GOVERNMENT has urged the young people to concentrate on improving their skills than waiting for white collar jobs.
Sports and Youth Minister Vincent Mwale said at the weekend that modern technology was likely to make people in labour intensive jobs lose their jobs.
Mr Mwale said that technology has the capacity to take over jobs that people need as everything will be done by the machines such that companies and institutions would need few people to work for them.
He said that there was need for youths to start utilizing their skills so that they do not become stranded without jobs.
Mr Mwale said Government would this year construct seven youth development centers in all provinces to train youths in various skills like carpentry, joinery, bricklaying and power electric, among others.
He said that training young people in various skills will be beneficial to the country because most sectors are lacking skills, a situation that makes contractors come with their own foreign workers because youths in the country are unskilled.
Rubberstamped! The need of education or training nowadays is to gain skills for self reliance. Currently, and sorry to say, in many african countries a university degree is regarded just as basic education to seek skills. For example in Kenya we have about 48 universities and you can imagine the number of students graduating annually. Lets accept this bitter reality. The earlier we accept and march on, the better. Gone are the days we used to walk majestically with papers looking for JOB A and NOT B. Exploit your skills for a better future. Criticism expected.
@Man Kenya-precisely-though Government must create a conducive environment for enterprises to thrive & be viable sustainably!The highly politicised youth empowerment funds which started in MMD was mismanaged, corrupted & given to MMD & let alone to PF air headed cadres- if these funds were to be given to graduates,it was going to be a different story now! In any case,the PF has lamentably failed in all sphere of human development;let alone employment creation!Zambia really needs a revolutionist leader who is already rich & will reduced cabinet & wages to say 20000.00 highly paid minister/or Bank governor plus allowances & diversify the economy practically! Otherwise, PF is a Flea Circus & Joker-its a bunch of useless unwashed masses with air heads.
……this is just another version of Stella Sata .advice……Stella meant to say that the youth including university graduates should not only strive to get employed…..strive to find something and employ yourselves….to my surprise even the ones I thot were intellectuals to understand that simple ‘phrase’ chose to embarrass themselves by performing drama with tomatoes on the street….unlike our time when companies used to line up for us as we graduated……these are hard times which require hard approach to life…..
Look who is talking! The guy is literally in a white collar and gets a government salary every month. We can only have so many businessmen. Even in the US and Singapore, its not everyone doing business. Other people have to go to school and get hired by organisations and businesses so that they can buy what other business people produce and supply.
Inasmuch as there is need for youths to be skilled enough to stand on their own, I think this call is being unreasonably trumpeted, especially by people who themselves have refused to leave the white collar jobs, by among other things, hunging on to politics and refusing to lower the retirement age. I call made by HH for example, is the most reasonable one: work and leave for others to go and set up your own, by 55 years. Not expecting fresh school levers to set up their own, while we who have practical experience hung on to the few jobs available – it should not be a matter of capacity full, find your own means somewhere, NO, the elders must vacate the jobs and move on, for the sake of the fresh ones – nabeve badyeko briefly!
HOW COME YOU HAVE A WHITE COLLAR JOB? NOT EVERYBODY IS CONNECTED TO RUPIAH BANDA OKAY?