Why Fresh Graduates Are Unemployed And Jobless In Malaysia
Six out of those unemployed are below the age of 24.
Why fresh graduates are unemployed and jobless in malaysia. They may hire a lecturer tha. As the number of graduates continues to climb each year students are facing tough competition amidst a shaky economy. The study involved 132 900 graduates from 18 public universities 18 polytechnics 34 community colleges and 13 private institutions of higher learning from all over malaysia. 5 reasons why malaysian fresh graduates are unemployed published on june 22 2016 june 22 2016 49 likes 3 comments.
Many universities in malaysia are not serious in term of education. The prime reason for graduate youth unemployment is the mismatch of graduate qualifications with the country s workforce needs. One in four fresh graduates in malaysia remains unemployed for six months after their graduation. Only 4 7 per cent of those advertised required any tertiary qualifications.
The unemployment situation among graduates has grown from a matter of gnawing concern to an issue that leaves furrows in the brows of education planners. Real starting monthly salaries for most fresh graduates have declined since 2010 says bank negara malaysia. Let s talk about ict and computer science field itself. Graduate unemployment was 9 6 per cent or 204 000 at the end of 2018.
According to the findings of a graduate tracer study in 2006 30 7 of graduates remained unemployed six months after convocation while 5 7 were still awaiting job placement. Of 1 47 million vacancies 86 9 per cent are for low skilled jobs. Yet the problem of graduate unemployment continues. As stated by the department of statistics malaysia the unemployment rates among fresh graduates have increased from 30 in 2013 to 34 in 2016 and national unemployment was 3 5 out of 14 million malaysians in the labour market.
For the first time we now have clear statistics of unemployment among youth including those who have just recently graduated. Graduates of universiti malaysia terengganu at their convocation ceremony last november. Malaysia s khazanah research institute kri noted in a study released last december titled the school to work transition of young malaysians that 95 percent of young workers in unskilled jobs and 50 percent of those in low skilled manual jobs are over qualified for these occupations.