in finding work, so we need to know what skills the companies require and what kind of education we need. The chief executive of Manpower told the main characteristics: experience, ability, productivity. There is a widespread opinion that young people are cheaper, but it’s not true. Of course some companies try to save money cutting the salary for us, but now this tendency is  going away. Another problem is that the government doesn’t support forward-looking companies which really try to involve young people into working process.

     In any case it’s not easy to get job. We need to study more and more. For example, in India companies face a lack of suitable candidates – there are a lot of unemployed people, but almost all of them are not well trained. One of the problems is that they still use information system of the past, not of the current times. This system hasn’t changed during 30 years.

     In Cambodia every year a hundred thousand young people enter the job market and it’s struggle for many to find work. Many companies are disappointed with the job applicants; young people don’t have realistic expectations about their future job. Everyone wants to be a manager but they don’t imagine what skills are needed. Almost everyone needs further trainings and courses. Many business and management graduates before they are ready to work need to learn a lot – from language skills to the base of business.

     And in my opinion people face this problem not only in Cambodia, we all after our education are not ready to work, we have to study more a lot to become real specialists.