Access Nigeria, in collaboration with the World Bank, has concluded arrangement for a two-day National Jobs Fair.
The fair commences September 13, 2012 at the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos.
The event will serve as platform for organisations and potential employers to recruit young, skilled and competent employees into their workforce.
A broad range of employers from various sectors of the economy such as Information and Communication Technology, telecommunications, banking, insurance and the media are expected to participate at the event.
It could be recalled that in 2010, the World Bank-supported ACCESS Nigeria programme conducted a Skills Gap Analysis, which showed a distinct gap between what employers need and what they end up getting.
It was discovered that most youth lack the fundamental skills required to succeed in the labour market.
Such missing skills included communication skills, cognitive skills and computer skills.
This insight led to the formation of the ACCESS Nigeria skills programme.
The programme had, in the last two years, assessed more than 3,000 youth on globally-benchmarked fundamental skills for IT-enabled services economy.
Over a 10-week period, 1007 candidates were trained across five cities: Abuja, Enugu, Kaduna, Kano and Lagos.
The Fair is open to both ACCESS and non-ACCESS trained candidates.
To ensure that this is a continuous and sustainable process, an electronic job information management portal called ACCESS Nigeria Job Information Management System has been launched.
The portal, first of its kind in Nigeria, will allow for periodic data-analysis on labour market’s current status and future projections, thereby filling a gap that is widely felt due to absence of reliable data and information on Nigeria’s job market.
Organisations and potential employees are encouraged to register for the job fair at www.anjims.org.
Interested applicants are expected to register and attend the Fair with their curriculum vitae.
Registration and attendance is FREE for interested employers and candidates.