Dhaka, May 20 -- A couple of million people, including a significant number of general graduates, enter Bangladesh's job market each year. Still, employers struggle to recruit them, especially for technical jobs, due to structural mismatch in education systems, speakers said at a programme on Tuesday.

According to them, the primary solution lies in diversifying the education system towards vocational training as well as re-skilling graduates to meet the specific demands of manufacturing, agriculture, and global service sectors.

The speakers further said learning a third language - targeting the global job market - is also obligatory for all technical and non-technical jobseekers to provide a huge number of people with job opportunities....