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President of Ghana calls for private sector to employ more graduates

President John Mahama has said the employment rates in the country could be improved if the private sector is open to employing fresh graduates into the job market.

The report on Ghanaweb states that, according to President Mahama, the practice where employers require skills from fresh graduates before employing them is not helping the efforts to reduce unemployment in the country.

 President Mahama recounted that “gone are the days when at the entrance of the university after the congregation, you have UAC and other employers standing with their forms and their vehicles waiting to register students who are coming from the university gates.”

The President added that “these companies employ these young graduates, train them and put them to work. Today many employers are reluctant to train people only to have them attracted to other enterprises after they have train them by better working conditions.”

The President however urged the private sector to desist from such practices. He made the comment during the National Job Summit held in Accra on Thursday. He said the only thing that can transform “our untrained labour force into living capital for social and economic transformation” depends on “education which is liberal, technical and vocational.”

 “The obligation for skills empowerment and training now falls more on government in order to prepare the young people in the world of work,” he added