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Dansyn ISO organises job fair for employers and job seekers in Bolgatanga

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Dansyn Innovation Social Organisation, Dansyn (ISO), a non-profit organization based in the Upper East Region has organized job fair in Bolgatanga, the regional capital.

The job fair aims at complementing government’s effort at addressing the graduate unemployment problem in the country.

This follows an earlier programme organized by Dansyn Innovation Social Organization with funding support from Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works Project, World Bank and Ministry of Communication in June 2020 this year trained many youth in the areas of Mobile Apps and  Web  Development through the support of the Ghana Tech Lab in Accra.

About 20 beneficiaries in the Upper East Region were trained in web development by Dansyn ISO in partnership with MasterCard Foundation, the World Bank, Ministry of Communications, Ghana and Ghana Tech Lab, to help them to become web developers and to market their products to the wider community using the internet.

The Bolgatanga 2020 Job Fair which brought together employers and job seekers and sponsored by Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works Project, World Bank and Ministry of Communication, afforded the opportunity for the employers to share with job seekers the necessary qualities needed for gaining employment.

Among some the of think -thank organizations that attended the programme included the Ghana Tech Lab in Accra Ghana National Association of Entrepreneurs, Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU), Cyber Ghana , a non- profitable Cyber Security Organization.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dansyn Innovation Social Organization, Mr  Daniel Nang, explained that his outfit decided to bring  the employers and job seekers together so as to help address the challenges of unemployment among graduates.

He indicated that while many of the beneficiaries have gained employment, others are also in incubation with his outfit, stressing ’’all this is to enable the  youth  gain employment and also employ others’’.

The CEO stated that Dansyn Innovation Social Organization, a non-profit organization for sometime now has been supporting youth entrepreneurship with training and skill development in Information Technology to make an impact in the community by enhancing the economic and social status of the people with special emphasis on women.

A cross section of participants

Speaking at the Job fair which was under the theme ‘Creating sustainable employment through digital skills, he disclosed that the job fair hoped to link prospective employees to potential employers.

He observed that the rising youth unemployment situation in the Upper East Region and the entire country Ghana is due to job immobility and the digital skills gaps.

A Base Innovations Leader of Ghana Tech Lab, partners for the Organization of the Job Fair Gabriel Quarshie, expressed the hope that the fair is to help young people leverage on technology to gain decent employment.

For his part, the Laboratory and Network Administrator at the Department of ICT at the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU) Richard Azunre cautioned the graduands to be very mindful about the way and manner they use the social media and hinted that most employers use  the social media as window of employing job seekers.

”Most job seekers don’t  get employment because of the way and manner they conduct themselves through the use social media. The attitudes and behaviuors of many people  are reflected in the way and they chart with friends and others on the social media and their dress codes also counts”, he warned.

He also warned the general public to be very mindful about the way fraudsters use social media to defraud others and announced that the BTU is seeking accreditation from the National Accreditation Council Board to run diploma and degree programmes in Cyber Security and Forensic Studies.

He said the programme which had already established Cyber Security and Forensic Laboratory at the BTU is being funded with the support from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK and Lloyd’s Register Foundation, UK.

He stated that from early next year 2021, the BTU would begin running short courses   in Computer, Ethnical Hacking, Forensic Investigation for local professionals in ICT as well as established Cyber clubs in Junior and Senior High Schools to begin teaching of   young graduates in Cyber Security and Forensic.

Azunre Richard stressed the need for Cyber security issues to be part of radio programming adding the University is engaging some local radio stations to partner with them.

The founder of the Ghana National Association of Entrepreneurs, Dr Winfred Akapanga who took the job seekers through the topic” Marketing and Social Media”, told them that Government alone could not provide all the graduands who are churned out annually.

He therefore admonished them that one of the innovative way of empowering themselves  was through the use of  social media where they could either brand, market or position themselves or products to attract  local and international customers.

The founder who entreated the young graduates to form association and to help market the products of businessmen in the region who do not have the capacity to use the social media to market their products,  indicated that as job seekers they could make a living through that.

Dr Akapanga admonished that, in a highly informational communication technology era, Businesses cannot thrive very well without the deployment of social media and as young graduates, they must take advantage of this trend to create jobs for themselves and others  instead of relying solely on government for jobs, .

Story By : Emmanuel Akayeti

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