SD Careers Fair provides options, opportunities

EZULWINI - Pupils from across the country came in their numbers to attend the 2013 Swaziland Careers Fair held at the Royal Swazi Spa Convention Centre yesterday.

The annual event, now in its sixth year, connects local businesses, organisations and universities with high school students from around the country, offering them advice and guidance for their future career. This year, over 70 delegates including African Alliance, Swaki and the University of Johannesburg connected with over 2 000 young people from 30 different schools, making this the biggest event in the initiative’s history.

Among the many companies that  pitched their stalls during the event were Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, British International College, Limkokwing University, University of Johannesburg, University of Pretoria, Tswane University of Technology, Big Game Parks, House on Fire, Onswaziline Investments, Swazi Jive, Old Mutual, RSSC, World Vision and the Central Bank of Swaziland to name a few.

One of the delegates, Khaya Mavuso from Swaziland Electricity Company, said, “We are looking for opportunities to recruit young people to come up with innovative ideas to support our vision of the future.
The opportunity to speak to young people and encourage them to join us in this field is very important.

This is a great opportunity to open up the mind of the young person so as to show them the options out there.”
The event is planned and hosted by the Careers Support Initiative (CSI) at Waterford Kamhlaba, promoting the need for provision of academic and employment options after high school.

CSI Coordinator and Waterford Careers Advisor John Storer commented, “It is vitally important for young people to be provided with options for their future career, it encourages them to work hard in school and gives them a goal to work towards. Every delegation present is helping us to provide that service.”
Pupils were encouraged to speak to as many potential employers as possible, considering whether they would be interested in working for them and what academic requirements may be asked of them.

Gamedze Siyabonga from Mhlume High School said: “For us Form Vs leaving school we have to make informed choices. Some of us do not know about these things so this event gives us the opportunity to ask lots of questions to universities and businesses.

“I would like to say thank you to Waterford for inviting Mhlume so that we could also be part of this initiative. I will now have a different approach to life, I know which university I want to attend and I will work harder to be able to get to that university to be able to study medicine.”
Speaking on behalf of Waterford, John Storer extended a thank you to Mbabane Rotary Club for their support of the event.

“We have had an unprecedented number of pupils here with us today and we are happy to continue organising this event for many years to come,” he said.

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