An online recruitment platform, Jobberman, said it has made provision for 1,200 job opportunities for young persons in Kaduna State at the career fair opened on Thursday.

Programme Manager Partnership, Jobberman Nigeria, Ahmed Alaga, made the disclosure in an interview after the fair.

Mr Alagba said, “We are trying to breach the gap between employers and employees by setting up a career fair to expose these young people to employers within Kaduna State. It is our desire that young people interact and that’s because we do know that getting their CVs to the organisation can be hectic. To curb that, we have invited these companies to come and give these young people opportunities first hand without even knocking at their doors.’’

Mr Alaga said that about 50 employers would be taking a minimum of two candidates each which would give 100 or more people jobs at the fair.

He added that some partners that were willing to scale up were looking for 1000 people which would make a total of about 1200 job opportunities for Kaduna youth.

He explained that Jobberman was targeting to train two million people by the year 2024 in seven states including Kaduna and train about 450,000 young people.

The programme manager stated that out of the two million targeted, 1.3 million were trained while 336,000 young people had been placed in dignified work out of the 450,000 targeted.

“We truly understand that as many jobs as there may be, most young people are not qualified to take even the little jobs.

“As a result of that, our mandate is to provide soft skills to young people across the country, “he said

The fair declared opened by the Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, was organised in partnership with the state government and mastercard foundation.

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