Executive Director of the Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation (ILAPI), Peter Bismark Kwofie has suggested that graduates should not complain of unemployment especially when their parents have businesses they operate no matter how small these businesses might be.
The policy analyst believes graduates could add value to the businesses operated by their parents and stop chasing after white-collar jobs without any hope.
According to him, if a mother who operates a fish business is able to see her daughter or son through school, the children have an obligation to use their skills they learnt in school to help the business grow.
Using a female graduate as an example, he said the graduate has been searching for a job over the past three years without success when she could have used her knowledge she acquired in school to make her mother’s business better.
“After the 4 years in school plus the National Service, you have been unemployed for 3 years. You Mum is still in the fish mongering business and has bought a plot of land to build.
As a graduate, you have refused to support your mum’s business with the knowledge acquired from the university and roaming about hunting for office jobs.
You have wasted 3 years searching for a white colored job. If you had added value to the business of your mum, the business could be expanding and pay you more than the bank job.”
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Are the Graduate Unemployed ever going to be serious? – Part 2
Your mother is a fish monger and have done this for 15 years from which she was able to send you to school. She funded your Banking and Finance course at the university through that business and provided you with all that you needed.
As a single mother she made sure to pay your school fees and gave you accommodation fees as well.
After the 4 years in school plus the National Service, you have been unemployed for 3 years. You Mum is still in the fish mongering business and has bought a plot of land to build.
As a graduate, you have refused to support your mum’s business with the knowledge acquired from the university and roaming about hunting for office jobs.
You have wasted 3 years searching for a white colored job. If you had added value to the business of your mum, the business could be expanding and pay you more than the bank job.
All those working at the banks won’t retire there but with the fish business you could add a cold store as the fish mongering keep growing in strength.
The blue colored jobs are evolving and please don’t be late to grab a skill as soon as possible otherwise your study in rural development program or Business Administration would keep you hungry and pale.
The Skill Summit
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
