Trainees urged to be job creators instead of job seekers

New students of the Limbe Business College, LBC, have been called upon to put in their utmost best in their various programmes so as to be job creators and not job seekers at the end of their training.

This was echoed during an orientation session for the students recently at the school campus, by the Southwest regional inspector in charge of training, Mr. Thomas Orock.

While interacting with about one hundred students, he encouraged them that they had made the best choice by going in for professional education, he told them that it is necessary that they go through a professional training center like the LBC, so as to confidently embrace the private sector which is now gaining popularity and relevance.

“By choosing professional education, you have now taken a vaccine against unemployment, poverty, dependence etc”, the regional inspector said, and he called on the students to prepare themselves by being morally upright and contributing to society through volunteering.

To the school administration, Thomas Orock called on them to effectively provide the students with holistic training to help them realise their dreams. While admitting to The Sun that the school is now up to standard, the regional inspector explained that “Orientation programmes are very necessary at all levels to enable students acquaint themselves with the new environment. We want to make them understand that they have chosen the right track; they have chosen professional training, which is what Cameroon need right now. Much emphasis was placed on job creation rather than job seeking. We urge the promoter to make the training holistic and it should integrate the entrepreneurship aspect so that at the time the trainees are leaving, they will have skills on how to integrate well in society”.

According to the director of the institution, Muteh Melville, "the purpose of the orientation ceremony, was to enable the students to understand what they have come to study because the programme, logistics supply chain and transport management, oil and gas are virtually new programmes in Cameroon, thus the students are not very versed with these programmes, so we want to educate them what they entail”.

Talking on the 2014/2015 ACCL scholarship which is 50% reduction of tuition fee for students in programmes like Transport and Petroleum Logistics, Logistics, Supply chain and Transport Management, Oil and gas management, Health and Safety at work, Mr. Muteh explained that “because of these scholarships, many of them will be benefitting from a programme that cost much because doing all these programmes out of Cameroon is about four times what they are paying here. These are programmes that grooms the labour force the country is in need of, we have a growing oil and logistics industry in the country, so logisticians have a growing place in the society”.

During the ceremony, the students were given details on Logistics, Oil and gas and Health and safety at work and it also witnessed a presentation on how to improve transport management by some old students of the LBC.

The LBC is a training center which works in partnership with institutions in the UK, USA, Asia and Africa, in providing National and International business programs and training, which are structured to bring out qualified professionals for the global job market.