Talent without opportunity is as useless has no talent. Sometimes people end up as unskilled laborers because they had no opportunity to do skilled work.
This is the scenario in most of the developing countries where a vast majority of the population is considered unskilled whereas they have actually been been forced into that state by unemployment or better still the availability of more unskilled than skilled jobs.
In these set ups, it is not uncommon to find a varsity graduate as a fully indulged street vendor. Worst still, sometimes because of the prevailing corruption and mismanagement, an inverse scenario occurs where the unqualified have more access to jobs than than the trained skilled persons. This makes both unskilled and less proficient!
None-the-less, unemployment is the main cause of an increasing unskilled labor in the developing world. Create more skilled jobs and you will be surprised by the turn up of skilled job seekers!
However it is noteworthy that doing an unskilled job doesn't make one an unskilled person!
Albert Einstein summed it up by saying
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
In these set ups, it is not uncommon to find a varsity graduate as a fully indulged street vendor. Worst still, sometimes because of the prevailing corruption and mismanagement, an inverse scenario occurs where the unqualified have more access to jobs than than the trained skilled persons. This makes both unskilled and less proficient!
None-the-less, unemployment is the main cause of an increasing unskilled labor in the developing world. Create more skilled jobs and you will be surprised by the turn up of skilled job seekers!
However it is noteworthy that doing an unskilled job doesn't make one an unskilled person!
Albert Einstein summed it up by saying
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
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