Over 30 unemployed youths in Yaounde have become more job-ready after attending a three-day Job Preparedness Bootcamp organized by the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation at the Centre Regional office of the National Employment Fund.
The bootcamp that combined technical training workshops, job applications and interview strategies, experiential work-based learning opportunities and skills to improve the overall work performance was intended to harness and fine-tune the skills of the participants and equip them with necessary skills for the job market.
According to a concept note prepared by the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation, the organization of such bootcamps is intended to accompany Cameroon government whose man concern in implementing its new National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (NDS30) is to “achieve full and productive employment and guarantee all women and men, including youths and people with disabilities, decent work and equal pay for work of equal value.
On the last day of the bootcamp in Yaounde last Friday, the participants were drilled on how to prepare for a job interview and how behave or dress on the day of the interview. Participants exchanged experiences on the mistakes they made during job interviews resulting in failure, and the added values that permitted them to succedded.
At the end of the session, Mr Atchang Dieudonne, charge d’études at the Centre Regional Delegation of the FNE who drilled participants on the job interview, expressed confidence that the training would enable most of them graduate from the status of jobseekers to employed persons and job creators. The Yaounde Bootcamp was in continuation of the implementation of a project titled “Powering Prosperity and Economic Freedom for Women and Youths in Cameroon” by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center (SBEC) of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation to support youths and women and help them access decent jobs. This project offers in selected regions of Cameroon, intensive Bootcamps that combine technical training workshops, job applications and interview strategies, experiential work-based learning opportunities and skills to improve the overall work performance.
