Creating Job Opportunities for Unemployed

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CREATING JOB OPPERTUNITIES

FOR UNEMPLOYED

Name: H.A.D.N.C Seneviratne

Index: S9562

Reg.No: 2008/S/10932

Subject: Macro Economics


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Creating job opportunities for unemployed

Unemployment is a major problem in many countries in the world. Especially its badly

influenced to the developing countries like Sri Lanka. The lack of job opportunities can posegreat problems to the peoples in these countries. Because they have no means of earning living,

the unemployed could face problems in paying rental or mortgages. This may leads

homelessness. Furthermore unemployment leads to problem like illnesses, malnutrition, mental

stress and loss of self-confidence and eventually depression. Also it is a known fact that

unemployment increases the crimes including robberies murders suicides and etc. Therefore

finding a practical solution is a major task for a government in this kind of problem.

Creating job opportunities is the major solution to the

unemployment of a country. Mainly people work under government sector, private sector or self-

employed. Since government has privileges to influence on all three areas, government has amajor responsibility about this unemployment problem. For that, government can implement

various programmes, projects to create job opportunities. These are some of the suggested

solutions which can be useful in finding job opportunities to unemployed in Sri Lanka.

Development of public work programmesMost oftenly public works like road development, cleaning roads, villages and cities, making

public toilets and maintaining them are done by the municipal council or urban council labors.

But I think this limited labor force doesnt fulfill the exact requirement of public works in the

urban and rural areas. Especially in rural areas works like construction of roads need much labor

force. So I think government should implement programmes to specifically public works and

recruit people for these programmes. I think this will be much helpful to poor uneducated people

who suffering from unemployment.

Encouraging people who like self-employment and give them financial aidsPolicy makers increasingly view self-employment in the form of youth entrepreneurship as a

possible solution to the youth unemployment crisis. Experts believe that 20% of the all people

are fit to run their own business (source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-employment). Therefore if

the government can target these people and encourage them to self employment it will create many

opportunities to people who have their own abilities to start business or trades. Especially in this

process people must have some kind of knowledge for self employment. There are many vocational

training institutes found in Sri Lanka which trains people for this purpose. But the problem is peoples

awareness about these institutes is in the lower side. Also there are people who have eager to start their

own business but dont have financial strength. Government gives loans with the help of government

banks (eg: self employment promotion initiative loan scheme (SEPI) by peoples bank) to these people.

But their conditions in the loan contract in bit tougher side which causes not to entitle most of the
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applicants to these loans. Therefore government must focus on these things specially implement well

organized programmes, workshops about self employment. Expand the facilities of the vocational

training institutes and give more publicity about these institutes to the society. Development of the loan

scheme programmes and gives more opportunity to wide range of people who actually believe on self

employment.

Modifying syllabuses of school and higher (university) educations by adding more industryoriented causes and training programmes.

Unlike most of the foreign countries our education has high standards. Even though it has high

standards our syllabuses are heavily based on theoretical aspects. There is a little concern about

practical aspects in these syllabuses. Because of that most of the school children, undergraduates

and graduates have less practical knowledge. So it raises youth unemployment. Especially in Sri

Lanka private sector warmly welcomes very energetic youths who actually have more practical

and general knowledge rather having traditional theoretical knowledge people. Therefore

government must think of this situation and it is their responsibility to create skilled younger

generation with have all round abilities in both theoretical and practical knowledge. For that

government must to research and survey in both government and private sector to identify the

job areas which can expand the job opportunities and create industry oriented courses targeting

those specific fields, then add to school and higher education syllabuses. As an example

University of Moratuwa introduces new degree programme called Transport and logistics

management which has goal to create specialized undergraduates in logistics field. Because

from a research they found that there is a big demand to this logistics field in Sri Lanka. This has

to improve lot more in other universities rather than depending only on traditional courses.

Find foreign job opportunities in other countriesGovernment must talk with the other countries and find job opportunities to our people in those

countries. Still most foreign job opportunities come from middle east but it must improve on other

countries also.( E.g.: recently Sri Lanka had a contract with South Korea and as a results we have

some job opportunities in South Korea).

Give more opportunity to foreign investors to start their business/companies in Sri Lanka.This is one of the best ways to find job opportunities to unemployed in Sri Lanka. Because after

the civil war, more foreign investors likes to invest their money to start their business/companies

in our country than past. Not like our investors, generally these foreign investors have much more

strength to give more job opportunities to people. Also most oftenly their salary levels are much

higher than local company salaries. So government can invite more foreign investors to start their

businesses, companies in our country. There may be practical issues like it may harmful to local

companies which sometimes wont survive in the market. Therefore government can start a

proper programme to this which they can invite foreign investors who actually doesnt badly

influence on local market.( Eg: Most percentage of the IT related job opportunities are offered to

Sri Lankans by global companies like Virtusa and IFS)


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Find about other indirect/unpopular job opportunities for people and concentrate on themAll the above suggestions are about direct job opportunities. But sometimes there can be job

opportunities from indirect ways also. As an example consider the constructing of Hambanthota

airport. It directly influenced on the development of the near areas. Because of that people from

near areas got and will get lot more job opportunities which they never had in past. Also very

few of them know there are so many online job opportunities available in the internet. You can

work from home and earn money. In foreign countries, acceptable percentage of people earn

from the online jobs. Now most of the urban areas covered by lot of internet broad bands.

Internet is no more problem to these areas. So these opportunities can get to Sri Lankans. But the

problem is their awareness and knowledge about these things. So if government can consider

about these job opportunities and give it those to people who have ability to do these kinds of

jobs that will be a great solution to unemployment.

So these are some of the suggested solutions which can create job opportunities to

unemployment. For these suggestions government want to play a big role by giving proper

guidance, aids and on the other hand public awareness about is also very important to get betterresults.

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