Develop skills for job market--- students advised, Daily Graphic

The Labone Senior High School has held its 45th Speech and Prize Giving Day with a call on students to develop their skills and talents to prepare themselves for the competitive job market.
Students who had excelled academically received prizes, while two teachers were also awarded with LCD 32 inches television each for their hard work.
Two students who performed exceptionally well in the 2012 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) were also awarded with GH¢1000 and a laptop each.
Speaking on the theme: “The winning attitude” the solution to the challenge of the youth unemployment” the Chief Executive Officer of KAMA Group of Companies, Dr Michael Agyekum Addo, urged the students to expose themselves to practical training and vocations apart from their subject studies in school.
He said the job market was very competitive and demanded multi skilled personnels, therefore, they should prepare themselves for it.
Dr Agyekum Addo advised the students to do away with shyness and pride and see the good in every business.
He said the world was evolving to an entrepreneurial era due to the evolution of the internet, therefore, students should develop their skill and talents so they could venture into entrepreneurship when they graduated from the university.
Citing the Chief Executive Officer of Zoomlion Company Limited, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong and the Chief Executive Officer of rlg Communications, Mr Roland Agambire as examples, he urged the students to see them as mentors and work hard.
Dr Agyekum indicated that attitude was also very important in the journey of  success, hence he urged them to adapt a winning attitude by having positive mindset.
“You should change your mindset and keep an open mind guided by the principles of winning. You must agree to start small and grow as you begin to change your attitude,” he advised.
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Joyce Agyekum, stated that the school’s performance in the 2012 WASSCE saw an improvement over the year 2011, adding that “there is more room for improvement with adequate level of discipline.
She made a passionate appeal to parents and guardians to help discipline the students by supervising their studies at home and also taking time off their busy schedules to visit their children in school.
 “Parents and guardians must take up the duty of ensuring that they do more than just paying school fees by supervising the studies of their children after school” she said.
She expressed gratitude to the GETFund and the Ministry of Education for assisting the school with a 12-unit classroom block and a one storey girl’s dormitory.
Mrs Agyekum urged the GETFund and the Ministry of Education to build more dormitories to accommodate the over 1400 students who commute from distant locations for school, adding that the dining hall also needs expansion.
The load shedding, she said, was having a serious effect on the students academics, especially when WASSCE was around the corner.She,therefore, appealed to the government, friends of the school and donors to support the school get a power plant.