Graduates from the universities and other tertiary institutions must find innovative ways of creating jobs for themselves rather than relying on the public sector for jobs, former President John Kufuor has advised.
Speaking at a programme dubbed: ‘A Conversation on Leadership and the Future of Africa’, Mr Kufuor said “office employment” is now hard to find because there are so many graduates coming out of school searching for the same jobs.
Mr Kufuor urged students and graduates to develop a “sense of enterprise” as part of measures to finding a solution to the unemployment problem.
“We’ve come to a point where people think when you finish school there is a job for you to be employed. We need to change our minds and become venturesome. You have finished, you are a graduate, but if you do not get employment opportunities don’t sit and put your hands here like we say in traditional parlance,” he advised.
“Find a way to keep afloat till when the employment comes along and this will mean a sense of enterprise. Don’t think of the big scale. Whatever little things you can do to keep yourself in decency because if you are not doing something sooner or later you will begin to degenerate and lose your dignity, so even as we know the office employment is getting scarce and scarcer, there is still demand around so ask yourself what you can do until the office you are applying for calls you…”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
