Linden youths schooled on career opportunities

Youths in Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara- Berbice) were presented the opportunity to choose a career path, through a Career fair hosted by the Education Ministry, Department of Culture, Youth and Sports on Wednesday. Scores of youths from the community, including several schools, flocked to the Linden Technical Institute where the exercise was hosted, to explore opportunities offered by various organisations. Held under the theme, “A youth aware is a youth prepared”, youths were given a chance to ask questions, sign up, and submit their resume’s in an effort to secure jobs.
In her remarks, during the opening ceremony, Director of Youth Melissa Carmichael stressed the importance of young people in the Region, noting that their voices, talents and skills are important to the nation’s development.
“We want to help you to start, to begin somewhere. And by forging you with all the organisations represented here today we give you the opportunity to choose, to start making decisions. To say, whether one career or the other may fit you…You will have to be the ones to decide what and where you go from here. We will continue to present opportunities in environments like these so that our young people are able to make better decisions…Tomorrow you will be the leaders, the decision makers”, she stressed.
Carmichael alluded that the youths are the molders and shapers of the nation as she encouraged them not to be discouraged by the lack of, but to be motivated by the drive to work towards fulfilling the gap. She further urged that they be inquisitive and to seek to be a part of organisations in making the best use of the activity.
Linden Mayor Carwyn Holland in his remarks, shared his own experiences with choosing a career, as he stressed the importance of doing so.
“When choosing a career, it is important to do self examination…ask yourself, what are you really good at? You must know what you love doing…Choosing a career is very important…You must assess the need of your nearby and wider community to determine how you can assist or how you can be an asset. You need to assess the possible financial gains of your preferred career choices…choose careers wisely. You must assess the qualifications and expertise necessary for your preferred career choices to determine if you are willing and capable”, he said, while stressing that the community is in need of great leaders who are of high moral standards.
Regional Chairman Renis Morian also encouraged the youths to make the best use of the opportunity presented through the exercise and to formulate in their minds, where they wanted to go and how they plan on getting there, as he also encouraged them to remain focused.
“Don’t allow yourselves just to hang loose…you have your life, you have a future…all of you could be a success story. So use today as a vehicle and an imputus to strengthen your resolve and your own path of what you want to be…I want to assure you, that you have the ability to make it. I want to assure you that the Government of Guyana is working very hard to promote young people”, he said.
Organisations such as the Guyana Defence Force, the Linden Mayor and Town Council, Linden Technical Institute, Guyana Post Office Corporation and the Linden Utility Services Co-op Society Limited were among numerous others present.