Career Counselling, Vocational and Technical Education as Tools for Curtailing Challenges of Youth Unemployment in Nigeria

The phenomenon of youth unemployment has been established to be a major bane in human society as it is characterised with lots of negatives such as brain drain, increase in social vices and a tool for social and political unrest. The paper examines the issue of youth unemployment and looks at potential interventions such as effective career counselling to curtailing the social menace. As part of measures to reduce the alarming rate of unemployment in Nigeria, the recommendations are put forward as strategies to address the societal menace and these include that the government should create an enabling environment for both public and private businesses to thrive and create job opportunities and adoption of sound macroeconomic policies for the promotion of total growth in employment among others. Unemployment has been identified with various social problems in the society as Career counselling and vocational education is considered an important tool to curtail the menace, hence, utmost priority should be given to it right from primary school to prevent misplacement of priority in choice of career among others. The increasing rate of unemployment is worrisome and as such requires pragmatic and holistic approach to curtailing further implications for a conducive, progressive and ideal society to live.