The Coach Sets to Launch Maiden Edition

The Coach is a youth empowerment platform that bridges existing labour gaps, to create employability and mentorship opportunities for people seeking to become intrapreneurs within an organization and entrepreneurs within an industry. The coach is a 1-day workshop to address employability and mentorship opportunities for young graduates. The Coach is starting out to ensure that young graduates are able to develop skills and gain the knowledge needed to thrive on the job and in business as well as an opportunity to meet organisations’ expectations of what their ideal employee embodies.

The maiden edition which will include a thorough CV clinic, a mind-shaping training as well as sessions from successful entrepreneurs in both the formal and informal sector will be held in Lagos on the 29^th June 2019.

It is now stale news that over 500,000 students graduate from our tertiary institutions yearly. In spite of this, employers find disappointingly little pickings due to the poor quality of graduates not being proportional to the numbers churned out. This inadequacy leaves many employers frustrated; is the problem that employers have impractical projections or that graduates genuinely lack critical skills? A little of both, we say.

According to a survey published in the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, employers stated graduate applicants’ ability to think critically, innovate, use technology, solve complex problems, express themselves clearly and work well in a team are critical factors that determine employability. Employability means that graduates have what it takes to be hired, function competently and confidently in graduate-level careers, or to start-up new enterprise (entrepreneurs).

You would agree that it is not everyone who graduates from a university that would work in paid employment, there are other economic opportunities that could be pursued. Some scholars have said that our institutions have failed to empower Nigerian graduates with the relevant skills needed for performance in the workplace and life generally.

Do you know that it has been projected that 33.1 % of the population will be jobless by 2010 if Nigeria were to continue at this rate? Now we could also join the bandwagon, pointing the accusing fingers at our institutions who have repeatedly failed us, but instead, we decided to create a solution—The Coach. This is because we realise that graduates have to learn these skills to make them the change makers they ought to be in our society and our values aren’t about pointing fingers, they are about helping hands.

The coach will train and develop young graduates in the best ways to secure dream jobs and grow in it quickly and also develop young graduates to pursue their passion and become successful job creators. In the end, some graduates will get the opportunity to be mentored by people who are succeeding in their own field as well as internship opportunities. Follow us on social platforms @thecoachnig for more update.