{"id":52758,"date":"2016-03-08T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52758"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:21:42","slug":"graduates-looking-for-goverment-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/08\/graduates-looking-for-goverment-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"GRADUATES LOOKING FOR GOVERMENT JOBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Give us govt jobs<\/p>\n

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Ceylon Today Interviewed the media spokesman for Centre for Graduates, Anuruddha Wickremearachchi. He stressed that in 2012, graduates were recruited to the public service as development officers and since then no graduate was recruited to the public service. There are nearly 32,000 vacancies in the public service. Most of the vacancies are for teachers. However, the government had not taken measures to fill the vacancies with unemployed graduates<\/em><\/p>\n

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How do we rationalize the argument of this media spokesman regarding \u00a0his demand for state jobs for all graduates ? The country has been very generous in giving free education in schools and in Universities and is it fair for them to further depend on government jobs?<\/p>\n

Hell no!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

I did a degree in Petroleum Exploration and Production in Russia and I was told by then minister Subasinghe that there are no jobs for in Sri Lanka .He is the one who was responsible in putting oil into an exploration well in Mannar and boasted that there will be Oil during eve of the General Election in the same way one of the ministers in the previous \u00a0government boasted about giving a oil barrel as a dowry for each female getting married in the family !!!!!<\/p>\n

I went to the West looking for a job and they employed me with open arms and if I kept complaining that I have to be employed by the Sri Lankan State I would have been driving taxi today<\/p>\n

Why do these graduates wait for the state to give them employment? They can surely get together form groups who can provide services to private companies in many area like out sourcing Human Resources and preparing salaries etc<\/p>\n

In England the white ( sometimes brown or black) tree cutter calls himeslf Tree Surgeon !<\/p>\n

Plumber whom we call\u00a0 Paippa Baas\u201d calls himself Plumbing Engineer \u00a0<\/p>\n

My TV anteneae technician called himself Satellite Technology Engineer !<\/p>\n

Actual surgeon is not called with title Dr but Mr !!!!They do not mind<\/p>\n

One of my good friend who retired as an Air Vice \u00a0Marshal told me that even a fitter of airplane equipment should have a degree and training and they call him \u00a0an Aircraft Engineer\u201dotherwise they will never allow him to even a touch a spanner !<\/p>\n

We need to be more sensible .They should train themselves \u00a0to be Welding Engineers\u201d rather than a simple Welder ,Fitting Engineer rather than a fitter ,then the society will recognize them<\/p>\n

They are also accepted in their families to marry their daughters<\/p>\n

BA graduated in Arts expect to be junior executive in the state sector .Why can\u2019t they train to be a leader of a team of his own class and form a company and offer their services to private companies<\/p>\n

They go to University on state funds ,go on demonstrations get frequent baths from water cannons used by police and become more and more anti establishment<\/p>\n

I visit many government offices, state banks, Authorities where they are employed and they do not perform their duties even for the salary they get<\/p>\n

What they should do is learn to speak and write in English fluently and I am sure private sector will grab them<\/p>\n

Some Engineering Graduates and some doctors who studied in English cannot speak or write English for some reason<\/p>\n

Do not wait for the bankrupt state to provide you jobs<\/p>\n

Find a way to get self-employment or attach a skilled training and pre prepared to work in any field<\/p>\n

During our times until we get a reasonable job we used to wash plates and even paint train bridges in the night<\/p>\n

Let us be more sensible<\/p>\n

As a final resort become politician from younger days and learn and train to steal ,kill,harras,blackmail ,rape and still behave like saints , and you will be driving a Montero in no time<\/p>\n

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera Give us govt jobs Quote Ceylon Today Interviewed the media spokesman for Centre for Graduates, Anuruddha Wickremearachchi. He stressed that in 2012, graduates were recruited to the public service as development officers and since then no graduate was recruited to the public service. There are nearly 32,000 vacancies in the public service. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}