The seminar was tagged “career development seminar 2019” captured under the theme: “Opportunities in the Creative Arts, grooming of entrepreneurs”.
It brought together seasoned resource persons like Kafui Dey, Consultant, Public Speaker, and Author, Mr. Michael H.Attipoe, Culture and Tourism Consultant, and Former Director at the National Commission on Culture, Mr. Benjamin Kojo Mills a.k.a Mr. Wear Ghana, C.E.O of Street Fashion Train Foundation, Wear Ghana Month Program and the Ghana Fashion Industry Honours/Awards, and Mr. Oswald Okaitei, a playwright and an award-winning poet.
The seminar offered skills training in entrepreneurship, opportunities in the fashion industry, the performing arts and the creative arts in general.
In an interview with the Tema Metropolitan Cultural Officer, Ms. Sandra Nana EfuaBoison during the seminar,she explained that, the purpose of the seminar was to educate final year students on the right course to choose for career development, connect participants to job opportunities in the creative and cultural sector, network with most sought after industry players, tap inspiration from them and acquire opportunities for internship.
“This is the maiden edition of the career development seminar in creative Arts and we are overwhelmed with the turnout. It is our hope that next year’s edition would be better than this year’s. The student participation for this year is over five hundred (500). It is our hope to whip up the interest of many young people to look for employment opportunities in the creative and cultural sector and eventually help to solve the graduate unemployment problem in the country” she said.
Three Senior High Schools within the Tema Metropolis participated in the career Development seminar which included: OLAMS Senior High School, Presby Senior High School and Manhean Senior High School.
Speaking to Mr. Wear Ghana, a resource person after the session, he commended Tema Centre for National Culture for the initiative and quickly added that the program has come in handy, as it will help many of the youth and Senior High School leavers to branch into career opportunities in the culture and the creative sector especially now that we have started mass education in the second cycle institutions.
“I hope that next year it will be a three –day workshop for us to have enough time to do a lot more of practical sessions “he said.
Some participants expressed joy for the information gathered at the career development seminar. According to them, the seminar was beneficial since it has given them insight to explore job opportunities in the culture and creative sector because the formal sector cannot absorb everyone.
The organizers expressed their profound gratitude to Tema Metropolitan Assembly, the Department of Education in Tema, OLAMS Senior High School and appealed to corporate bodies to support the program.
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