Story: Mary Ankrah
IVORIAN students residing in Ghana have been admonished to show dedication in their studies in order to meet the standards of employment in Ghana.
They have also been advised not to use violent means in their efforts to make it in life but rather believe they could make it through hard work.
The Chairman of the Community of Ivorians in Ghana (CIGHA), Mr Brou Ahoua, gave this advice at the third edition of the CIGHA Career Fair 2012 (last Saturday) in Accra.
It was on the theme: “Tips and Methods Towards a Successful Guidance”.
The career fair was to provide the necessary information to Ivorian students in Ghana to enable them to choose the best career, accredited academic institutions, as well as grant them the opportunity to interact with the representatives of those institutions.
It was also to serve as an exchange platform to help Anglophones, Francophones and particularly workers and graduates to enjoy the range of employment opportunities, develop contact network between professionals and students so that they would understand the corporate needs of companies and training institutions in the country.
Speaking at the career fair, Mr Ahoua said the fair was to equally create a forum for sharing and exchanging ideas and experiences among Ivorians and between Ivorians and Ghanaians; create a consultative body that would promote Ivorian social and cultural activities in Ghana, and foster creativity and develop entrepreneurship.
“We hoped to build the capacities of members, train and develop our youth and contribute to consolidating the long standing friendly ties between Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana”, he added.
In her presentation on the topic, “Integrating into the Labour Market after Training”, the Executive Director of Iiom-West Africa, Ms Mercy Mintah Gyampoh, said there was the need for students to understand that getting employed after school took effort.
Ms Gyampoh enumerated that some of the factors that had led to unemployment in the country included lack of employable skills, growth in population, the lack of understanding of employment by graduates, and the enormous differential between job creation and the students that graduate from the universities.
More so, she disclosed that unemployment rate in Ghana as at September 2008 was 3.6% and therefore students needed to develop their skills well in order to access the corporate ladder. She said they could do that through the three E’s, namely, education, exposure and experience.
“You need discipline and strategy to succeed in integrating into the job market after training.It starts now”, she advised the students.
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