IN today’s society we are being faced with an ongoing issue of students finishing secondary and tertiary educational backgrounds and are equipped for the world of work but are not gaining success in achieving a quality job that matches their qualification. Young adults like me today who finished a Diploma at University and have a strong want and need for a specific job in the course you have studied but are not getting through with anything for numerous reasons. First of all, whenever applying for a job at a bank, school or institute, I am faced with numerous reasons why I cannot have it. One reason is that whenever I leave these places I subsequently find out someone else got the job. It is not what you know my friends tell me. It is who you know.
I applied for a position as a bank clerk at a particular branch in Corriverton before two other girls went in and applied. Before I knew it, I was not chosen and the other two were because it is rumored all around the area that they had to do certain things with the manager in order to get the job. Isn’t it obvious that many male managers are blackmailing females in order to get a job at a place they are employed as well and do not own the entire company or branch but are being self dominating?
Women need to hold on to their pride and self-respect in order not to give in to trash and do the right thing of saying no and that a better job will await me if not now but in the future. It will certainly end sexual harassment in the work environment by not giving in to stupid favours the boss would ask you to do and you should report them and do not ignore the advantage they were taking out on you because it will continue and never end.
I will be 22 years old, and I have been applying since I was 17 years old that means for five long years now. Looking for a good job seems to be really ridiculous when you think about it and it is all because of the board system in Berbice, Guyana. I went through the school board of a particular secondary school located in my village area of 63 and have been denied a job on several occasions because they do not want to give me  a job because my parents own a small scale business but the building is magnificent meaning we “GOT MONEY.” Not because you see someone has a fancy concrete building or house it means that the person is rich and anyway that is her parents business and not hers. She has to start from scratch, her own life by working and saving to build a future for herself and the family she will have in the future. She may have other siblings so she may not inherit anything from her parents and anyways that’s her business and not yours to think about.
Also, when someone has a business and the public is not supporting it that is the reason why it is running on a small scale and you do not know how these people have to struggle to send their child to university and you have no idea how these people survive and if they paid out for their fancy place as yet, you should not jump to conclusions that the people “GOT MONEY.” As they say, things are not as always as good as they look.
Also I lately applied for a job through the same board system at an institution in Corriverton. I came across the same response, the principal likes me because I am a pleasant individual and have a sound educational background to support me, but the others in charge in the board do not want to give me the job because they just don’t like me, and want to see me punish and crawl on the ground and never walk the life of success, wanting someone else to get the job even though I applied first because they know what assets my family have and they say, “Oh she got too much to get,” and other low mentality reasons that go through their minds, in accordance with their quality and nature of thinking.
Creating more jobs as in building new businesses through public or private sector or merging a partnership agreement between them which would boost the economy and open employment opportunities for all young adults but also creating employment in organisations that already exist by hiring the first person that comes to you who would suits the position and who is qualified enough and also making room for more new staff in a company and getting rid of the old ones who are collecting pension are great ways to advance the country and its people. On September 9, 2010, BBC World News there was a report that 451,000 people are jobless in America and to correct that problem President Barrack Obama gave a speech mentioning he will encourage the private sector to open businesses by cutting down on their taxes, and offering them interest free loans from government that would boost the economy and create employment at the same time which will allow them to pay back their loans in no time. This is a great idea to which the Government of Guyana should adopt because by offering interest free loans to small scale businesses or to young UG graduates.
There is a  law here in Guyana that you are only allowed to be employed at a workplace until you reach the age of retirement but I see that there are old ones still working and collecting pension, wanting money from both sides and are not giving the younger generation a chance.
I have no idea how these pensioners could still be working at a business that needs new fresh minds to open more different avenues towards the business and are there taking up the position when we should open it to the younger generation who finished school and are looking rigorously for a good job. Young adults are desperate for employment in order to survive and to pay for their education and also to improve their way of life. Everyone wants to live a good life, especially if you know you studied for it and want to reach the pinnacle of success in life by achieving your goals. Like in the Bible you are running the race of perseverance that Paul encourages us to do, to believe, have faith and strive for success. When I say a good job, I mean quality work and not a labourer’s job, since you studied for it and deserve it and a labourer’s job anyone can do since you just need to be trained the skill and do not need a necessary high standard education for that. We need more job creation in the work environments that are already existing and not favoritism, spite, assault, bribery and other unnecessary activities that usually go on and are currently exploiting our employment sector. If Guyanese can learn to live a clean life without adding in the political life of getting rid of someone or overthrowing them because we do not want to hear the truth and live a good clean life and follow the rules of employing someone in the right manner and not getting personal with that person by asking them for favors or bribes it will be a better living standard out there. We can make a change for a better way of life by starting today.