Morung Express News
Dimapur | July 1
The second and final day of the 4th Job Fair organised by YouthNet in collaboration with Quest Alliance featured another panel discussion on linking education with industry and to employment.
Titled ‘Bridging the Gap Between Education, Employment and Industry,’ in the panel were Hewasa Lorin, vice principal, Tetso College; Oren Ovung, Administrator, Unity college; Adhako, HR, Niathu Group and Temjen from Nexa Maruti.
YouthNet director, Lezo Putsure, who moderated the discussion, underscored the importance of creating a collaborative chain linking education, industry and employment. In this regard, he informed that an internship cell is in the offing for students, which is envisaged to acquaint them with work skills before moving on from college.
HR professional, Temjen outlined how life skills would come in handy when searching for work. He said that many come with a lot of certificates, however, when it comes to work skills they struggle to cope with work environment.
Bridging this gap between education and employment was emphasised by Tetso College vice principal Hewasa and Unity College administrator Oren.
Hewasa, while stressing on imparting life skills in tandem with the academic curriculum in school and college said that it would help students post college. Tetso College, Hewasa said, has a policy of collaborating with different organisations through which the students are exposed to activity based programmes.
Oren Ovung described how Unity College has introduced life skills programmes, including disaster management, to students.
As highlighted in the other panel discussion on the first day, Temjen pointed to the growth of the private sales sector in Nagaland and its employment scope to local youths here. “The private sector market is only expanding and sales jobs are available. More and more companies will only be setting up in Nagaland,” he said.
Meanwhile, Putsure informed that the 2-day job fair received a total of 1100 walk-ins with as many as 430 registering. Around 80 percent of the total walk-ins were aged between 21-35 years. It also witnessed a good number of people above 35 years and also below 20 years.
As expected, over half of the walk-ins were graduates and around 15 percent with PG degrees. HSSLC/HSLC passed students and below made up 30 percent of the walk-ins.
