Applying for a job as a waiter, a bachelor's degree holder was... rejected.
Bachelors who put away their university degrees to work as factory workers, technology drivers, delivery staff, waiters or housekeepers is a story that has been mentioned for a long time. However, it is not easy to find a part-time job. Many bachelors, even those who graduated with honors, were rejected when applying to work as waiters or waitresses...
Many graduates with honors struggle to find jobs (Screenshot).
NMS, a male graduate with a degree in business administration from a university in Ho Chi Minh City, complained: "Everyone says that if you can't find a job, you should work as a waiter to make a living, but I applied to work as a waiter and was... rejected."
After graduating, the young man had jumped from company to company without success. For nearly half a year, he has been unemployed for a long time.
At home with no job and no income, S. fell into crisis. "When you're hungry, you have to crawl on your knees," S. said, after much struggle he had to "lower himself" to find a job, any job would do, as long as... he had money to support himself.
S. applied for a job as a waiter or waitress at a restaurant in the center of District 1 with a salary of 7-8 million VND. The result shocked him when he was rejected with the response that this position did not require a university degree but required professional skills, service skills, and thorough training.
S. also looked for other jobs such as electronics supermarket employee, warehouse employee but was also rejected because of lack of skills, expertise, and experience.
Ms. Nguyen Le Ngan - Managing Director of a fashion system in Ho Chi Minh City said that it is very understandable that graduates applying for jobs as sales staff, waiters, waitresses, and security guards are rejected.
Her company recently received many job applications from bachelors, some with excellent degrees, applying for positions such as waiters, cashiers, receptionists, and even security guards.
Most of these candidates failed because the positions did not require a bachelor's degree but required workers with vocational skills, training, experience in that field, a development roadmap, and career goals.
Furthermore, Ms. Ngan emphasized that every job now requires certain professional skills and expertise. The work of waiters, waitresses, receptionists... people think is simple, but in fact the standards are increasingly strict, requiring many skills, not everyone who wants to do it can do it.
Service profession standards are increasingly high (Illustration: Van Hien).
"I am the director, but now you tell me to go down and sell directly to customers, I can't do it," said Ms. Ngan.
Not to mention, this person thinks that graduates "lower themselves" to find a job with the mentality of doing temporary work when unemployed, working to earn money in the short term, so they lack commitment, work with a coping mentality, and are careless...
It is very difficult for a business to be interested in employees who consider them a "temporary stop", except for seasonal work.
A good degree is an advantage, but it can also be a disadvantage.
Mr. Tran Anh Tuan, Vice President of the Ho Chi Minh City Vocational Education Association, emphasized that this is a period of competition for capacity and high-quality careers. The biggest difficulty for businesses is not the lack of labor but the lack of qualified labor to meet the requirements.
The level here, according to Mr. Tuan, is not a university degree but appropriate working skills.
In many professions, the lower the level of education, the more it is divided into smaller parts. The specialized knowledge may be narrow but the practical skills are deep. A university graduate may have a deep and broad knowledge but may not be good at specific skills applied to specific jobs, so they will not be able to compete.
"Businesses are not foolish enough to hire graduates with salaries that are often higher than those required for jobs that require vocational skills. These employees do not have effective job skills and lack commitment," said Mr. Nguyen Tien Tao, owner of an automobile business in Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City.
Students looking for jobs at a job fair in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: HN).
Mr. Tao said that his company posted a job posting for car washing and maintenance staff and received applications from many graduates. Many of them thought that this was a manual labor job, washing cars, spraying water, and applying soap to make them shiny... to make money. While this is a job that requires employees to be well-trained, professional, have working skills, and go through a long apprenticeship and internship period.
As someone who values learning and degrees, according to Mr. Tao, in many fields and positions, students with intermediate, college, and vocational degrees will have an advantage over students with university and post-graduate degrees.
Mr. Tao created the point of view: "A bachelor's degree or a good degree can be an advantage in the field you pursue, but can be a disadvantage in other fields and segments."
In addition, many people are concerned about the current situation of "inflation" of excellent students. According to statistics at many universities in Ho Chi Minh City, in recent years, the rate of students graduating with good or excellent grades has been increasing, sometimes reaching 90-95%.
A good university degree is no longer as dominant in the labor market as it used to be. The word "good" can sometimes be a barrier, causing many candidates to have illusions, not knowing their true abilities, lacking a modest and progressive attitude...
The important thing about a good degree, according to human resource experts, is whether you are truly good at your profession, have a serious attitude towards work, can do the job and meet the requirements of the labor market.
In Ho Chi Minh City, according to a report in the first 6 months of 2023, there were 27,800 people (accounting for 36%) with university degrees or higher out of a total of 82,500 workers applying for unemployment benefits.
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