Assessment of Factors Affecting Employment Situations for Business Stream Regular Program Graduates of Entoto Technical and Vocational Education and Training College
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2007-07
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Addis Ababa University
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This study was designed to assess the factors affecting employment
situations of business stream graduates of Entoto TVET College. The study
was undertaken in Addis Ababa, by taking business stream graduates of
Entoto TVET College. The major sources of data for the study were 208
graduates, 20 employing organizations, 3 deans of the college, 3 guidance
officers of the college, and one official from education bureau of Addis
Ababa. Responses were categorized and inserted in to the SPSS and then
frequency count, percentage, weighted mean, rank order and T-test were
employed. The results of the study generally revealed that large number of
graduates were unemployed. Moreover very small numbers of graduates
were self-employed and employed in different sectors. Lack of labor
market infonnation and vocational guidance service for graduates were
observed. It was identified that the main causes of graduates
unemployment were 1) constraints in finance,2) lack of confidence and
management ability 3)the loose connection between employing
organizations and the college, 4) limitation in practical skills, and above all
absence of labor market infonnation system. The points recommended
were, providing financial support schemes for graduates to encourage selfemployment,
enable trainees to develop self-confidence, strengthening the
relation between employing organizations and the college, and provision of
labor market infonnation for trainees
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