Graduation from college versus possession of skills and experience

Is college education important or not?

Graduating from college is considered the most usual way to look for great careers in the future by some folks. In contrast, other people suppose soft skills and experience are much more important. In my opinion, the latter statement is totally on point and needed to spread to a wide audience.

The first thing I want to mention is the fact that most college graduates in this day and age lack general skills to survive in the workplace, especially communicating and problem-solving abilities. for example, messing up or stumbling words when dealing with customers after receiving orders from their direct managers are quite common in this case. And without experience to back up, there is a high chance they do not know how to handle issues which are also leading to the dropping point in working performances. Therefore, only the university certificate is not going to save them the day.

The second significant factor is that not having any experience straight out from their schools is wholeheartedly off for many companies when all the job descriptions nowadays require a minimum time of working somewhere, whether it is a part-time or full-time job. So if the resumes of potential candidates involve only the ''paper'' which is proved that you graduated from a random college to the interviewers then get ready to face the reality of being jobless, not even mention the good high paying job that everyone is desperately looking for no matter how qualified they are in terms of skills and experience.

The last thing is to check the unemployment rate annually, it is only increasing day by day when students tend to be more well-educated compared to previous generations. Does it not bring a question?

To sum up, college is not the ultimate trump card to get jobs that make six figures. it can be rendered worthless now when the whole college stuff is just merely business at this point. There are thousands of students graduating each year and looking at the number of unemployment can lead us to a bigger picture.

The prompt in question uses a comparative discussion + personal opinion format based on the following discussion:

Completing university education is thought by some to be the best way to get a good job. On the other hand, other people think that getting experience and developing soft skills is more important.

There is no comparative discussion represented. The personal opinion justifies only the writers perspective of one side as opposed to the personal opinion based on each public opinion. The writer wrote a good essay and could have gotten a great score, if the scoring were based on the prompt deviation that the writer created. Since the discussion does not follow the scoring expectations, this work may not get a passing score.

@Holt
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