Summit for Job Seekers Holds
Mary Ekah
Following the high rate of unemployment challenge in Nigeria, a recruitment firm in the country, Gidijobs, in conjunction with Poise Graduate Finishing Academy (PGFA), is putting up a job fair in Lagos on December 7 aimed to equip and get jobs for young people.
Speaking recently in Lagos, Co-founder of Gidijobs and Managing Director of Poise Graduate Finishing Academy (PGFA), Asher Adeniyi, said: “We have discovered that there are so many people out there still looking for jobs so we want to get jobs for them and also bring employers together to offer people jobs as well as let people know why they are not getting these jobs.”
Accordingly, the job summit aims to transform graduates and young professional into employable people, making it easier for employers to identify them, adding that people can register on the firm’s website Gidijobs.com/jobfair to be part of the summit.
He stated further that although the job fair scheduled to take place today at 277 Babs Animashaun Street, off Bode Thomas Street, Surulere in Lagos is opened to the public, and would offer preferential treatments to the students of the Poise Graduate Finishing Academy.
“The summit brings together both academic corporates leaders as well as various speakers. We will have a summit where everybody will discuss and then bring about an interjection between what is happening in the education and business sectors as well as what the government is doing about the unemployment situation in Nigeria, and that is why we have tagged the programme, ‘Preparing for Future Work’.
“We also know that a lot of present and past jobs have been replaced by machines. So we also want to talk about what the future is for our youths. Are we preparing them for the future? What is the future for semi-skilled people? And what particular skills do people who are educated need for the future? What are the things that people in the job market need to think about and how can they prepare themselves better for the future?” He asked.