Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Popular opinion is that Nigerian graduates are generally not employable because they lack the required skills needed by the employers.Hence, the shortage of highly skilled personnel to meet employers' needs and the high rate of youth unemployment in the country.Meanwhile, various factors like unqualified lecturers, inadequacy of study facilities, employer discrimination and preference, poor funding and irrelevant curricula have been blamed as the reason for this anomaly.This study is a descriptive survey of the perceptions of graduates and employers across fields of work on the employability of Nigerian graduates.The target population for the study included all Nigerian graduates of tertiary institutions in Ibadan North Local Government Area.A purposive sampling technique was used to select graduate job seekers, graduate employees and employers of labour across major sectors who had interviewed and employed Nigerian graduates.Findings revealed that substantial percentage of the sampled respondents believed that the graduates were employable.Meanwhile, 35.9% actually disagreed that average interviewed employee had the needed skill to be employed.This paper therefore, concludes that Nigerian higher institutions, the private sector and government need to collaborate on a system to intensify exposure of Nigerian undergraduates to job-training schemes, the world of work, practical trainings and entrepreneurship education.
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4387888449