Exploring The Factors Affecting Employability.

Abstract

The increasingly competitive world makes it critical for graduates to get employed, stay employed and grow in the career that they choose. The purpose of this study is to explore the problem of employability of youth in India with a study limiting its focus on lawyers. The missed connection - between the universities, students and employers - is seen as the problem for India to have an employability crisis among the recent graduates which the demographic dividend of the country. The problem of educational inflation and change in the purpose of education is discussed to reach the root cause of the issue. The purpose of education has been demeaned to qualification orientation as a method to gain employment. Various instances of millions of people applying for very few vacancies justifies the problem of employability. This research shall engage in the mismatch in the requirements for getting a job demanded by employers and the attributes and skills possessed by the students who are the prospective candidates for these jobs. The research includes secondary data, primary data using survey and interviews. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to analysis the expectations of the recruiters and the candidates. The research also dwells into the social aspects affecting unemployment levels in India using the Census data. The scope of the study is educated unemployment with a focus on the field of law. The research suggests a development policy for the lawyers to resolve the problem of employability.