given that broad unemployment is much lower among adults with secondary education than among those with primary education or less mismatches seem to be a serious problem for young people with secondary education in a survey among experts on african countries about the major challenges youth face in labour markets found a mismatch of skills between what job seekers have to offer and what employers require to be a major obstacle they were to identify a general lack of skills among job seekers as a major obstacle figure the recruitment and temporary work agencies surveyed reported a general lack of targeted education and frequent major discrepancies between candidates profiles and the skills required for a job