What are the reasons for university leavers’ self-employment There is an increasing number of university leavers who start their own business today, which can be accounted by varieties of reasons. From my point of view, there may be two main causes for this widespread phenomenon. First of all, it is the objective reason. With the development of social in both economy and education, more and more students have the opportunity to enjoy the universities, which is to say that bachelors are really common nowadays instead of as rare as they were in the past. Therefore, as we can imagine, there will be lots of graduates struggling for just one position, which in other words means that the competition for jobs is pretty fierce. So hard as job-hunting is, universities students are considering about building their own business rather than rushing to the job market. Apart from the objective reason of competitive job-hunting, graduates' self-employment also has something to do with their psychology. As we may hear sometimes that university leavers now have much pride or we can call it confidence in a way, which suggests that they prefer to work for their own and act as bosses rather than service to others. With both confidence and energy, they are more likely to try to create their own world and hire others to work for them. All in all, it is really good to see a large number of graduates try to employ themselves. No matter it is because of the competitive job-hunting or their pride.