THE GERMAN Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in partnership with leading online recruitment platform, Jobberman Ghana has held a 2-day job fair for students of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).
Dubbed, ‘Invest for Jobs’, the initiative which is being implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) aimed at promoting job-creating growth of enterprises in Ghana and other African countries by providing a platform for the students to meet and network with businesses across several sectors of the economy.
The event, held on the UPSA campus last Thursday and Friday saw several businesses mount stands on which they displayed their products and services.
Some of the businesses include Harley Reed, a knowledge advisory and insurance firm; telecommunications brand, Vodafone Ghana; ShaQ Express, a fast growing courier and food company that provides nationwide delivery services and PEG water, an asset finance organisation.
Other businesses at the job fair were BIMA, mobile-delivered health and insurance providers; international media and communications outlet, WaxPrint Media Digital Africa; Azubi Africa, a technology impact company; insurance providers, Old Mutual Corporate and Zuberi Ghana, a salary streaming platform.
Anne-Marie Castel-Langefeld Head of Component, Business & Invest, at Invest for Jobs said: “The event aims at sensitising, educating and creating networking opportunities for Human Resource Managers and tertiary education administrators.
This falls in line with the Invest for Jobs’s objective of enabling capacity building and development workshops while ensuring that the target audience is matched with the right candidates to meet the objectives of their business.”
“Therefore, the German Cooperation is pleased to support Jobberman’s initiative with an amount of 564,600 GHS to bridge the gap between academia and industry and to place 300 unemployed by the end of 2021”, she added.
Speaking on the partnership, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jobberman Ghana, Harry Antarakis, said: “This partnership is a groundbreaking feat that dawns the jobs creation ecosystem with the needed insights, capacity improvements and key actions in generating sustainable growth that democratizes employment opportunities and hiring in Ghana. We are very proud to be part of this impact-led initiative”
Over the period of the partnership, the institutions will work to fulfil the set programme objective of providing improved access to innovative, demand-oriented employment facilitation in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises as well as increasing the job creating-growth of Ghanaian and European enterprises in Ghana.
Jobberman Ghana, an online recruitment platform established in Ghana in 2012 to transform productivity in Ghana forms part of the investment portfolio of Ringier One Africa Media with a vision to be Ghana’s most user-centric and transparent career ecosystem, where it connects the right candidates with the right opportunities.
With over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas including economic development and employment, energy and the environment, and peace and security, GIZ works with businesses, civil society actors, and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity.
By Nii Adjei Mensahfio