‘Soft skill’ in our grads?

Every media is criticizing our undergraduates do not have ‘soft skills’. The media claims that the reason our graduates unemployed is that our graduates do not know how to communicate with other people, to cooperate with team members, to sell themselves as a product in the real world.

‘Soft skill’, as defined, is the ability to communicate effectively, build rapport, persuade people of your position or ideas without alienating them, get along with a wide variety of people, be an effectively contributor on teams, and lead teams to achieve exceptional results.
‘Soft skill’ for me, is actually the wisdom of life. We cannot learn it from book, maybe we know the theories of it, but it is another thing when we practice it.

The reason our grads lacking this ‘soft skill’ is that our grads are overprotected by all parties, including their parents, schools and also government. Since when finding a job became an national issues? Our nation also suffered a few economic crisis throughout history, but none of our ancestors or seniors or even our parents at that time complained of unemployment. They just tried their best to find a living, doing any jobs that could earn bread on the table.

However, for our grads today, it seems like when they did not earn a living, it is the government’s fault of not creating more posts in government sectors to accommodate them, or the government’s fault of not concern about this issue and let the grads die of hunger in the street.

Hey grads out there, I’m also future grads that might end up jobless. It is not actually no jobs for me out there, but it depends whether you can lower down your criteria for your ‘dream’ job. Many grads are unemployed because they want to work in the government sector (with guarantee life-time job and plenty of incentives) which the government cannot accommodate so many of them. Some of the grads complain of exploited by the employer, paying them less than a diploma or SPM leavers.

My conclusion for this topic is: when you are not eligible of choosing the job, let the job choose you. If there are still jobs, but you do not want work with, it is your problem, not the government’s nor the society’s.