Over 1,000 students undergo career counselling
More than 1,085 final-year junior high school (JHS) students have been taken through a one-day career guidance programme in Accra.
The students, who were from 45 basic schools, were also taken through past questions as part of their preparations towards this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School Candidates.
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The programme, which was held by the Foundation for Generational Thinkers (FOGET), a non-governmental organisation, in collaboration with Zone Five of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS).
PASSCODE
Speaking at the event dubbed: “PASSCODE 2020”, the President of FOGET, Mr Prosper Afetsi, said the programme was something that was held every year for candidates preparing towards the BECE.
“PASSCODE is something we do every year and it is in two-folds; the guidance and counselling session and the examination session”, adding that the “guidance and counselling session is to help the students to choose paths that would lead them to careers they want to pursue in future,” he said.
He said the unemployment situation was serious and that the programme was to help the students to select careers that would not only make them employable, but enable them to become self-employed.
“There are fewer jobs but there are many professionals who are chasing those jobs. What we need to do is to encourage people to create more jobs, and in creating more jobs, talents and skills are key,” he said.
Mr Afetsi said once someone was helped to develop their talents, it would make it easier for the person to succeed or go the extra mile in life since the talent would be driven by the person’s passion to deliver.
Objective
He said the objective of the programme was to provide the platform for the students to explore and deploy their talents and gifts for their own benefits.
As the students prepared for the BECE, he said, a lot of them were confused as to which course to choose in senior high school and what they wanted to do in life, hence FOGET’s decision to come in to help them make the right choices.
“When we come here we just educate them and not force them.
We tell them to look within the themselves for the talents and gifts they have,” he said.
FOGET, he said, among other things, wanted to position youngsters very well for the future.
The Chairman of Zone Five of GNAPS, Mr Joseph Neequaye, charged the students to take their studies seriously and not be distracted by anything since their parents were investing so much in their lives in order to make them grow into responsible adults.
