Africa's future development lies in our over 70% youth population, particularly those who have acquired an education. However, their is lack career guidance and market information has resulted in many joining the market ill prepared, lost and unemployed. Our effort to disseminate career information will enlighten the youth enabling to enter the market ready to adapt to the market either as employees or self employed.
Uganda Bureau of Statistics's 2019 Statistical Abstract report notes unemployment among youth (18-30 years) is at 13% and labour underutilization at 38%. In total this is 51% in loss of optimum youth productivity. Among the educated many site lack of career guidance denied them information to make better choice of best fitting careers. It is difficult for one to be get work or be productive in his/her work in a career that doest fit his ability and interest, thus loss human productivity.
Providing career information will enable students make choice in the prime of their secondary school. The project comes with promotion of career clubs in schools. The Career club platform will be a perfect opportunity for the secondary school alumni to give back to the school through sharing their careers. These alumni will create opportunities to expose students through school field visits or vacation placements. All this will result in the increase the quality of labour and productivity.
-Career guidance being given the priority it deserves on Secondary School calendar. -Change the mindset of career aspiration from merely popular choices to choices matched with ability and interest -Unemployment and underutilization of labour reducing to single digit percentage -Youth adapting to the market with a readiness to pursue entrepreneurship rather than sit back and wait for a job.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
