Unemployment is due to lack of initiative and quality education. IELTS essay

The lack of individual initiative and employment friendly education are the major reasons for unemployment in developing nations.How far is this true in your opinion?

Unemployment in poor nations is a grave issue. Although developing countries are considered as the richest sources of manpower, they lack good quality education to cope with the competitive world. Therefore, young aspirants fail to utilize the emerging opportunities. It is mainly due to the poor individual initiatives and substandard education. 50 words

It is true to a great extent that individuals’ personal preferences seriously affect the success rate in getting a job. Most of the people want white color jobs, and they do not take risks or challenges as they are being shaped in that way from their childhood onwards. Moreover, the today's private sector employers want confident candidates with outstanding performance not only in their certificates but also in their soft skills like communication, problem solving ability, time management and multi-tasking, to mentino a few. Naturally, poorly skilled ones lose the opportunity and their confidence level begins to fall. what is follows is rising unemployment rates. 90 words.

Similarly poor educational standards also lead to unemployment to a great extent. That is, there is wide disparity seen between the rich and poor and the rich can afford the high cost of education whereas the poor get only substandard education from poor institutions. The same thing happens in the case of urban and rural people. The urban people get more exposure than poor ones. Therefore, the former out-perform the latter in competitive exams and interviews. The ultimate result is unemployment. 80 words

In short, it is a fact that the world is full of opportunities but the attitude of the individuals and industry friendly education are required to achieve success in fetching employment. After all, if there is a will, there is a way. That is, if one is determined he or she can find employment. 50 words

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Written by Ms. Manya, my student in level two.
Edited and typeset by me
5/2/09