Office of the Chief Job Creation Officer
OkowaPlus
The 2019/2020 Programme Cycle of the Delta State Government’s job creation programme will soon commence.
The Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer, Prof Eric Eboh disclosed this in a work plan and implementation guideline meeting in his office to flag off the 2019/2020 STEP, YAGEP and GEEP Cycle.
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A STEPreneur trained in Electrical Installation and Repairs has asserted that consistency, availability and customer care are the hallmark for any successful business.
STEPreneur Uche Emmanuel made the assertion when he gave tips on “Critical Factors in Growing a Business from the Start: Lessons from my Personal Experience,” during a two day Entrepreneurship and Business Management Training for 41 Green STEP graduates in Asaba.
Uche Emmanuel who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Marvict Electrical Store was trained in Electrical Installation and Repairs in the 2016/2017 Cycle of the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP).
He said he has taken electrical installation to the next level by going for re-training in Transformer Installation and Repair at Obosi in Anambra State, which has enhanced his marketability and increased the quality of clients attracted to him.
He added that he has four employees and has achieved a lot for himself and his family in the past two years.
He advised them to adhere strictly to the following tips to sustain their enterprises:
· Be prudent in spending
· Market your business, using your business card and on social media platf
· Always make an allowance in your quotations to make room for unforeseen shortages
· Go for further training
The 2019/2020 Programme Cycle of the Delta State Government’s job creation programme will soon commence.
The Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer, Prof Eric Eboh disclosed this in a work plan and implementation guideline meeting in his office to flag off the 2019/2020 STEP, YAGEP and GEEP Cycle.
Prof Eboh explained that the meeting was necessary following the approval of the 2019/2020 Job Creation Programme Work plan and Implementation Guideline by the State Executive Council.
According to him, the guideline will be published and made available to all the trainees, trainers, guarantors and to all stakeholders to update them on innovations and adjustments in the curriculum and training modules initiated after a thorough review of the programme in the past four years.
While stressing that the programmes are open to unemployed youths between 18 to 35 years of age with a minimum qualification of WAEC/SSCE, he said degree and HND holders must have their NYSC discharge certificates or letters of exemption.
He added that youths who desired to be trained and established under Green STEP and YAGEP must have the passion to acquire skills and to establish and run business enterprises on their own.
He reiterated the introduction of the Post Training Proficiency Test (PTPT) which he said is compulsory for all Green STEP beneficiaries on completion of their vocational training, pointing out that it is competence and good mastery of skill that would qualify a trainee to be established with starter pack.
He also said that the Brown STEP category would only admit candidates who do well in the Pre-Admission Proficiency Test, (PAPT).
To enable the beneficiaries to acquire the necessary skills and to gain good mastery of the enterprises for sustainability, the job creation boss said the duration of some of the vocational and agricultural enterprises would be extended beyond 3 and 6 months.
In the same vein, enterprises as Tiling and Interlocking; Fashion and Textile Design and PoP, Painting and Screeding among others would be combined to strengthen and to make the enterprises more viable for the beneficiaries.
He said YAGEP would run within 4 to 6 months to expose the trainees to full production cycle of their chosen agricultural enterprise, while Green YAGEP would include Fish Production, Fish Processing and Poultry (Broiler), and Brown YAGEP agricultural enterprises as Poultry (broiler or layer), Fish Production, Fish Processing, Piggery, Cassava, Plantain, Tomato and Oil Palm.
He emphasized that all beneficiaries of YAGEP would have to provide their farm lands and location before they would qualify for establishment with starter pack and support from the state government.
Under the Graduate Employment Enhancement Programme (GEEP), he said internship and employability workshops to bring job recruitment agencies and job seeking professionals together would be organized to build capacity and to offer job readiness aptitudes for their self-improvement.
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A two-day training programme on entrepreneurship and business management has been organized for 41 graduates of the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP.)
The training which took place at the Conference Hall of the Office of the Chief Job Creation Officer, Asaba was organised for Green STEPreneurs who have completed their vocational skills training for six months in ICT; Fashion Design and Tailoring; Welding and Fabrication; Electrical Installation and Photography in different training centres across the state.
Speaking on behalf of the Office of the Chief Job Creation Officer, the Co-ordinator of STEP, Mr Onyeisi Nkenchor, reaffirmed that the state government through the office has successfully trained 1, 180 youths under its STEP and YAGEP in the 2018/2019 Programme Cycle, out of which 1,139 of them have been established with starter packs to begin their businesses.
Mr Nkenchor said the 41 STEPreneurs for which the Entrepreneurship and Business Management Training (EBMT) was being organised marked the end of the 2018/2019 cycle.
He added that the state government has introduced a Post-Training Proficiency Test to ensure quality assurance for the programme, congratulating the participants on their success at the proficiency test and for going through the various stages in the programme successfully.
He explained that the EBMT is a critical component in the training programme which would expose them to basic principles and practices for entrepreneurship and to how to start, manage, fund, grow and market their businesses.
Speaking differently, some of the beneficiaries, Chinasa Illoba in Fashion Design and Tailoring (Ika North East), Biegba Akporike in Welding and Fabrication (Ughelli South) and Gillow ThankGod in Photography (Bomadi) expressed their gratitude to the state government for the opportunity to be trained to become entrepreneurs, appealing that more unemployed youths be engaged to reduce youth unemployment.
It would be recalled that the Delta State Government though its Office of the Chief Job Creation Officer has trained and established 4,253 youths under its STEP, YAGEP and GEEP including Persons with Disabilities (PwD) in its first tenure.
The Delta State Government has established an additional 41 STEPreneurs
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