NBU Hub calls for career guidance centers to be established in schools.

Participants of the No Business As Usual Hub Career Day 2.0 are demanding that the country sees need to establish Career Counseling Centers across all levels of education in the country.

The Career Day Conference is one of the numerous projects undertaken by the EU funded No Business as Usual (NBU) hub with support from the SOS Children’s Village in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti region.

This program seeks to guide the youth on their career path and help them learn about potential career opportunities available in their chosen feels.

Seasoned speakers including career coach and founder of the Fabulous Women Network Ama Duncan and Corporate Trainer Rita Krampah were on hand during Career Day 2.0 to take the youth through career choices.

Other topics that took centre stage during the conference were networking; volunteering; how to latch unto opportunities; howto handle different areas of interest and switching between academic courses of study and desired careers.

Programs Manager at the HUB Daniel Okiti Boama expressed concern several young persons are totally disoriented about their career paths often offering disconnected courses in school.

He told Ultimate News’ Sandra Adade, “We have a trainee who did political science in school but the trainee has been able to veer into electronics and he is doing better and you ask yourself what he was doing in the political studies class. So you could see there is this kind of misfit but this training is offering them that platform and opportunity to realign themselves with what they can do,”

Corporate Trainer Mrs. Rita Krampah called fora nationwide career guidance program that should be instituted at all levels in the country’s education system to guide students to make good career choices

She pointed out that several students are on a lost course because student populations in schools and its attendant pressures on teachers keep increasing making it difficult for teachers to identify and harness talents in individual students.

She added, “In some places, there are private people who set up career guidance offices as businesses and sometimes it is very expensive but within primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, nothing stops the authorities from forming Career Counseling Counsels where the students can easily go there, to source some of this information,”

Participants who spoke to Ultimate News after the sessions were grateful to the organizers for the lessons they had gleaned from the speakers and from the question and answer sessions.

This session also saw successful trainees and graduates from the No Business as Usual Hub exhibit their products and share their experiences to inspire their peers.

By:Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM/By:Sandra Adade

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