[ 2016-11-10 ]

Create own jobs: Kufuor to graduates
Graduates from the universities and other tertiary
institutions must find innovative ways of creating
jobs for themselves rather than relying on the
public sector for jobs, former President John
Kufuor has advised.

Speaking at a programme dubbed: ‘A Conversation
on Leadership and the Future of Africa’, Mr
Kufuor said “office employment” is now hard to
find because there are so many graduates coming
out of school searching for the same jobs.

Mr Kufuor urged students and graduates to develop
a “sense of enterprise” as part of measures to
finding a solution to the unemployment problem.

“We’ve come to a point where people think when
you finish school there is a job for you to be
employed. We need to change our minds and become
venturesome. You have finished, you are a
graduate, but if you do not get employment
opportunities don’t sit and put your hands here
like we say in traditional parlance,” he
advised.

“Find a way to keep afloat till when the
employment comes along and this will mean a sense
of enterprise. Don’t think of the big scale.
Whatever little things you can do to keep yourself
in decency because if you are not doing something
sooner or later you will begin to degenerate and
lose your dignity, so even as we know the office
employment is getting scarce and scarcer, there is
still demand around so ask yourself what you can
do until the office you are applying for calls
you…”

Source - Classfmonline

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