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While our nation fights the evils to maintain their sacrosanct education system, there is more to worry about now. Soon many students will graduate irrespective of the kind of tests they have given and what they have scored and how they have scored. And then they will be looking at jobs.

So is the jobs scene in our country better now? Last we heard that the companies have started to hire again. This means that this will be a sigh of relief for most graduating students. However, the scene will be divided and now it will be more evident.

This is because when companies start hiring again, they will want to settle for students who are highly qualified which means that they would settle for students who have higher skills and therefore, they would pay them better than the students who are average or have low skill qualities.

The problem is that there will be a portion of the graduating students who would be categorised as the best and many others would fall in the category of the average. Again this is mostly determined by the test scores or grades given at high schools and colleges. So the average students will have to accept whatever they get in terms of pay. It could be so drastic as accepting the low paying job or leaving with no job at all.

Of course some kind of remuneration is always good so with not many options left they would opt for the average pay roll job.

Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

However, it still leaves us with people who lie somewhere in between. They might be good or average but they don’t fit in the extremes. This means they are just good but better than the average and good but not good enough to be really good. What kind of jobs and pay will they be offered? Now settling for something higher is not something that is going to happen and settling for something less than they deserve should not happen.

So here begins the problem of unemployment. These in between people cannot help take a low paying job and they won’t get a very high paying job. The spectrum has no place for them as they just continue to lie in between.

The question is – what do these students do? Many opt for higher studies thinking that once they have an additional degree they will be able to make it to the high paying jobs. Or rather they do go in for interviews at high paying places but they might have to start at scratch which would mean they get the job but they don’t get paid as well as the others. This means they are set back couple of years and have to try real hard at achieving the so-called corporate success.

However, the dilemma continues…