Every year, at least thirty thousand young adults graduate on various technical, vocational or professional training programmes offered by diverse academic institutions across the nation: universities, colleges, teachers/nursing trainings, poly-techniques, among others.
More so, there is an even greater effort on the part of government and the private sector to expand the opportunities for an increased level of participation or put simply – more opportunities for young or willing members of the Ghanaian learning population to attain training in a host of fields and obtain the relevant qualifications or equivalents.
Barely two years ago, had the country witnessed the transition of some former polytechniques into what are now known as technical universities (the Tamale Technical University – former Tamale Polytechnique; Accra Technical University – former Accra Polytechnique, and a few others).
On the other hand, there is an even greater pace of growth in the number of private institutions in the country as well as an addition of study options both in terms of programmes and the schedules for delivery among the existing private colleges/tertiary institutions.
The Problem
All these and more now make professional/professional training and development attainable at a pace which pushes up the competition in the local job market already absorbing the harsh realities of a global workforce.
For instance, an Information Technology or Business graduate from University of Ghana, BlueCrest College, or Central University in 2017 now has to compete for the same job at Vodafone or Ecobank Ghana with those from India Institute of Technology (IIT), University of California – Berkeley, among others.
Graduate Nursing Trainees from Korle – Bu have to bid for the same placement at ’37 Military Hospital’ with those from private nursing training colleges in the country.
These competition are sometimes fair but the mere reality that accessibility of information as regards recruitment has - to a large extent, been streamlined to sole-sourced outlets makes the word ‘fair competition’ more of a folktale than what is actually in practice.
There is also the increasing need to match the curriculums and choices within the tertiary academic or professional training institutions with the real-time demands of various industries or business organizations.
Hence, one readily finds that while some institutions as the ones mentioned earlier tailor-make their programmes or study options based on the highest level of industry guidance, others with relatively lesser access to 21st-century driven expertise resources trail behind in their efforts to equally train people for various roles in the job market.
Where Corporate Passport Ghana comes in
It is at this point, that the services rendered by the likes of Corporate Passport Ghana becomes necessary. Firstly, in identifying the issues facing companies or corporate entities in their respective markets or industry, the skill and unemployment gaps as well as the strategic problems confronting different aspects of the public and private sector as a means of providing young professionals incentives for studying and developing solutions to them.
How Corporate Passport Ghana achieves this?
Primarily, by providing a link between employers and the unemployed workforce as well as the training stakeholders (colleges or professional training institutions).
Secondly, by organizing forums such as seminars and workshops that brings together the various stakeholders (unemployed youths, employers, policy makers, among others) to engage in open and honest interaction as wel as trainings that shapes the attitude and choices the participants in their quest to acquire or hire relevant skills/human resources for the diverse industry demands.
One of such forums was the recently concluded an OPEN-DAY workshop which was held on the 10th all through to 16th December 2017 in Accra.
It had nearly 500 hundred participants across the during of the programme and feedbacks from the various participants indicated a staggering call for the sustainability of the initiative and more, as a means bridging the rather widening gap between industry demands and the readiness of the existing and potential workforce to meet those needs.
The upcoming workshop will be held on 22ND – 26TH January ,2018
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Author:
Maxwell Pomeyie, is an independent corporate media consultant with over a decade experience from the academia and industry.
Contact:
Maxwell Pomeyie,
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