While the opportunities for male and female adolescents with an intermediate training qualification for finding a placement are largely similar, female adolescents with a maximum of a lower secondary school-leaving certificate find this significantly more difficult than the male comparison group.
Prospective parents find that, however impeccable their qualifications for parenthood, finding a baby depends mostly on making themselves known.
A sizeable minority of students -- 15 to 20 per cent in many countries -- leave school without the qualifications necessary for finding and keeping a job.
The same qualifications apply to finding suitable recipes online.
Our results suggest that higher education dropouts without pre-tertiary vocational qualifications have more difficulties finding a job, compared to dropouts with pre-tertiary vocational qualifications.
"Because of my qualifications, I have difficulty finding a job when I'm competing with younger, less experienced teachers (ie. cheaper) in a time where the economic climate pushes school systems to cut expenditures wherever possible," writes one disgruntled teacher.
An overwhelming proportion of the workers were natives, who could be expected to have advantages over immigrants with similar qualifications and age in finding a new job.
Getting professional qualifications approved is expensive and finding good jobs takes time.
GCSE exams are in need of a complete overhaul, the head of England's qualifications watchdog has admitted, after finding that a quarter of headteachers do not expect their pupils' grades to be accurate this summer.
Your People: Forget Qualifications Ken Oboh offers advice on finding the right people: "In our hiring, we've never looked at what the individual has in terms of formal qualifications; we've always looked for people who love the Internet and have a passion for building an online business".
