Factors Delaying Graduate Employment in Tanzania the Case of Morogoro Municipality

Authors

  • Petro S. Kidede  Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Computational Sciences, College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
  • Benedicto Kazuzuru  Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Computational Sciences, College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

Keywords:

Employment, Time to Employment

Abstract

This study was set to examine individual factors among the universities graduates which could delay one's employment irrespective of the situation on the ground. The study examined the influence of a graduate area of residence( urban versus rural), gender, access to information, GPA, type of education (science versus art) and working experience on time it takes a graduate to be employed. The study was done in Morogoro Municipality involving 84 graduates from different clusters of working offices (Banks, Polices, Insurances, Railway Company, etc.) Data were collected through the dissemination of questionnaires among the sampled graduates. Analysis of the data was done using survival analysis. The study findings indicated that access to information, female gender, residing in town after graduation, having good GPA, studying Art or Business subjects and having a previous working experience are associated with getting job quickly than otherwise. The study recommends to the government and other stakeholders to advice the universities to develop curricular which connects to the current job market as well as creating job market centers/agents who would connect graduates with employers and sensitize females to join universities much as they have a high prospect of being employed.

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2017-12-31

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Volume 3, Issue 8, November-December-2017

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Petro S. Kidede, Benedicto Kazuzuru, " Factors Delaying Graduate Employment in Tanzania the Case of Morogoro Municipality, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 3, Issue 8, pp.889-895, November-December-2017.