#DegreeofDoubt
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2020
- Tens of thousands of university graduates enter the job market every year. But, many of them go for years without securing jobs, while others settle for whatever job that comes their way.
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Manze maYouth wa Kenya tuamkeni. We do not need BBI,we do not need the dynasties nor the hustlers. We can not continue recycling leaders and expect change.
Say it loudly.
Exactly...but hawasikiangi
Very True,,,,BBI haitusaidii kitu
True
Very true
someone said "we are poor than our parents with the education they never had" i felt that sh*t
It's such a sad and sorry state of affairs.
What's more heartbreaking is that they took loans to pay for our fees in universities and now they have to continue taking care of us.
Bitter pill to swallow!
Deep
Damn
In Kenya, degree only matters when you don't have it.
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Exactly sir
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Wow!
daniel chege that’s true.people need to start harvesting early my friend not wasting too much time chasing it
With due respect to the reporter (Rose Wangui), this is a very shallow mini-documentary. Very shallow. It latches on to the same old argument that graduates cannot secure jobs because they lack the requisite (soft and hard) skills required by the market. Of course, that's true to an extent, but it also misses the bigger picture. First, the mainstream media must shift away, or deconstruct the notion that it's the market that determines the fate of graduates in this country. The mere fact that a Microbiology graduate (with first-class honours to boot) cannot secure employment in a country struggling with all manner of diseases has nothing to do with the market. It simply means there is a serious problem with the market. So, how do we problematize the market? You simply don't just interview the CEO of FKE, you talk to educators (you could even have interviewed David Aduda), economists, you talk to sociologists etcetera. In other words, the role of the mainstream media should be to challenge conventional ideas and thoughts that perpetuate the false impression that it's graduates who are not up to speed with the world.
Isaack hinted at biases during interviews and the spectres of nepotism and tribalism that prevent qualified young people from securing jobs in this country, but the reporter still clings to the market-based reasoning of the FKE. That young people should now move to TVET courses. How many children of these so-called bureaucrats study in those TVETs? Why is it that we cannot create enough jobs commensurate with the graduates we are churning from the universities and colleges? The question of unemployment is complicated and that's why the reporter should have done due diligence to research, yes, research exhaustively in order to stop the blame on graduates.
Unemployment in this country is being exacerbated by moral and social decay that has become deeply entrenched in this country where the mantra is 'what's in it for me?' and 'mta do?' So that an old person of 70 years still working in a government parastatal advises a young person of 25 to create employment for himself/herself, or join TVET because Vision 2030 will need those skills. Rose should have investigated those angles. That should be pretty obvious because your media house has researchers to offer nuance before airing any documentary.
The obsession with market dynamics I wish to reiterate is to completely lose the picture of why unemployment rates keep soaring in this country.
You have spoken well💯
In-depth analysis and thank you for pointing out a different angle of view to the Kenyan unemployment challenges.
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mimi nimemua kukuza na kuuza bangi...wafanye watakachofanya,nlisoma, kazi hamna, nifanye nini? nasitakuwa malaya wala mwizi...Uza mashashulaa mpaka walegalize!!!
You are on point. Kudos!
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.
This is what happens when youths fight for their tribesmen and tribeswomen to be in leadership instead of electing leaders based on the quality of their manifesto. The end result is the formulation of poor government policies that allow cheap and substandard goods from outside killing all the major companies that used to be sources of employment.
I somehow agree with your point
You have spoke like 100 wise men.
@@pinchesmbuche4354 I second him too yani saa KENYA ni Calampaings those youths chasing so called leaders for Handouts elect them and Complains for 5rs now even Covid is forgoten that thing is real tumezika malafiki wa home hapa UK andu matige itheru sio kuzuri
Tell them again
That's what it is bro
Ruto , raila , Uhuru can never change this country. Mark my words they can never. All they know is just politics and power. Kenya can never change with then in power.
Say it again!!!
So true and the three don't care.
Miguna Miguna has what it takes to make kenya succeed but, u see the corrupt will do what it takes to make keep him locked out of the country! 😞
@@tafari988 NOPE!!! Ata yeye bure. Let his overweight buffoonious self remain in Canada where he belongs!
Brutal truth
Here in Uasin Gishu you'll notice University graduates are selling land and opting to move abroad,Mostly UAE,Canada,US, Australia UK etc...the level of brain drain is disheartening.
Bad move especially now time ya covid watashtuka vibaya, I’m in Europe currently na hata huku hakuna kazi za ofisi
I remember jubilee manifesto was creation of one million jobs per year. And people are still saying Ruto for president. We don't need dynasties neither hustlers or tribalism we need leaders
Nimekupenda bure tu it’s because of bad leadership I a in the diaspora working away from home it’s not easy because it’s not my country I have no right to own property here. May God raise God fearing leaders in powerful positions
Complete the journey.
The problem is funding that leader in Kenya. Who do you think can change Kenya?
@@alawrence9016 mudavadi, thats my thought.
Increase the volume plz, anashindwa akiwa ambia wa pwani wanataka boda boda seriously na hku Kuna watu wako degrees, how r they going to help them nkt, hta boda naeza jinunulia
Did he say Law has opportunities? I have a law degree and I have only been employed once for 1 year. I was doing a lot at work and being underpaid. To make it worse the boss was hostile, always quarrelling and sometimes calling people names. So I left the job and I have been unemployed for two years, am just freelancing. Don't let anybody fool you. The struggle is real.
I believe legal services in Kenya is at its peak right now even as a legal constant you can be self employed that's the only solution to Kenya's unemployment status. entrepreneurship is the key
Wah! May God remember all the unemployed graduates.
Amen
This is exactly why I've always been paranoid my whole life. I fear what my life will look like when I finally finish my degree.
I'm not really sure of how this situation can be turned around but I have a deep feeling that Kenyan youths really have to pull some strings.
Did you get a job?
From a personal point of view I also found myself in a similar position after graduation, fortunately I got an opportunity through a friend to work on a project I had no idea about. I worked hard and learnt on the job, the skills I got from that project proved to be so valuable I have never had to seek for employment again. I have since gotten numerous projects as a result of that single opportunity I got, just what if I had missed the opportunity? Since then whenever a project comes my way and i do not have the required skills I always burn the midnight oil to learn the required skills and get the job done. I know this is not easy for everyone but anyone out there who can be willing to learn, work hard, be persistent,patient, not insist on getting employed and open to any available opportunities then you are on the path to success. Remember opportunities follow each other if you miss one you miss the rest.
Every graduate is really struggling in this country. Sometimes you regret why u have gone all those schooling yet being nothing in the society. Its really frustrating.
Research GROWING GOJI BERRY in kenya
Not every graduate.
@@Kittygacha_playz majority of them if not every one of them
@@abdirahmanomar9168 The question is graduate in what field?. So fields are not economically viable. This happens in all countries.
@@Kittygacha_playz I understand but many graduates from various fields are suffering without any luck of job. Unless you are from the medicine field count yourself unlucky in the market.
I'm a graduate from the catholic university of Eastern Africa, class of 2012, I'm now an Uber driver.
Heri ata io doo ungebuy taxi very sad state
Pole
I'm a BSc. Business Administration graduate class of 2017 working in Saudi Arabia as a househelp 😂😂
Bro, im a graduate of the same year Daystar uni, the most decorated uni. iv been an uber driver, farmer , waiter na sasa mjengo. ALUTA CONTINUA....
Painful vote wisely bro
And Parents are concerned about school opening with ...yet education isn't even paying back in Kenya.
So sad
Sometimes I feel like education is an expensive affair in kenya
Imagine
This is why people prefer to work abroad
That's true and that why I myself I'm in abroad
Hustling hire I have a diploma Human Resource... But no job in Kenya,,,
That’s so true I really hustle back in kenya with minimal pay , you have to know someone etc. This politicians take advantage of the youth.
Sarah nyambura mambos long time how de doing
I agree with u tulipotelea majuu ndio tupumuwe hewa nyingine
Before you even think about sticking your foot abroad ask around I'm sharing a little apartment with a UC Berkeley bio molecular engineer with a 640 000 dollar student loan and the bills come every month like clockwork regardless of coronavirus and the unemployment the pandemic brought with it yes American citizen white Male
To everyone whose working abroad and reading this comment, when you come back create your own business. Don’t think of coming to be an employee! It’s a waste!
@Ananito 910 with🤣🤣🤣🤣 Africa you need to Wake up! Kutegemea mzungu will cost your whole generations ooo
@Ananito 910 Stay there. You are lucky. I am trying to also to immigrate to another country. It's just this corona that has held me back. As soon as my application is accepted and I get a visa, I am out. All I have known in this country is poverty and misery yet I graduated with a prestigious degree. In Kenya if you don't belong to the elite class you don't get opportunities unless you are really lucky.
@Ananito 910 I have an aunt in Canada and she is making so much money, she has built a business here at home, a car, mansion and plans on coming back
@@ocholajennie1249 this is why I had to transit to different country after a degree in the UK.
This is very disheartening all these people with good and marketable degrees cannot get a job in the area of their chosen fields? Whatever happened to Uhurus pledge of creating more than 500,000 jobs for Kenyans and the youth in particular??or it was all just politics..cause all these people should be absorbed in the Kenyan economy and help the country..these are all very smart people people like lawyers,doctors,Engineers,Micro biologists,Software or Hardware Engineers etc.. should all have great jobs.
This is the saddest thing I've seen today sorry for missed opportunities, it's not easy having invested huge amounts of money only to end up jobless 😔😔😔
This makes me feel proud of eating my school fees
Mmmmm......wacha ukweli
Me too. 😂😂😂
Your comments is funny but the story is sad
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Am a masters degree holder. Late last year i was so broke that i took a merchandising job. My daily work was to arrange milk in supermarket shelves for 12k pm. It was the lowest moment of my life that i used to hide my face while working.
The problem is that the same youth are cheering those stealing from us
The youths continously adding up to the problems we already have
I love that NTV showcased this. It's about time. So many graduates are frustrated because despite them excelling in Academics, have nothing to show for it. It would be nice if the relevant authorities could be interviewed, for them to tell us, what it is they have done/ are doing to deal with this crisis.
After watching this,its hard to still say that education is power.
We should not give up. We should strive to correct this wrongs. Our leaders are messing us up.
"If you dont know anybody in this country nobody knows you", well said Issack
I disagree. I know many people who dont know any politicrooks.
@@Kittygacha_playz your lying
@@missdee9501 I know very many nobodies including myself. And i am proud to call myself a nobody. I dont know any politicrooks or senior government officials. What i do know are very many ordinary people who are the same as me, and are doing very well. You have a problem with your mindset. You have poisoned your own mind such that you don't see the many opportunities existing in Kenya. You have clouded your mind to where the only job (to you) that is a JOB is in an office. POLE SANA!! This is Kenya 2020. Forget about office jobs then you might get somewhere.
We are together .. I'm a college graduate i see no need of those certificates which my mother spent alot of money(loans) just to pay me fees..no shortlisting no nothing at all!
You just hear that people have been hired. How??? No shortlisting and sometimes no interviews.
I can imagine what these graduates are going through. I remember the time I was out there as a graduate and no job for 4 years. It was frustrating seeing some of those who never went to university with jobs and doing very well. Worse when you go to pubs and can’t even afford to buy a drink. My advice is to never give up or lower your standards. Some will fall into drinking and give-up. The jobs might be not what you expected but make the best out of the job and always believe in yourself. After the struggles, I made to US and my Kenyan education helped me a lot. Do not give-up because the education you have is a much bigger investment. And try to also connect with other people like you.
70% of wealth is lost when transferred from the wealth-creating generation to the next, and 90% is lost after that! The wealth is lost much quicker if it's stolen wealth. Based on such statistics then our politicians are fools, they need to create systems and an enabling environment where youths can flourish because their great-grandchildren won't find the stolen wealth they left behind and they will suffer the same way ordinary mwananchi is suffering
Am a biomedical engineering graduate today I went to KNH to ask for an internship slot i went to the HR office wueeh uyo msay ata 2 seconds hazikuisha rude as hell what we go through as graduates me l am losing hope
Pole
Don't lose hope, do that in other places too, just continue trying, siku moja itajipa 👌🏽
Hi Edmond.
Do not loose hope. If you do, you get more pain. I know it is difficult but keep trying. Go to other places. Do not stop applying. Try even overseas positions and graduate scholarships. You never know when it is your time. Keep the hopes.
Edmond, never expect a warm welcome wherever you'll visit seeking employment. Some can immediately embarrass u but u've to stay focused. Wanakujaribu tu. Not all of them means business
@@beatricechelagat3431 hello chelangat. Sorry to ask but did you go to Plainsview primary school?
This is why people go abroad.
Very true atleast abroad you find a source of employment
Yeah, this is such a waste of time and real human resources. We are only young and productive once in a lifetime
True and we end up missing our shithole country
I agree.i left for europe and have never used my kenyan degree.kazi nafanya is paying me way high than when I was in kenya.Afadhali huku juu am happy here.
Very true
First I thank God I have job... that being said,it breaks my heart when I'm told that I'm "overqualified" and yet I just have a degree
If you see this comment,Hama Kenya.
On my way to isiolo
Uko wapi tukam?
To where jamani, maisha imekuwa ngumu hata Hakuna hopes za kuenda pahali. 😔😔 It's frastrating
Papers don't matter in Kenya. Its about who you know.
Not always. I know very many people who are doing well, and they dont know anybody major.
Well put - Knowing God is your best option.
Build your brand!ata kama ni Opiyo Onions..
@@Kittygacha_playz thats true, this one is probably a nut case thats why hez lying, people get jobs WITHOUT knowing anybody, I know some
Our greatest problem is poor leadership! The system has failed us.
NTV HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF KENYA BY SPREADING COVID PROPAGANDA , THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA ARE COLLABORATORS IN THE DESTRUCTION OF BUSINESSES AND JOBS . THE WHOLE IDEA OF COVID HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PUBLIC HEALTH BUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ECONOMY FOR ORDINARY KENYANS SO THAT A FEW WELL PLACED INDIVIDUALS CAN INCREASE THEIR WEALTH
Same thing here. I have never earned a single coin from what I did at the university
Nga'nga Ni watu wengi who end up that way I think ni fate but ata KENYA Mlifungua so Many Universities having almost every youth with Degree all waiting for white Colour Jobs Cert zingine kama Plumbing ,Eletrician etc ftom a good Technical Institution are much better than some degree Wakahii tiwe wakairetu pole pole Mambo ita kuwa sawa. +44
@@mstevens832 hata mimi naona nkienda +1 or +44 huku ni kubaya
your not alone we are many
Me too
Mimi nilifanya bio tech pale mmust but Niko gulf working as fireman a crush course I did for 3 months and maisha inasonga Kama injili
Am a QUALIFIED ACCOUNTANT bt now am in Gulf Country for a casual Job. Our Kenyan Government has just being of WASTE to us..
Very painfull. Sorry bro
I'm doing degree in accounting
Same here, a graduate but working in gulf!
Sorry about that, consider working online, but with legit companies,Atleast when you come back to Kenya you will continue running your own business
Are you a CPAk? And have a degree?
Am sorry that after investing so much time and money in education, this young men and women have not been able to get employment, at least in their mind. To me, all of them seem engaged in something. However, they have refused to move to the next stage in whatever they are doing and stuck at the point of entry hoping to exit when opportunity in what they want comes through. Move on guys. Advance your station in your current area of occupation. For example engineer has been a helper. Graduate to a fundi, go to become a foreman and finally you will become a contractor. That's what am talking about brothers and sisters.
Thank you! Thank you for saying this. If you're a farmer,kick ass at that farming and be the best there ever was. The problem is doing is half-heartedly while feeling sad for yourself or thinking of what people will say. Sometimes it is about how we utilize what we have rather than what we don't have.
Agreed 100%. What i do today is completely the opposite of what i went to school for.
This is the best thing I've had today. Work with what you have to get what you don't. It is your individual responsibility to grow and prosper not anyone else's.
Very sad but trusting God is the best he is faithful.
This why I trust hustling abroad than in home 😢u need God father to secure a job
We can't recycle leaders like fools anymore. Let's wake up kenya
I CRY my beloved country Kenya. A blessed nation but deserves a lot of HOPE and direction for the sake of generations and generations. WERE DID WE GO WRONG AS A NATION? Young people are looking up for example and direction.....
Tell this people who have good academic qualifications to go out of Kenya and look for jobs abroad eg Arab Gulf,people have gone there as security guards and applied for better jobs from there,I know one who is now a manager at Qatar Airways
True, but that's taking on a big risk, especially if one has a family
While studying, learn how to find jobs. It is the hardest part. All the best fellows
the only true coverage for very long time has reflected the true picture of what is happening
Its really heart breaking wen one realises a degree holder been competing with a computer certificate holder only later to be informed u can't be hired since you are over qualified. Ati wanataka MTU wa diploma ama certificate level
Because you can be a degree holder but lack practical computer skills. An IT-intensive company will go for the certificate candidate because they're ready with the required skills. The thing is, go add the required practical *computer skills* on top of the degree, because that's where the real job is. Those that say you're overqualified just want to take advantage to paying low wages based on papers rather than work output.
Roney Ngala there is both like skills, they fear the job group level and the salary,, they don’t want to pay more
The resilience and the fact that they have alternatives shows how adaptable graduates are. The system has failed them as they cant find and do what they aspire to....
I have an issue with online applications to these public jobs. Everytime I apply when it comes to entering the email address it always says "invalid address" yet it's the email address I use....
Our government has failed us as youths it's high time we create employment for ourselves, am lucky after high school I went to gulf after 2 years went back and took driving course, I returned back to gulf and secured a job as a home driver so far I make over 60k from it can't complain
Poleni Mayouth pale mtaani Wenye mnapitia ii life ngumu. YOU WILL OVERCOME.
I have watched through this documentary, I have seen the names of Sing'oey, Gichini, Cheruiyot, Ochieng, Muturi, Olulo, Ndung'u, Mulanda etc... Kenyans why are we tribal when it comes to elections?? when it comes to problems we go through it is never based on tribal lines. why don't we vote in leaders based on their abilities to change our country? what i know is Kenyans are a hardworking people. Lets not blame graduates for lack of skills, that is lame excuse. all these people interviewed here are brilliant, they will deliver if given a job. their jobs have been stolen by Covid billionaires, NYS 1&2 highway robbers, NCPB thugs, Kimwarer dam scandals, Mafya house clinic container scandals, Eurobond scandals, SGR scandals, KPLC scandals, KPL scandals, NIHF scandals, 47 counties scandals, wheelbarrow scandal, Meru county curtains scandal & the list is endless. Kenyans lets wake up & reclaim our country.
the masses have no idea
I agree with you except for one thing. Politicians. I have said this many times. No politician will change anyone's life. The only person who can fix your life is YOU!! I have never voted in Kenya and i have no complaints about my life. I honor my late father for teaching me that.
At the construction site, there is a guy who did Plumbing, Electrical installation, Building and Construction, Welding, Wood fittings that will greatly benefit, despite not having gone to the university. While we put so much prime to university education, flexibility is required to enable us willingly take to any available jobs in the market.
System 8-4-4=0
Hilariously true
Tuko wengi, now i feel like starting all over, wish i had done nursing
Go for it dear I went back to college for it..I hate these degrees rendering youths unemployed.
Am a nurse bt bado tunaumia
Even nurses are unemployed
Haiya, had no idea nurses had a hard time too..i just see my friends doing nursing then going to usa, so i thought it was easier
Nurses, we also still unemployed. Too much nepotism, tribalism in the counties.
i feel him,its so devastating to see a learned person suffering while some members of parliament have nothing to show in paper they eat the public cookie jar and they want to called honourable ....its so discouraging to young ones
I have heard employers claim that we lack the soft skills, who's supposed to offer the soft skills, if not the employers. Working culture differs in many places and the University cannot accomplish the task of teaching people soft skills.
You will get a degree and they ask for masters. You get that they ask for PHD then a Doctorate. I realized that I would rather earn money through hobbies and stuff I am passionate about rather than use my papers.
Yeah your right and you may find people employed in some jobs have Not gone even to universities yet they are the bosses of company
Henry Kimani it’s about believing in Yourself. I had a 9-5 without a degree back in 2018, superior to people with more qualifications
@@Elsie_Akoth 🤣🤣🤣 wewe nawe unsjijua ata unaajiliwa Bila papers!
N C hii maisha my fren we eat with a big spoon 😂
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getting a job in this country highly depends on knowing people who have contacts...however, luck might also get you a job
The way to create jobs is to have a stronger manufacturing base, the way to have a stronger manufacturing base is to lower the cost of production and reduce legal hurdles.
Please guys I have in the same situation here in USA. Those menial jobs you are talking about are the experiences the employers are looking for, believe me. For instance if they ask you during interview to describe a time you achieve something you will always have something to say and supporting details. Employers need to hear stories of what you did how you handle it, and what you can do to improve it. Don't give up because you are almost there patience and prayers.
For those who over complain at work over each and everything, watching this video motivates you to learn to love your job however unpleasing it may be.
You dont get learned to get a job.....you get education to mould your character....just push harder it will payy back...and talk to God
Education now is just to get employed actually
Well said
this is just another politician….
talk to God as jubilee govt make covid billionaires
@@MrIsaac-vy4rd seems like you dont believe in God my friend....God never fails...you wont die b4 seeing his glory...just be patient...
Honestly this issue is with almost every graduate,I finished campus with a second upper class degree in Development Studies,Diploma in Community development,I have experience volunteering in many organizations in the same field,but we keep applying for jobs, however qualified we are,we never get the jobs because we know no one,and one recruiter blantly passed over Mr for his relative who was less qualified but we still believe in God's own time,he will perfect everything
Let me ask, in all seriousness. What does a person with a degree in development studies do?
@@Kittygacha_playz work in development project as a Sociologist especially in carrying out ESIA'S,becomes the link between the community and the projects
@@janekimani8379 That field is very tough. Most projects have their earmarked people for such jobs. Years ago i worked briefly for UNEP and was passed over for a permanent job. My boss was an Egyptian and when he learned i had a master's degree in economics he saw me as a threat. I would suggest you head out of Kenya for the US (if possible) get a Ph.D. then try and hook up with international agencies. My experience has been that western degrees open more dorrs with international agencies than Kenyan or African degrees.
@@Kittygacha_playz so so true
I have got an opportunity to work on the Mombasa-Nairobi Expressway project and the Jkia-James Gichuru expressway project but was let go,to be replaced by someone else.
@@janekimani8379 Pole sana. I moved to the US with a F1 visa to do another masters. If interested in graduate school i can give you some advice. Good luck.
Listening to that woman giving reasons on why these graduates fail to be absorbed sounds like a total mischief. The taxi driver and Valentine are speaking the reality and we need such speakers...
She is totally not aware of what she is talking about 🤣
I disagree. Take the guy with a Ph.D. in finance. Why does he not take his skills and create a full car business? Hii mambo ya "i am doing this while waiting for a JOB" has to stop. Second, with a Ph.D. he can easily get a lecturing job even if not in a university. Ama teaching is also not seen as a job in Kenya? He can also do online accounting tutoring. The ideas are endless. THINK people!!!
@@Kittygacha_playz infact,the PHD guy opted to resign from his bank Job ...right now he is looking for a job🤔🤔
children of previlege
@@janeotieno6378 Hapo pia.
'government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem"
-Ronald Reagan
People are jobless with 2 or 3 degrees and when you see some vinyangarika in perfect match talking of apart from being a student they are all owning companies.
The plight of boy child.Has any one noted its mostly men ?
I am here a lady and you might not want to know,
I am here a lady and you might not want to know
@@evelynwangai9385 We still take the biggest share of this unemployment cake
@@academictutors6896 and male leaders have impoverished Africa
Girlchild wameolewa bruh😂 sa wanaume tufanyeje
It's so hard when you go through such, it really kills you inside, devastates you in life. But we pray for him, the star will shine in him someday. Keep the energy going
You're not alone..... I completed college but sometimes I wish I was a class 7 dropout so that all that money which was wasted would be invested in a business
Dont lose hope or have those regrets Education iko kwa kichwa yakwa na hakuna anaweza kukunyanganya the right time will come +44
Hey my queen don't say that 😭💖💖💖
That is why we are suffering in economy and politics because the right people are not given chance to serve our nation. Am sad for this...
Self employment is the option to try especially in renewable energy.The system is also very constraining where in most establishments in Kenya it’s not the qualification that matters but whom you know there!
Ume sema yote niuohoro wama +44
Kenya's education system molds us to become employees with close to zero basic skills, starting from the 8-4-4 all we're taught is to cram and to cram more! What happens to those who aren't book smart? They too are forced into the system, study,pass,get a job, get a family, die, cycle continues with one's offsprings
It's high time something is done about this else we add onto the % of unemployed graduates and unskilled graduates
I graduated with 2nd class upper in 2011 in Bsc Biology and then with MSc in Botany in 2013 both at the University of Nairobi. Currently, I have almost finished my PhD in Botany. With all these, I have never been employed. May God help us
The education system needs an overhaul. The certificate has lost meaning.
Thanks for this documentary.
Go ahead and propose ways in which we can avoid an academic disaster in this documentary
Omg..the leadership of kenya have messed so many young men and women
we should blame the government,they need to be accountable ..someone else will tell me oooh its your individual responsibility yeah,you're right but the government need to provide a conducing environment and by environment i mean conducive i meant economic one,sasa a foreigner from CHINA akianza kuuza mahidi what will unemployed kenyan individual son of a a man,with less economic muscle do,africa we're so blessed with natural economic richness but we end up languishing in poverty,i thing we need 2nd liberation not from colonial white person but from our black people persons.....AM VERY BITTER PERSON
I feel you 😭😭
To be fair this is happening everywhere in the work I left Kenya got 2 degrees in Uk and still can’t get jobs on my level
If you have a job thank the Almighty God. We really need to have good working policies that will have job markets able to absorb new graduates. Don't give up.
When Kibaki allowed the commercialization of higher education, that's when it started raining on us. But then it's high time young Kenyans studied in view of creating jobs for themselves rather than waiting for them.
System is the problem we are taught to remember instead of producing of what we learned
Well put bro, but the system must be conducive to create fertile grounds for such small entrepreneurship ventures can thrive, and that means access to loans from government just like they give loans for universities or commercial banks in that retrospects! 😊
I look at education very differently. You learn tools, ways of doing something but you’re supposed to be innovative to apply the knowledge. But you need exposure/ experience so you know how the knowledge you have learned has been previously applied. If you don’t get the opportunity you don’t apply what you went to school for. I know the feeling.
Tony Kiguta in fact you’re also right. Governments fail us. They have a big role to play to ensure they create opportunity through protracted policies. I think they know that, but they use it politically to promise change but nothing is done.
The youths are suffering,while the old men are still in offices,they're waiting for death so that they can retire,its so frustrating.
I'm from egerton University graduated with bsc science, currently in marketing... Just boring education...my decision... My kids will have to be focused on more on talents and I will remain strict.
The problem is not education,the problem is the attitude of these dudes,education doesn't make u entitled to anything.
You've said it brother
The guy in manufacturing can start from scratch and come up with a small establiment gradually. E.g manufacturing products/materials in the building sector he is currently engaged in. An engineer in trained to think.
With all the arguments here I think.we are reading on same page I'm forming an association of unemployed graduates to device ways and strategies to make this leaders accountable to know we can't waste years in school for no reason.
This is so so sad and as female graduates its even worse yet you are so bright wat a life.God is watching😥
they will always laugh at you but u still have that knowledge!!!!you still retain it.
I graduate in 2015 diploma in broadcast journalism,having one and a half experience si mnijenge
There is a young man from Karatina University with first class in Microbiology. Please let him get in contact with me asap.
Give your number or email adrress in the comment section so that he can get to you
How?
Please put in your email address I will contact you. The guy specifically with first class microbiology.
@@jeffojwach8485 alipatikana?
I am here too as a graduate in Microbiology
It's unfortunate to see these guys going through this but believe you me!NOT HAVING THE SAID USELESS PAPER IS MUCH WORSE
True! The sun might shine anytime and in 5years or soo the paper can still be functional! Most people who’ve started side businesses - Consultancy firms and all from their savings, have employed other people! Let the sun get you ready when it shines. All is not lost for degree owners - there’s always a silver lining to everything!!!
I've been experiencing this ordeal for two years now...non payable internship, working with some toxic seniors, it's really discouraging and I have to skip some days and go to do some casual jobs whenever they are available, adding that I depend on my self since I'm a grown up...I feel for those who are yet learning, the situation they are about to find outside academics.
The high tax regime in this country is discouraging both local and foreign investors.We have great young Kenyans who are so innovative in I.T coming up with numerous and great inventions but what we see and read in the dailies is that govt is lobbying or tendering stuff from foreign countries 😱😭
The plight of Kenyan Graduates
Education is not the key as they say
Even if it is the key you have to bribe the other person on the other side of the door to go through.
Jubilee has failed us.
Are certificate and diploma graduates doing any better? Is the TVET route the solution to unemployment?
That is the way to go youths. Valentine Ochieng, you can go international with the online gig. This will require you and others of like dedication joining up hands and doing this. You can go high tech and enhance your presentation skills.
No Offence but we need to cultivate a culture that creates jobs over seeking. So many opportunities are out here and people are in need of the knowledge/skills that these graduates have. Sadly, we educate ourselves to be better employees not employers/innovators.
I agree with you
Yes, but not thru handouts! Its immoral! The government can create enabling environment, kazi kwisha, then we can work and earn a living with dignity!. We are raising a generation of people with no pride or self esteem in themselves, its a disaster!
I think it should be an option - Kenyans should have the option to work or be in business.
@@ZawadiBirya that choice is made possible by the govt created environment. In fact govt is not supposed to be a source of business or employer but a catalyst for both!...only by default but not design.
@@tangotusker Tony that is offensive. You are just talking like the politicians. That's the narrative that they normally say to cover up their failures of creating a conducive environment for job creation and even for employment opportunities while themselves they are in employment even as they speak, and always use their positions to get jobs for their family members through nepotism. Why don' they tell their children to go and create jobs themselves? They have the capital to do so. Yes you are right, but how to do you that in a system that has consistently failed to create policies aimed at absorbing its youth into economic development. The WESTERN WORLD DOES SO. THEY PLAN FOR DECADES AHEAD TODAY. What about us.What is wrong with us? It is painful. I graduated 20 years ago and have not secured a serious opportunity to advance myself. I am getting old and still can't see nothing yet. Something is wrong somewhere bro.
Graduated in 2018, working as a casual at a factory
He wishes he did medicine? Waah...if only he knew
Atleast Med iko afadhali compared to the others
@@electronicsartssports689 do your research btw, thousands of unemployed doctors, nurses, and other health care workers.
Many unemployed doctors while the government is importing from Cuba
He also mentioned Law and I laughed. I am a lawyer and I have been unemployed since 2018.
@@kilemihenry7541 you know!
I would advise youths _am youth_ apply for jobs get shortlisted-show up for interviews ....
Get entry level jobs
Sales jobs and run with it.
The plight is not specific to graduates, all the youths are jobless. Only 2% of the youth graduate from Universities. Education is not the issue, the issue is CORRUPTION and incompetent government.
POOR CURRICULUM we have!
Since class One we are trained to pass well and begin looking for jobs.
Politicians make us political objects, "if you elect me, I'll create million job opportunities."
Developed countries train youngesters to create jobs opportunities before the age of 25.
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Watching this bring alot of mixed emotions. First I am so thankful that I am employed and not struggling. Secondly, it gets me so angry towards the system and the people running our government. The ways funds are misused and looted that could as well create opportunities for this young people is so disgusting. A few people are benefiting in expense of millions of youths. Kenyans lets stand up and give the leadership of this country to people who really care about us!
Sadly this is the path for most graduates...I know the struggle all too well because I went through this before I got a job...don't worry bro a better job will come through one day...in all your struggles put God first and you'll make it