Challenges in job sectors for fresh graduates in Bangladesh: focused on poor English language proficiency

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that good English language proficiency and getting a job are interrelated with each other. A few studies have been conducted on the challenges that fresh graduates face in their job sectors. Hence, the study aimed to bring out possible challenges that fresh graduates face in their job sectors because of having less fluency in the English language. Most of the fresh graduates who came from Bangla medium institutions, face more problems in job sectors. A qualitative interpretivism research method has been used for conducting this study. The researcher chose a qualitative multiple case study approach where every participant was considered as an individual case. The researcher took interviews of five fresh graduates who just started their job careers. It was a semi-structured interview and every interview was taken through phone calls. The result showed that because of anxiety, lack of self-confidence, fear of mistakes, and nervousness while communicating in the English language are the main challenges that fresh graduates face in job sectors because of less fluency in the English language. The significance of the study is to provide some possible solutions so that might help fresh graduates of ESOL countries like Bangladesh in their future job careers.