Unemployed grads in Malaysia (What really went wrong)

It is indeed troubling to learn that tens of thousand of our local graduates are walking aimlessly in their road of careership. It is even more troubling that this is happening in a country where the economy is blooming, and networks of industries and companies are mushrooming, particularly in big cities like Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Bharu.

Of course, this scary irony has magnetized another tens of thousands of reasons and opinions in trying to answer the big question: "What really went wrong?" And in the process of doing so, blaming becomes the ultimately tool. To date, almost everyone and everything possible to be blamed has received it. The government, academic institutions, the unemployed grads themselves, human rights, religions, the media...and the list goes on. And since every form of human is unique, all answers are both right and wrong, to be fair.

One of the most accepted arguments is that the real problem lies in the employability of today's graduates. Few really has the determination and self-motivation to really pursue during their academic life. Another, also a highly accepted reason, is that local graduates are only academically competent, but lack other soft skills. Finally, there's a belief that local grads are too proud that they would not go for jobs that are incompetent to their scroll.