News: Firm Unveils Training Platforms For Fresh Graduates

A Training package to assist fresh graduates to acquire skills that will make them employable has been unveil by Poise Graduate Finishing School.

The training, structured in line with the employability skill maps, ensures that everything related to employment skills is adequately covered in order to adequately equip participants. Speaking on what prompted the school into that, Head, Poise' Graduate Finishing School, Ukinebo Dare, said that Nigeria as a nation is faced with numerous challenges.

"Prominent among them is the unemployment suffered by its youths. Several opinions on a lasting solution have been given over the years but none seem to abate the ever increasing spate of unemployment experienced by millions of the nation's graduates", she said. It is against this backdrop, she said that the Poise' Graduate Finishing School was set up to help bridge the gap between the knowledge got from higher institution and the requirements of the workplace.

"The three-month intensive training programme 'Employability Skill Course' run by the school is a strategic one. It has been designed in such a manner that will ensure its participant enjoys total transformation as far as developing employability skills is concerned. The programme is structured in line with the Employability Skills Map developed by the University of Kent".

During the course of the programme, she said that participants are made to take up certain projects that will help bring to bear their initiative, creativity, networking prowess and other salient abilities, including interacting with top-notch executives and high net worth individuals who will facilitate the classes.

According to her, on completion of the three months training, the school offers one to six months internship in reputable organizations to help the trainees put into practice the skills learnt. Since inception, she also said, the school has trained and transformed over 200 graduates into young executives. "With a record 85% employment rate for its graduates, the school has become the right place for graduates seeking to develop the required skills for the workplace environment and also for employers who seek to have the best minds working for them.

"In order to make the training affordable while maintaining the standard, the school prompted a sponsorship packages and considerations for intending participants. One of such is a discounted sum given to religious bodies, which sponsor their graduate members."

Source: Guardian