Choosing Better Careers for Better Living

The assessment was made in an opening of a two day career fair, organized at Salle de Fete Akwa, Douala.
It is always a difficult task to choose a career after the GCE Advanced level or Baccalaureate, because it is one of the serious decision points in life. Guidance is the best choice for a student at this point. This is the reason why, the publisher of the magazine L’emploi, Debora Ngo Tonye in collaboration with professional institutions in Douala have organised a fair to better orientation students especially those entering the University in the forth coming academic year to be career driven. The career fair has the objective to give students in Douala the knowledge of their careers and different kinds of trainings they could receive to move ahead after acquiring the A’ level or Baccalaureate. The career fair has as theme; choosing your Career after Bac.
The youths are finding it more and more difficult to get involved in the world of professionalism. This is caused by the handicap they get by not being trained professionally or did not get a better orientation on which career to pursue in their higher education. The fair is intended to fill that gap. The career fair falls at a period where parents and students who have just obtained their results can make better choices from the opportunities offered to them, from the orientation they will get from the councillors, heads of companies, representatives of institutions and universities who will be present at the different stands.
The career fair will comprise of two issues, it will be a moment of reflection from talks which will be given to heads of enterprises, economic operators, etc on topics like, understanding the Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D system and its importance in the job market, the careers most needed by companies and professional training. The second issue the presenters on the stands presented their products, flyers to the students and parents who were present at Salle de fete.
Talking to Benjamin Kisso, Regional Manager of the National Employment Fund, he said there are three fundamental decisions in human life, which are aspirations, talents and reality of the environment. He added that if anyone chooses a wrong career, he will spend ¾ of his life in frustration.
EFFA TAMBENKONGHO