Several students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) turned up for the third edition of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Career Fair held at the Great Hall on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, under the theme “Strategic Positioning For The Job Market”.
The fair is one of the core objects of the Education and Training Unit of GNPC Foundation which is geared at presenting to the students career opportunities and preparing them for the job market.
The event was held with support from CBG, Republic Bank, StarLife Assurance, AIC, Prudential Bank, SRSF *718*50#, GCB, Ecobank, Broad Spectrum, GIPC, EducationUSA, Colgate and Carisca.
Facilitators for the event were drawn from KNUST, GNPC, and other Corporate and Business Organisations. The presentations centred on topics such as “Identifying your Career”, “Design Thinking for Positive Change in Career Development,” “CV writing”, “Emotional Intelligence”, and “Financial Management”.
At the start of the event, Madam Selina Angmor delivered the purpose of gathering in a competent fashion.
The Vice Chancellor of KNUST, Prof. Rita Akosua Dickson presented the keynote address with full of insignia and a high level of magniloquence. She highlighted the essence of a career fair which included open up job options, networking opportunities, learning how to present your professional side, landing a job or internship, brushing up on your skills, get comfortable, among other things.
The address of the Executive Director of GNPC Foundation, Dr Dominic Kwesi Eduah which was presented for and on his behalf by Dr Caroline Aggrey-Fynn, the Head of Education and Training Unit of GNPC Foundation touched on the following; that in a world where jobs were limited, it was essential that young people strategically positioned themselves to take advantage of the opportunities around.
The foundation was looking forward to engaging with some institutions in every region to help prepare students for the job market even before they graduate. The first career fair by the foundation was held at the Takoradi Technical University(TTU), the second one was at the University of Cape Coast(UCC) and the third edition was at KNUST.
This is an integral part of GNPC’s Corporate Social Investment(CSI) across the length and breadth of this country.
That GNPC had been socially responsible through its foundation, saying it had impacted the lives of many Ghanaians with social intervention programmes and many initiatives and skills improvement themes.
She added that students must value their personalities and re-adjust in relation to the kind of courses they were reading in order to meet companies’ and various institutions’ standards and expectations.
She stressed that body corporates did not so much value certificates anymore but rather the personalities of employees saying it was, therefore, necessary that students adjusted themselves to meet the standard of their preferred courses and companies.
Corporate bodies and individuals are interested in the quality of personality because it is human beings that transform institutions and not certificates.
Other speakers also displayed physical presence and intellectual stamina on the other subject matter related to the theme.
The participants were grateful to GNPC and its partners for organising such an insightful and knowledge-based event.
