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Challenges facing university/college graduates in competing for official employment opportunities in Tanzania: a case of Dodoma municipality

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dc.creator Emmanuel, Osward Ngasu
dc.date 2019-08-29T08:01:27Z
dc.date 2019-08-29T08:01:27Z
dc.date 2015
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T14:39:56Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T14:39:56Z
dc.identifier Emmanuel, O. N. (2015). Challenges facing university/college graduates in competing for official employment opportunities in Tanzania: a case of Dodoma municipality. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1251
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1251
dc.description Dissertation (MA Business Administration)
dc.description The study was conducted at Dodoma Municipality which is located in Dodoma Region. The study attempts to examine the challenges facing University/College graduates in competing for official employment opportunities in Tanzania. The objectives of the study were to examine to what extent graduates unemployment is the problem in Dodoma Municipality, to identify exact causes makes graduates fail in securing jobs in Dodoma Municipality and finally to understand if there is enough programs and efforts to support graduates from universities or colleges to get official employment in Dodoma municipality. The study adopted cross sectional research design and a sample size of 80 respondents were adopted in the study which implicated all unemployed graduates from various universities and colleges who stay in Dodoma Municipality. Questionnaire and interviews were used to collect data. The scientific Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20 was used in analyzing the data. The study reveals that there are several causes that directly or indirectly lead to graduates unemployment, that some of them are due to poor education curriculum in our country, other relate more to government efforts while other reveal on graduates themselves. The problem has become not only challenging to educated people but its impacts are realized in various aspects in the country. Upon the problem, the study recommended that, the government and other stakeholders should find out any practical solutions to address the problem by encouraging graduates to self- employment, Promote employment facilitation and design different employment stimulus programmes within sectors to curb the graduate unemployment.
dc.publisher The University of Dodoma
dc.subject Graduates
dc.subject University graduates
dc.subject College graduates
dc.subject Official employment
dc.subject Employment post
dc.subject Employment opportunuity
dc.subject Dodoma
dc.title Challenges facing university/college graduates in competing for official employment opportunities in Tanzania: a case of Dodoma municipality
dc.type Dissertation


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