I was reading this article last week on young graduates seeking for employment when it struck me that I have once been in that stage before more than a decade ago – and as I will detail later below why I think it sets a good place to start. Back to the article, one of the interviewee applied for over 60 applications, received just under half a dozen back for interviews, and secured 3 job offers. That is a pretty decent stats (3/60 = 5%) in this kind of environment. Another interviewee being interviewed also mentioned that it is uncommon for graduates to apply between 100-120 applications, only to receive one or two job offers back at the end of the day. Another problem which many graduates are facing today is the mismatch of job vacancies and prospects to what the graduates are seeking for. According to the statistics, while the ratio of job vacancies to unemployed persons had begun to trend higher,...