SOME tertiary students in the country are benefitting from a training programme aimed at equipping them with the relevant skills needed on the job market.
The programme is being organised by the Progress Intern and Mentor Institute (PIMI), a non-profit human resource development organisation.
The organisation seeks, among other things, to develop the talents and potentials of the students through professional training, internship and mentorship.
The President of the institute, Mr David Dake, said the training aimed at partnering corporate bodies, universities and other relevant institutions for the identification and development of talented students through its programmes.
He said students were taken programmes such as leadership and self-development, organizational behaviour management, as well as introduction to human resource management and financial analysis.
He explained that students were recruited from the universities in the country to take part in those training programmes on weekends to ensure that they (programmes) did not conflict with their academic activities.
Mr Dake said so far, 500 students had benefitted from the programme, through which they had acquired better attitude towards work, communication skills and the ability to work in a team.
The programme, which is mainly sponsored by Newmont Ghana Limited, has given students the opportunity to learn from their mentors and to work in reputable companies.
Giving a talk on the rolel of mentorship in career development, Mr Maurice Nyarko-Mensah said mentorship was a very important factor in developing one’s career.
He said it was important for students to realise the challenges on the job market in order to develop personal skills to add values that would help them move faster in their career.
Another resource person, Ebenezer Adgetor, a staff of Vodafone Ghana Limited said, with determination, perseverance, constant practice and prayer the students would succeed in life.
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