The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has opened the Ghana Job Fair 2022 in Tamale in the northern region.
The intervention is a private sector led initiative that seeks to build the employability of job seekers in the fast-transforming employment space.
The Ghana Job Centre also aims to promote networking between jobseekers and industry players and potential employers by highlighting the Government of Ghana’s employment efforts to stakeholders in Ghana.
Organized on the theme “Connecting talents and opportunities”, the 2022 edition is a collaborative response by the German and Ghanaian governments towards the menace of youth unemployment in the country.
The Northern Regional Director of the YEA, Mr. Haruna Mohammed said 27 out 34 companies ranging from Manufacturing, Private Security, Construction, Insurance, Agro-processing, Agri-forestry and Transport participated in the fair on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
He disclosed the 27 companies advertised a total number hundred and thirty two (132) jobs from the various sectors.
In addition, the YEA Director noted 14 other companies joined the fair through a virtual conference and also advertised 35 jobs for employment.
Mr. Haruna said, “Somewhere 28 October last year, we had the YEA Job Centre that organized the job fair including career guidance and capacity building where we seek to connect jobseekers and employers as one of the facilitating roles the Youth Employment Agency has been established for in order to move the youth from the state of unemployment to employment”.
“As a result of that, we created this platform as a stop-gap where we would be able to stop recycling unemployment so that we give employment opportunities in the form of permanent nature with companies that ready to support the youth of Ghana” he added.
Meanwhile, the GIZ Ghana Head of the Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration, Mr. Benjamin Woesten, in his remarks said “The German Government contributes to employment promotion in Ghana as a measure to help curb dangerous and irregular migration among the youth in Ghana in line with outlined programmes of the Government of Ghana”.
He noted part of the mandate of the Ghanaian-German Centre is to promote economic prospect by helping people to find successful businesses and job opportunities in order to make a living here in Ghana.
“We’re partnering the government to do that and every development partner that we have. The Youth Employment Agency is also doing a laudable initiative to support the youth to find jobs; we reached out to them, engaged them in order to look at cooperation opportunities and we found that they have also been doing the Job Fair last and that’s why I have partner, bundle the resources so that we can increase our fire power and deliver better and more to the people of Ghana” he stated.
