By Emmanuel Olorunsola
The Lagos State Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment has encouraged graduates to acquire skills to maximise the opportunity of the COVID-19 pandemic to stay relevant in the labour market.
On Sunday, in a virtual workshop organised by the Ministry, the state Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs Yetunde Arobieke, said job seekers needed to acquire skills in an online workshop and that the nature of jobs has changed globally.
The workshop was themed, ‘Surviving the times: The future of jobs, the new normal for unemployed graduates.’
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According to the commissioner, producing employable graduates with relevant employability skills is important because the labour market is competitive and employers are looking for flexible people with initiatives. She said such people were also expected to possess the ability to undertake different tasks simultaneously, with little or no supervision.
Arobieke also informed the participants that possessing academic certificates is no longer enough to get formal employment.
The commissioner stressed this by saying that “The current model of education, career planning and job searching needs a facelift considering the dynamism in the global labour market. Graduates need to rise and learn new rules of success; this requires being proactive and strategic in thinking,”
One of the resource persons who participated in the workshop, Mrs Damilola James, advised young people to leverage their gifts and talents and become entrepreneurs instead of pursuing white-collar jobs.
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