New Horizons Set to Organise National Job Fair

New Horizons is set to orgnise the biggest job fair/IT seminar in Africa. This is the first time in Africa where all the global IT giants like Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, EC-Council and New Horizons will be coming together under one roof to discuss the latest trends in IT and how it affects Nigerians as a whole, but more importantly, how individuals can benefit optimally from the numerous IT opportunities. The epoch making event will take place in three locations across the country: The indoor sports hall of the National Stadium, Surulere; the Cultural Centre, Kuto Abeokuta and the CBN centre, Computer Science department, University of Ibadan. The event will take place on the 18th of October 2008. Futhermore, information from New Horizons revealed that participants will learn about actionable steps to take towards improving their professional skills thereby making it easier to get the jobs of their dreams. Other invited guests include top recruitment companies: People Prime, IRIS Consulting, Michael Stevens, and Clement Ashley Consulting.

Bavisi, the co-founder of EC-Council, creators of programmes such as CEH-Certified Ethical Hacker, CHFI-Certified Hacking Foresnsic Investigator, Master of Security Science-MSS, and MBA E-Business will be in attendance to discuss the importance of e-business to national growth and career development.

At the fair, participants will have the opportunity to meet with the recruitment firms to discuss their career aspirations, the needed steps to take to achieve their goals and job opportunities in the Nigerian employment market. They will also get to know the top paying companies in the country, good universities they can attend on a reasonable budget abroad for their postgraduate programmes as well as available scholarships they can tap into to sponsor their schooling.

MD/CEO of New Horizons , Tim Akano said they were organising another job fair because of the unpredecented turn out of particpants at the first one in which more than 10,000 people came. He e further revealed that people had been calling in, writing letters and emails, beckoning on the organsation to put together another job fair, not only in Lagos, but in other states and that is why the firm is putting together a bigger job fair. He added that they were expecting upwards of 30,000 people to come for the event.

He drew attention to the deplorable situation of unemployment in the country and the need to address the situation with pragmatic and long lasting solution. He said the former minister for education Mrs. Oby Ezekwelisi and the present CBN Governor, Charles Soludo said that more than 70% of Nigerian youths are unemployed, unemployable, or underemployed and if the situation is not reversed Nigeria will soon become a nation of criminals. He said the effect of unemployment is deeply felt in the society as the rate of crime has risen to alarming proportions and the only solution to it is to provide the right skills to people so as to rise above the situation and live more prosperous lives. He explained that ICT is the area in which skills are needed in the world today and those who strive to acquire these skills will be better for it.

It will be recalled that New Horizons had previously organized a job fair at the National Sadium Lagos, where more than 10,000 gathered to witness the event; an infotainment night-the first of its kind in Nigeria involving 9ICE and Dan Forster, they have also put together a mobile scholarship initiative in a bid to emancipate the youths from the shackles of unemployment.

New Horizons, the world’s No.1 ICT Training Institution (IDC Report 2007, www.idc.com), as well as the two time winner (2006/2007) for the best ICT Training Institution in West Africa (Direct Marketing Association of West Africa)