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| Buea IVTC graduates and officials pose for the camera |
By Christopher Ambe
The State-owned and skills-giving
Buea- based Intensive Vocational Training Centre (IVTC) for Office Employees, last June 24 in a joint graduation ceremony formally passed out three batches of its good-for-the-job
market trainees: the batches of 2013,2014 and 2015 numbering about 200.
But no matter how skilled graduates are in
a highly competitive job market their chances of landing jobs are slim if they
don’t market themselves.
Reason why John Atosoh, Southwest Regional
Delegate for the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, who chaired
the joint graduation ceremony on campus told the smiling graduates:
“You are the ones now to create your paths to
success, to employment…
“You
must think big and network, and not feel disappointed in the search of jobs .Go
out searching for jobs and not spend precious time watching movies in the false
hope that jobs will come and meet you in their comfort”
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| John Atosoh urges grads to be job creators |
Describing the graduates as “fortunate because you are graduating from an institution which has
exceptionally trained you,”Mr. Atosoh commended
the Director of IVTC Buea, Madam Becky Limunga Effoe,for the visible
capacity-building role she has been playing for several years now intended to
help the State reduce unemployment and
enhance national development.
The Delegate advised the grads not only to go
searching for jobs but also to strive to become job creators, noting that
professional training is the key to development.
He hailed the Cameroon government for making
education a major priority, and threw the challenge to all to sacrifice their
utmost for the country’s development.
The Delegate used the ceremony to praise the
Biya administration for making Limbe host of one of Cameroon’s only three
Advanced Vocational Centres.
In a welcome address earlier, IVTC Buea
Director Becky Limunga Effoe,said the institution was one of six state-owned
vocational training centers in the country;she added that IVTC Buea is special
in that it offers a bilingual trainng.
The Director disclosed that many of the
graduates could not attend the ceremony “because they have had jobs already at
home and abroad”,a declaration which drew thunderous applause from the
audience.guo Madam Limunga Effoe noted that with a solid
foundation in vocational training no child can be left behind in the job
market. “Vocational training provokes work ethics and economic growth”, she
said, adding that “it is the gateway to employment”
The Director hoped that the” graduates would
see brighter days because we know that the future is bright”
She appealed to the public and companies to
maximize IVTC training programmes, citing the General Manger of the Cameroon
Development Corporation (CDC), the second employer after the Government, who
told her that “The best secretaries CDC has now are from IVTC Buea”
The key speaker at the event was development
expert George Mofor, whose topic was “Passion To Productivity”
The motivational speaker told the graduates
that nothing is more permanent in life than change, noting that everybody needs
positive change.
As such, Mofor challenged the graduates to
transform their diplomas into values.
He assured them that they must face challenges
in life, adding that such would only strengthen them for greater success in
whatever they do. “You must defend your career fearlessly and in so doing the
sky won’t be your limit to success but rather your springboard”, he told the
grads, to applause.
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| Madam Becky Limunga Effoe (1st from left backing camera)awarding scrolls to grads |
The diploma-award ceremony began with a
divine service led by Rev,Jobera Nelson,on the theme “The Best is still to come”.
Drawing inspiration from the Bible book of
Proverbs3:5-6, the Minister of God told the grads:”you are now equipped to
explore the world; I charge you to be optimists…looking up to God for your
dreams and aspirations to become realities.”
IVTC offers training in the following
specialties:office-automation secretaryship, Bilingual Secretaryship,
computerized accounting, Accounting Secretaryship and computer maintenance.
The decades-old IVTC offers nine-month diploma
courses and admission into the institution
is gained either through an entrance examination or through direct negotiations
with the centre
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