A 2-day Recruitment and Job fair aimed at stimulating the Ghanaian job market takes place in Accra on 24-25th June 2011 as part of the international HR event dubbed ?Brighter Futures 2011?. Thousands of job seekers, graduates, students, national service personnel, people changing careers, etc are expected to view job vacancies, recruitment and Human Resource services and products on display whiles attending CV clinics and interview workshops to increase their chances of landing that illusive job.
The organizers, OML Africa, said, ?Being the second edition of our flagship event, Brighter Futures 2011, offers a one-stop recruitment solution for job seekers as there will be a specially designed ?Wall of Opportunity? that will serve as a massive job board on which will be displayed lots of job opportunities across all professions from engineering to chefs, medical personnel to?
domestic helps, etc in Ghana and internationally.?
Unemployment is on the increase in Ghana and the situation made more difficult by the lack of accurate data on the levels. The 2006 Country Economic Memorandum report of the World Bank stated that Ghana?s unemployment rate had declined from 75.9% to 71.6%. It however indicated that Accra has a more worrying unemployment problem with close to 10% of the active population being available for work even if only 50% of them are actively looking for a job.
? The Brighter Futures 2011 expo, therefore provides an additional platform apart (from newspaper adverts) and other traditional avenues for job seekers to apply for vacancies, scout for jobs, register with recruitment agencies, learn tools that will enhance their job search and grab that job whiles availing themselves of available training courses that will enhance their career paths. With free admission to visit the fair, OML Africa aims to bring jobs closer to the Ghanaian job seeker.?
?A major feature will be CV Clinics to be held during the expo equipping job seekers with the latest techniques in writing CVs, Improving Body Language at Job Interviews and Starting a Business when Everything Else Fails, etc?, the spokesman said.
Making presentations at the jobseekers workshop will be Paul Aninakwah, (Country Manager of CIMA Ghana); Anita Wiafe (Managing Director of OML Africa); Tracie Annan (international career expert) ,representatives from Axis HR and many other consultancies. Exhibiting organisations include CIMA Ghana, The Capital Group, Bsystems, Forewin Ghana Lid, Nyansa Africa, Leaders Vision (HR consultants from Togo) and many more.
?Also on display at the expo will be latest HR services and products including software to boost organizational performance regarding payroll, attendance management, benefits and other HR practices. ?Expected to attend this part of the exhibition are key decision makers in HR looking for such products to boost their bottom line.
?The profile of this high quality audience with budgets to spend are HR Business Partners, Heads of HR/ Administration, Managing Directors, CEOS, Executive Directors, Heads of Human Capital, Employee Development Coordinators, etc who have registered to attend the HR conference running alongside the exhibition. Delegates from Energy Bank, Databank Group, Reliance Impressions, Stronix Consulting, Sahel Sahara Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Golden Star Resources have registered to attend the Brighter Futures 2011 HR conference. Others are Weatherford Nigeria Ltd, Ghana Grid Company, Bank PHB, Hotel Obama, Edwin Zephirin & Associates (US), Vale (South Africa), Poly Group and many more.
Speakers at the Brighter Futures 2011 conference include Dr Cookie Govender (University of Johannesburg); Edward Kwapong (Ghana Commercial Bank); Emeka Anazia (Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, Nigeria); Fred Nyawade (Airtel?
Malawi); Diana Antwiwaa Amoako (West Africa Gas Pipeline) and other top HR experts.
For more information on Brighter Futures 2011 email paul@hr-oml.co.uk or visit http://www.brighterfutures4africa.com or call 0206367515.
Paul Asinor
Event Director
Brighter Futures 2011
http://www.brighterfutures4africa.com
Mobile:0206367515