Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) an umbrella organization of employers in the Organised Private Sector of Nigeria in collaboration with Plant Geria has sensitised youths and job seekers on needed employability skills.
NECA which is saddled with the responsibility of providing a platform for private sector employers to interact with the government, labour, communities and other relevant institutions for the purpose of promoting harmonious business environment in a one day sensitisation programme for youths and job seekers in Rivers State presented a job career and employability fair to help in equipping job seekers with the right skill in order to attract jobs.
About two hundred people benefitted from the training themed “addressing youth employability for prosperity”.
Speaking on the major challenges facing job seekers and the potential solutions that can be applied to thrive in the labour market, as well as the need for the training, chairman of NECA, Godfrey Agorom” emphasised on the need for graduates and job seekers to carefully and strategically plan their curriculum vitae CV as this plays a vital role in ensuring if they will get the job they are applying for or not.
“This programme is designed because NECA felt it so much that each year we get complaints of people going for interviews and don’t succeed, unemployment list is stretching high each year so NECA felt we have to put together a programme that will educate the young people on what they need to have to be able to be employed being because being a graduate is not enough for you to get a job there are special skills that you need, secondly you might have all it takes but how you packaged your CV might put a potential employer off if you come to my office and if what’s needed are not on your CV I will set yours aside and look at others that are attractive enough and those are the ones we would invite for interviews.
“This programme is also designed to ensure that as a graduate, a technician, a diploma holder we would give you the exposure you need to make you employable”.
The sensitisation programme which had in attendance various private employers of labours, representatives of the federal ministry of Labour, the state ministry of employment and empowerment also counselled the participants on the needed skills to be equipped with during the job fair as they also vow to continue to work towards finding solutions to the high unemployment rate.
Also speaking the permanent secretary, Rivers state ministry of employment and empowerment, Samuel Eguma, spoke on the needs for job seekers to work on their CVS and there dress sense as this plays a major role if they will be employed or not.
