SURE-P tasks graduates interns on training programmme
AFTER one year of intensive and participatory training programme for unemployed graduates under the SURE-P scheme, the beneficiaries have been charged to take advantage of the opportunities the scheme provided them to make a head way in their personal lives and career.
About 50 interns under the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) recently benefited from an exit training programme which lasted for three days in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital.
Addressing the graduates, the project director of GIS, Peter Papka said: “You have been energized to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that the scheme provides for you. These are in terms of both personal and social skills”.
Speaking through Okechukwu Okorie, the director noted that, the exit training programme was to engage the graduates in “a review of your experiences, assess your progress and plan you for your entry into your planned business or career.”
Explaining further, he said: “we believe that the skills and experiences you have acquired through GIS have placed you in a position to contribute meaningfully to the government’s Transformation agenda.”
Acknowledging the success of the programme, GIS director, disclosed that the mandate of the scheme has assisted in reducing graduate unemployment in the country.
Out of the 50,000 graduates, the scheme was expected to engage in two years, “over half of these figure have already benefitted, with almost 3000 of them successfully exited”.
Also speaking, one of the resource persons, Prince Idiong said the training was to prepare the participants for the job market and to make them understand what potential employers need from prospective employees.
He said: “The purpose of this training was to prepare them to understand the work environment and to give them value added preparation for the job market.
“This training is to prepare them so that they can easily get themselves placed in the job market, reposition themselves for strategic and result oriented job searching and when they are engaged with their potential employers, they can easily and can clearly know what they want and go for it”.
Commending the federal government for conceptualizing the SURE-P programme, Idiong, however called on the handlers of the programme to give it enough and adequate publicity.
“We sincerely commend the federal government for the scheme, the scheme has not been publicized, but then that it has this number of persons in the state engaged, and the fact that they’re persons who actually have benefitted from it is a very commendable one, and I will strongly recommend that more publicity be given to the programme and then more persons who are sincerely in need of this kind of programmes be engaged on it”, he said.
Commending the initiative, two respondents on behalf of about 50 beneficiaries said the programme had gone a long to prepare and sharpe
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SURE-P is indeed a very thoughtful scheme but the administration is a complete pack of Niger-Deltans. How come?
We will review and take appropriate action.