From the onset of registering as a student, there is a cognitive mutual obligation between the university and the student. The student has to some extent an amount of hope, that the university will meet his or her uncertainties about the career path and the future.
The university often plays the “not-so-known” lead supporting character in our grooming stage of life by opening our eyes to opportunities around us. The fact that we cannot recognize them acknowledges the fact that “THEY” failed to tell us.
The “THEY” factor in the title above connotes our senses and only our senses but not the university or any personality associated. It seeks to bring some realities the senses have seemingly failed to tell most students.
The university cannot guarantee you a good future or a career: Expressly not stated anywhere in our student hand-out but we should have known that the university serves as an accreditation body but not a job giving institution.
Our respective field of study gives us a career path and jobs position available or better still define it only. The fact that we somehow struggle for good place to sit when the respective half o’clock hit, for our lectures, just proves that the job market is full of competition for limited job offers and existing job position.
Have you ever thought about the number of graduates produced every year? And will they meet the existing job positions? However, we never came to tertiary necessarily in order to get a job in future but making a living out of solving prevailing problems in the society, developing new ideas and job positions to suit ever-changing preferences of the society we find ourselves in.
You are competing with dozens of other students who haven’t gotten responses either. Make yourself stand out by not giving up as well as individually create our job position rather than seeking to occupy a job position because a person’s job satisfaction is jointly dependent on the characteristics of the individual. The university we find ourselves indirectly add or shape our values and personality traits.
The greatest opportunity the university offers us isn’t only the honouring of a degree but also serves as an eye opener to us. How many of us know that the number of followers we have to our twitter page can secure us a job?
I ask so how many acquaintances or perhaps friends were we able to make on campus? A significant number of people we meet on campus, we will never know might be our bosses, in-law or better still “your better half” in future. So we shouldn’t be shocked in an interview when we are asked how many twitter followers we have. Not because they want to find out how serious or fully attentive you would be at your work place but HOW MARKETABLE YOU ARE OR HOW WELL YOU WILL SERVE AS A BRAND AMBASSADOR OR SELL THEIR PRODUCT TO THE PUBLIC.
Not everybody will have the generally most appreciable classes of honour on the graduation day. And even not all of us will even secure a job with it. Wish I could lie about this. The undergraduate degree we seek or have, unknowingly, serves as a platform or seemingly a fundamental basis, but not entirely a determinant of who you are and what you can become.
A certificate cannot make us honourable if we failed to go beyond the paper. To crown it all, what PR look out for isn’t only the degree but the personality behind the certificate.
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