DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES FACED BY THE SOCIOLOGY GRADUATES OF QUAID-I-AZAM UNIVERSITY (QAU), ISLAMABAD

Abstract

Thousands of students end up graduating each year from different universities of Pakistan but only few of them end up acquiring employment opportunities within the country or abroad. The current study is conducted to investigate the socio cultural and politico-economic factors behind the increasing rate of unemployment among the sociology graduates of Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. Employing the structural unemployment approach, data were gathered from the respondents based on their perception of structural factors behind unemployment in the country its impact on their social life. Purposive sampling technique was used to recruit a sample of 144 respondents to gather the data for the study. Close-ended questionnaires were sending among the respondents that contained several questions regarding structural factors of unemployment and impacts of unemployment on the social adjustment of individuals. Majority of the respondents were found as holding the university curriculum as inadequate for providing the youth with sufficient skills to enter in the job market. Similarly, certain other socio-economic variables were unearthed that are found as equally responsible for persistence of unemployment among the sociology graduates of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. The study finds that many sociology graduates do not possess the basic skills required in the market and there is mismatch between their skills and market demands.