Most professors and school administrators are concerned about the degree to which students are preoccupied with getting excellent marks while being unmarketable on the labour market.
Making outstanding marks is certainly vital, but you cannot achieve superlative grades and have nothing to show for it. Instead, you must demonstrate your understanding of what was taught in the classroom through practical application.
These opinions were voiced by the Regional Maritime University's Registrar, Dr. Baboucarr Njie, on Tuesday at a one-day collaborative colloquium there in Accra.
He asserts that when students are dissatisfied with a professor's delivery, they must speak up because doing so does not constitute contempt for the lecturer, adding that this is not a call for students to: Disrespect any professor, but make sure you get your money's worth so you can live up to employer expectations.
In his introductory remarks, Dr. Gabriel Senanu Akapko, Dean of the Graduate School, described the complicated nature of work. He claimed that it starts with a personal vision of what one wants to be and ends with whatever is accessible.
In his opinion, job seekers need certain abilities and experiences that are thought to have been earned over a period of time prior to employment elsewhere.
Dr. Akakpo stated, "Research backs up the idea that the longer one has worked, the greater the abilities in transmitting knowledge, but it becomes fairly tough for novices to get themselves corrected.
His explanation of the paradox served as inspiration for the colloquium's subject, which was "Job Seekers Paradox of Years of Experience Before Employment: What Do Employers Want and What Should Job Seekers Provide?"
Dr. Akakpo was certain that the colloquium would enable students who later became job seekers to appropriately prepare for the labour market.
International shipping business Maersk Ghana Limited's managing director, Mr. Razak Ngula, took the time to give students guidance on how to keep current, stay on task, and build soft skills in order to be competitive in the employment market.
Mr. Ngula lamented the low proportion of women in the technical field and encouraged female students to make an effort to enter this traditionally male field, saying there are plenty of prospects there for them.
The colloquium's chair, Dr. Jethro W. Brooks Jr., the Ag. Vice Chancellor of the Regional Maritime University, cautioned students to be careful with their use of social media since some companies have turned to looking at potential workers' social media accounts to learn about their contents.
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