Vocational Training as a Solution to Unemployment Among Youths.
Undoubtedly, unemployment is one of the banes of our country Nigeria. Unemployment is particularly common among the youths despite the fact that most of them are graduates of one higher institution or the other. It is assumed that most of the youths are unemployable even with their education.
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Unfortunately, they are educated to be job seekers only and not creators or employers. What this means is that they are not trained to make use of their hands hence they are graduates from higher institutions who are only suitable for "Wide Collar Jobs".
Consequently, most of them become frustrated after searching for this jobs for several years without success. This situation can be reversed if vocational training can be encouraged in and out of our educational institutions.
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Vocational training is the training received on a particular trade or occupation. For example, girls can be trained to become hair dresser, photographers and so on while our boys can be trained to be barbers, dry cleaners and fashion designers.
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I know many people who are successful with most of these vocations and they started small. That is why I made a post titled A Walk Through Life - You Don't Have to Start Big for You to be Big - Start Small and Grow Big. I know of a popular photographer here on steemit who is very successful at what he does. He is @papa-pepper. View his blog and see for your self. That is his vocation. The problem most youths have is that, they don't want to start small, they all want it big. Have you heard about @destinysaid? He is a Music producer and he is earning big from it both offline and here on steemit. What about our own blockchain entertainer @michaelcj, he organizes shows, he dances and can also sing, he is also on steemit and he makes his money offline too with what he does. Get something doing and stop blaming the government. We all have one or more embedded skills in us. #### Discover and develop yours.
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Training in different vocations is the solution to unemployment because any youth who has undergone such training will have to look for someone to employ him. He will want to establish himself in the business whether he gets assistance or not.
Using myself as a point of reference, I studied Human Kinetics in the university, but I knew the situation of this country and with the help of GOD's direction, I went into Web Development and today, I own Toxaswift Solutions which has succeeded in building numbers of web projects. Though the struggle was never juicy.
Besides, a youth who is self-employed, due to the vocational training he has received, will train and employ other youths. Through this, the rate of unemployment in our society will be reduced. As a result of this, there will be less pressure on the government hence government will be able to divert attention to the provision of infrastructure that will facilitate job creation. Vocational training in this way, will make it possible for most of our youths to be producers of goods and services which when purchased will make life comfortable for them.
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Through vocational training for our youths, many products like soap, detergent, pomade, air freshener and even paints can be produced. This will make the country to become producers of goods which when improved upon, can be exported to other countries of the world, hence foreign exchange will be be earned for our country.
It is in the light of this that is a matter of urgency for all youths to get their hands greased with something doing. Something creative that you don't need to work for someone in order to put it to work.
Moreover, vocational training should also be introduced in schools to give youths the opportunity to learn one vocation or the other which they can fall back on when they are unable to get the said "wide collar jobs" after graduation.
Vocational training is an efficient method of reducing unemployment through empowering youths economically by training them to use their hands to create job opportunities for themselves. If they are trained in one trade or occupation, they will establish small scale industries which will make them self-employed.
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LOL, exactly, this is the height of frustration.
Nicely said. Especially in this part of the world where we have irresponsible leaders. The cheap way out is to have a vocational skill so you can be productive and self sufficient.
A lot of people are making a leaving from various vocational skills.
Thanks for sharing
Very true. Youths need to change the way they think. We need to think about creating jobs rather than looking for jobs which are not available.
Hi cas.. Yes vocational training is good idea.. Here are some vocational tra institutes of gov trying to teach different courses like stitching beautition fine arts and for boys different electronic mechanivs type courses also gov started some online work trainings but its on short scale.. I also wish to be enterprenuer but it requited hard work money skills etc.. I am trying to learn some online skills so ll be able to teach others freely.. Cas can you plz help me in one thing? Can you plz suggest some niche or some tags which i can adopt here to be successful here i am much confused.. I want to focus one or two things..
You just have to follow what you love doing. What is that thing you can do without much stress. That thing you can generate ideas easily from it. Where focus goes energy flows. If you choose a niche where you don't have much ideas coming in, you might not give to your readers what they deserve. Search your heart and give me a feedback then I can tell you a niche to focus on.
We completely agree with the idea that vocational training plays a crucial role in reducing unemployment and empowering young individuals economically. That's why we introduce the life-changing programs by providing them with the necessary skills to work with their hands and pursue a trade or occupation.
These vocational training enables them to create their own job opportunities and become self-employed.