GMAT Essays (AWA)

"Throughout the last two decades, those who earned graduate degrees found it very difficult to get jobs teaching their academic specialtiesat the college level. Those with graduate degrees from Winner University had an especially hard time finding such jobs. But better timesare coming in the next decade for all academic job seekers, including those from Waymarsh. Demographic trends indicate that an increasing number of people will be reaching college age over the next ten years; consequently, we can expect that the job market will improve dramatically for people seeking college-level teaching positions in their fields."

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The author of above propososition claims that next decade would turn out better for the job seekers as many students would be attending colleges and more job optisions to come up because of this. Although the author displays a high level of optimism to the job seekers, his reasoning seems to encompass at least two problems.

In the first place, it is unclear how increasing number of college goers relates to increasing number of jobs. The author goes further expecting job market in academic sector to increase "dramatically". It is fairly possible that increasing number of students could lead to increasing class strength too. The absense of concrete statistics seems to be the problem

Secondly, the author does not quantify what the increase of student with respect to college strength is expected to be. If the increase , although gradual, seems small in comparison to college strength, expecting a growth in teaching position is a non sequitir. The author needs to reason his argument well in this regard too. It is not clearly understood what kind of University is Winner, what is the student strength and what vareity of courses are taught here. It could well be a university concentrating on Arts where as most job seekers seem to be specialising in science. Hence this aspect , like my above point of contention , seems to lack of data and quantitative approach.

Thirdly, one might wonder the increase in the number of students being a sustained growth. It is highly probable that an increase of students might turn out to be a glitch for a decade, where trainers and teachers could be contracted for a short period, which may not be a very promising situation.

In sum , I would suggest the author to replace his Yellow 'Edward de Bono´s hat' with White one , and start looking at facts and figures , rather than his personal emotions. It would prove way helpful for aspiring academic job seekers to know the future market well.

Thanks in advance