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Photo: Over 1,000 unemployed graduates Sundry Themselves for job in Enugu
Modotels Hotel in Enugu yesterday, to try their luck in a
job fair put together by SURE-P under the Graduate
Internship Scheme. Under the programme, successful
candidates will be employed by private firms but paid by
the government for a period of one year.
Principal consultant for Mercy Ferg-sons Consults, Joel
Eneogwe, whose company is handling the Enugu match-
making between firms and the job seekers, explained:
"What we are doing today is called job fair, which is an
opportunity offered to unemployed graduates to get
employment under the Federal Government SURE-P
scheme.
"This scheme is part of the transformation agenda in
helping to solve unemployment particularly, youth
unemployment in the country. Today is the turn of Enugu
State and we are hosting over 500 unemployed graduates
with nearly 100 firms participating.
"The essence here is that in the past firms had been asked
to enlist on-line in the SURE-P programme to engage
graduates, in which case, they were just given graduates
who were matched with their needs and specifications. But
SURE-P has a second thought and said, let them reach
them physically.
"Therefore, every firm is having an opportunity to
interview the graduates' one on one and if they find them
good enough, they engage them here and now.
"The banks into which the Federal Government will be
paying the funds are here and the funds will be remitted
straight to the banks to pay the interns according to the
bank details they have provided."
Explaining why it was strictly for graduates, Mr. Eneogwe
noted that there were lots of programmes organised
under SURE-P programmes for women, artisans, taxi
drivers and so on, adding that successful participants
would be engaged for a period of one year and paid
allowances by the Federal Government.
"It is expected that when the interns do very well the
company's may have cause to say we will continue and
take responsibility or liability. There may also be a review
of the programme based on budget; the federal
government may also have a different scheme for those
who have succeeded here.
"So what is there is that this process is expected to give
growth and exposure, skill acquisition to those who put
interest in it from where they can make very well
articulations and get better engaged subsequently.
"So the government is using this to encourage companies
to note that there are those that needs to be employed,
that they need expansion; it's also using it to encourage
the unemployed graduates to do better and well."
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