Wednesday May 21, 2025|
A career development and recruitment solutions company in Nigeria, Jobberman, has announced plans to train and upskill over Thirty Thousand youths and entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 to 35 who are either unemployed or unemployed in Akwa Ibom State.
The company says the training would prepare the youths to be employable and link them to dignified jobs as well as empower those who want to go into business with requisite knowledge and skills that would help them pull through.
Head, Youth Engagement and Learning Development of Jobberman Nigeria, Innih Ikhide disclosed this on Wednesday during a Jobberman Entrepreneurship and Small Business Course Training held in Uruan local government area of Akwa Ibom which was organized in partnership with The Inspired Decision.
In an interview, Ikhide stated that the training was on two planks, that is, Soft skills and Entrepreneurship or small business development. He highlighted the soft skills training to include personal effectiveness, time management, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, problem solving, CV writing mastery and job interviews.
He said the entrepreneurship and small bussiness course was aimed at equipping participants with tools such as how to write bussiness plan, how to package their businesses, the legal aspect and what to expect in their bussiness.
Ikhide noted that Jobberman came to bridge the unemployment and underemployment gap in Nigeria vis a vis Akwa Ibom and urged the youths to take the advantage of the training which he said is free to prepare themselves for jobs even as he noted that some employers have complained that some youths are not employable.
His words, “Soft skill training is positioned for young people who are job seekers and are looking for opportunity to gain formal employment. We want people to either gain formal employment or use the skills to start up their own enterprise, our expectation is to have about 20 to 30 thousand young Akwa Ibom people to be trained and gainfully employed. We want them to take advantage of this free opportunity, courtesy of Jobberman, together with our partner, Inspired Decision.
“From research conducted, we acknowledge that there is a gap that exist, young people who graduated from university cannot get jobs and that’s also because employers also complain that young people are not even employable, so this project is to ensure that many who come for the training continue to shift their mindset to be resilient to also take advantage of every given opportunity.”
Ikhide revealed that the first phase of the project, which was implemented in other state,s had about 2.3 million young people upskilled, and job opportunities were created for about Five Hundred Thousand (500,000) of the,m expressing hope that the second phase which just commenced and would run till 2029 shall be better.
While thanking Akwa Ibom State government and other partners for their supports, Ikhide announced a future commencement of career fare, a career clinic as well as a forum for people with disability as part of long term plan for the project.
In his remarks, the Uruan local government Chairman, Surv Iniobong Ekpenyong, urged the participants to take the training seriously and ensure they put all that they learnt into practice. He added that such would make them to be positively engaged and not to resort to begging.
One of the participants, Peace Edet, a fashion designer expressed gratitude to the organizers of the training saying that it has opened her minds on how to relate with customers and to write a business plan.
