This text covers some of the major topics involved at the interface between tertiary education and graduate unemployment on the one hand and psycho- social characteristics demographic characteristics and entrepreneurship as a possible solution on the other. The topics include: self employment seeking behaviour, school curriculum outcomes, personality trait, gender rolestereotype, institution type and sex. Abam Arikpo has been a senior lecturer for ten years. Active in teaching, human resource development, and research, Abam is well-known for contributions towards understanding, and improving curriculum planning and development at the use and inference of contemporary labour market situations. He was previously Head of Department of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.