Stakeholders from different professional sectors have commended Global Interns Company for its Career Connect Series workshop.
They described the initiative as apt for students and would help to bridge the career knowledge gap experienced before or after a chosen career path.
The worksubscribers
: Career Planning and Internship Opportunities is being organised for students in senior secondary, fresh high school graduates as well as undergraduates.
It is scheduled to hold on Tuesday August 22, 2017, at The Incubator, 7/8, Chief Yesuf Abiodun Way, City of David road, Oniru, Victoria Island.
Chief Executive Officer, Ideasvibe Media, Mr. Caesar Keluro, explained that Career Connect Series is an ample platform to discuss new paradigms, technologies, cultures that are altering our workplace and our society.
He noted that with the ever-evolving and competitive job market, career path is more about being adaptive in this digital age and understanding the skills in high demand, and those facing potential extinction.
“Kudos to Global Interns Company for bringing this up in this age of disruption,” he commended.
A legal practitioner and parent, Mrs Bello Geraldine, said the workshop was a welcome development, given that lots of students do not know what they are doing.
She suggested that the initiative should be taken to the grassroots where career choice mistakes are mostly made.
Geraldine maintained that making wrong choices and being stereotyped had to do with their parents that should be educated.
“They are the best people to be educated as children follow their dictates,” the lawyer stated.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of Onestopmotivate, Mr Femi Adetayo, the workshop is a good initiative that students need in this present era.
He described it as unique and Global Interns Company should be commended for this uncommon initiative.
Intending participants who have registered are excited even as they described the workshop as an appropriate forum to get feedback on career-related questions as their studies progress.
Chief Executive Officer, Global Interns Company, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Modupe, noted that the overall objective was to provide guidance in career choices whilst creating opportunities that will grow the career through work experiences.
“We are making possible ‘the transition of knowledge from the professionals back to the students’ with an intention to nurture”, she said.
She further affirmed that the general students’ and parents’ excitement towards the upcoming workshop was an indicator of its relevance.
According to her, the workshop would help participants to understand the know-how of career planning through engaging sessions that would offer feedback on Career Frequently Asked Questions.
Features of the workshop will also include experts’ viewpoints on “Technology in diverse career choices” and “Career of this Age.”
Modupe added that her organisation, through the workshop is focussed on helping students better understand how internship can build and enlarge their career aspirations.
Global Interns Company is a student-centred organisation connecting college and high school interns to rewarding internship jobs and volunteering programmes in Nigeria and Ghana. It also provides professional and sound career advisory services to all its student subscribers
