Government Recruitment Programme for Unemployed Graduates and Issues: Lack of professional vision, mismatch of skills, and unsatisfied job roles
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Government Recruitment Programme, Graduate Appointments., Graduate Appointments, Lack of Professional Vision, Mismatch of Skills, Unsatisfied Job RolesAbstract
In recent years, following the conclusion of the presidential elections in Sri Lanka, the government has launched an electoral pledge to employ more than 50,000 graduates who had been promised jobs. However, while the effort is laudable, it has run into many problems on the part of graduates, as a result of poor governance decision-making in the public sector, particularly among policymakers. Concerning the graduate government appointment process, graduates are first assigned to the divisional secretariat offices and then recruited to fill government positions. The positions that have been offered are not consistent with the credential level of the applicants, and the positions have been offered without a proper job interview or conversation with the candidate. Therefore, these graduate government positions raise several practical concerns related to the graduate perspective. The sample for the study consists of 20 graduates who have received new government jobs in Sri Lanka. The study adopted the qualitative methods: text analysis, summary and topic analysis, which allowed the researcher to obtain a more complete understanding of the responses. The study has helped raise the questions of graduates' perspectives; Lack of professional vision, skills mismatch, and unsatisfied job roles. Therefore, the study practically contributed to government policymakers adopting the appropriate system and strategies in the Government recruitment programme for unemployed graduates.
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