New Horizons plans national job fair
Leading Information Technology Professional training institutions firm, New Horizons, is to organise job fair and IT seminar, which will focus on tapping contemporary job opportunities for people in Africa
The event will feature the major technology firms including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, EC-Council and New Horizons coming together to discuss the latest trends in IT and how it affects Africans as a whole, but more importantly, how individuals can benefit optimally from the numerous IT opportunities.
The epoch making event will take place at three locations across the country: namely Lagos, Ogun and
The firm said the event which will take place on the 18th of October 2008 would teach participants about actionable steps to take towards improving their professional skills thereby making it easier to get the jobs of their dreams.
It added that as a result of this, top recruitment companies such as People Prime, IRIS Consulting, Michael Stevens, and Clement Ashley Consulting would feature in the event
The Co-founder of EC-Council University, Mr. Sanjay Bavisi, creators of programmes such as Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator, Master of Security Science-MSS, and MBA E-Business will be in attendance to discuss the importance of e-business to national growth and career development.
New Horizons said at event, participants would have the opportunity to meet with the recruitment firms to discuss their career aspirations, the needed steps to take to achieve their goals and job opportunities in the Nigerian employment market. They will also get to know the top paying companies in the country, good universities they can attend on a reasonable budget abroad for their postgraduate programmes as well as available scholarships they can tap into to sponsor their schooling.
The Managing Director of New Horizons Mr. Tim Akano, said this new event was being organised because of the unprecedented turn out of participants at the first one which attracted more than 10,000 people.
He further said that people had been calling in, writing letters and emails, beckoning on the organsation to put together another job fair, not only in Lagos, but in other states and that is why the firm is putting together a bigger job fair. He added that they were expecting upwards of 30,000 people to come for the event.
He drew attention to the deplorable situation of unemployment in the country and the need to address the situation with pragmatic and long lasting solution. He said the former Minister for Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwelisi, and the present CBN Governor Mr. Charles Soludo said that more than 70 per cent of Nigerian youths were either unemployed, unemployable, or underemployed and if the situation is not reversed Nigeria will soon become a nation of criminals. He said the effect of unemployment is deeply been felt in the society as the rate of crime have risen to alarming proportions and the only solution to it is to provide the right skills to people so as to rise above the situation and live more prosperous lives. He explained that ICT is the area in which skills are needed in the world today and those who strive to acquire these skills will be better for it.
The event will feature the major technology firms including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, EC-Council and New Horizons coming together to discuss the latest trends in IT and how it affects Africans as a whole, but more importantly, how individuals can benefit optimally from the numerous IT opportunities.
The epoch making event will take place at three locations across the country: namely Lagos, Ogun and
The firm said the event which will take place on the 18th of October 2008 would teach participants about actionable steps to take towards improving their professional skills thereby making it easier to get the jobs of their dreams.
It added that as a result of this, top recruitment companies such as People Prime, IRIS Consulting, Michael Stevens, and Clement Ashley Consulting would feature in the event
The Co-founder of EC-Council University, Mr. Sanjay Bavisi, creators of programmes such as Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator, Master of Security Science-MSS, and MBA E-Business will be in attendance to discuss the importance of e-business to national growth and career development.
New Horizons said at event, participants would have the opportunity to meet with the recruitment firms to discuss their career aspirations, the needed steps to take to achieve their goals and job opportunities in the Nigerian employment market. They will also get to know the top paying companies in the country, good universities they can attend on a reasonable budget abroad for their postgraduate programmes as well as available scholarships they can tap into to sponsor their schooling.
The Managing Director of New Horizons Mr. Tim Akano, said this new event was being organised because of the unprecedented turn out of participants at the first one which attracted more than 10,000 people.
He further said that people had been calling in, writing letters and emails, beckoning on the organsation to put together another job fair, not only in Lagos, but in other states and that is why the firm is putting together a bigger job fair. He added that they were expecting upwards of 30,000 people to come for the event.
He drew attention to the deplorable situation of unemployment in the country and the need to address the situation with pragmatic and long lasting solution. He said the former Minister for Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwelisi, and the present CBN Governor Mr. Charles Soludo said that more than 70 per cent of Nigerian youths were either unemployed, unemployable, or underemployed and if the situation is not reversed Nigeria will soon become a nation of criminals. He said the effect of unemployment is deeply been felt in the society as the rate of crime have risen to alarming proportions and the only solution to it is to provide the right skills to people so as to rise above the situation and live more prosperous lives. He explained that ICT is the area in which skills are needed in the world today and those who strive to acquire these skills will be better for it.
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