For Better Job Prospects, Look for Skills not Certificates

Four years ago, he just graduated in a crowded university and earned a degree certificate. Despite being the best student and attaining the first class, today the certificate rests quietly under the roof as Kelvin runs up and down for his survival tactics.

For decades, education has been praised and worn as a major key to make it in life. This sounds terrible. Many parents have pushed themselves to the grave of poverty sacrificing their savings to give better education to their kid. Does it work? 

Government invest billions of shillings in schools and both parents and children end up buying a notion that education guarantees a betterment of tomorrow. This really kills dreams of many and buries them a live because in the world of today unemployment is at peak. Unpromising economy and changing dynamics of job in the market have pushed many people to be irritated and trying to understand; is education really the only way to survive today?

In many traditions, classrooms are full of numbers, cultivating hope. Teachers with their tools planting courage onto them. Ideologically, they are teaching them to work hard and one day education will open the door for them. 

I think for me, I would say not everyone will be a beneficial of it. Education steers up knowledge, creativity, skills, and enabling to adapt on new challenges. There are careers that depend on education like doctors, engineers and many more. What about the rest?

Reality outside the school can make you feel less fortunate or traumatized. Fair fact, school walls hold much. After university, many graduates end up taking unrelated work to their careers. What will they do and the jobs are scarce and they want to survive?

Finally, you may get engineer ending up as a foreman and a journalist as a teacher.

In the busy streets of cities, survival sometimes depends on innovation than on academic certificates. Many of them did not even attend a lecture but they have best and stable livelihoods through practical skills and determination. 

Education is still of high value but it should not be bought as the only path to survival in life of today. Mixture of skills and ability to adapt quickly to changing opportunities offers better chances of success. Parents should now rethink how success looks like.Therefore, they should not push children on one path, instead they should teach them practical skills. This will enable them to create job opportunities.

Education can be termed as powerful tool but not a guarantee of survival. In today’s life, success is often offered to those who are able to combine education with creativity, hard work and the willingness to explore new paths. Kelvin is done with this preparation to start this daily routine. He buttons the overall and holds this huge bag ready to wear it on his back. Beside him, there is a customer, he smiles at her and calmly greets her with a smile. The reflection on his face really tells that education helped him to understand the world. Therefore, we should learn how education can work when combined with skills and innovation since we may never dwell on whether education is the only way to survive or not.