Gerishom Okonda, the Founding Director of GO TRAINING CONSULT, is a refined Corporate trainer, an experienced Team Building facilitator and an International Motivational speaker.
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Gerishom Speaking in a Trade Summit at KICC, Nairobi, Kenya.
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GO TRAINING CONSULT For Corporate Training, Team Building and Motivational Talks Gerishom Okonda Chief Consultant Email: [email protected] [email protected] OFFICE Tel. +254 718 999199, MOBILE No. +254 736 999199, Nairobi, Kenya Harare, Zimbabwe Contact. +263 0771 220 540 Gerishom delivering a motivational talk to KENYANS IN DIASPORA Forum during a home coming event. |
A Team Building activity for Nairobi County Assembly at Sawela Lodge, Naivasha. Dec, 2017
Director of DS MAX MARKETING, Gerishom Okonda and CEO
of BIDCO OIL LTD, Mr. Vimal Shah delivering a speech during both Young
Entrepreneurship Expo and Pre- GES2015 at KICC, NAIROBI KENYA.
Inspirational Background
UNEMPLOYMENT:
There are over 750,000 youth who graduate from various tertiary institutions ready to enter the job market every year. However, due to the slow economic growth, corruption, nepotism and demand for experience by potential employers, 75% remain unemployed. There is need for experts to develop policies that will address unemployment problems and create an environment where the youth can exploit their potential through value adding initiatives.
UP-SCALING COMPETENCY AT WORK PLACE:
Our education system was geared to imparting appropriate skills to enhance self-employment. However, due to the high costs of living, high poverty index and lack of facilities, there have been high school dropout rates. Most of the youth either drop out of school or graduate without adequate skills for self-employment. Many girls drop out of school due to pregnancy and other demeaning cultural practices.
The country’s training institutions are also either inadequate or lack the essential facilities and technology to prepare students for the challenging market demands. Recently, sub-standard training institutions have come up to take advantage of shortage of training opportunities to exploit desperate youth. In most cases, there is no linkage between the training institutions and either the formal or informal sector.
The youth trained in these institutions cannot, therefore, be immediately absorbed into the job market. Besides this, society’s attitude towards the informal sector discourages many youth from venturing into it, as they do not want to be regarded as failures in life.
We want to bridge the gap by ensuring that these workforce becomes a potential national resource in both production and service sector to our industries.
UNEMPLOYMENT:
There are over 750,000 youth who graduate from various tertiary institutions ready to enter the job market every year. However, due to the slow economic growth, corruption, nepotism and demand for experience by potential employers, 75% remain unemployed. There is need for experts to develop policies that will address unemployment problems and create an environment where the youth can exploit their potential through value adding initiatives.
UP-SCALING COMPETENCY AT WORK PLACE:
Our education system was geared to imparting appropriate skills to enhance self-employment. However, due to the high costs of living, high poverty index and lack of facilities, there have been high school dropout rates. Most of the youth either drop out of school or graduate without adequate skills for self-employment. Many girls drop out of school due to pregnancy and other demeaning cultural practices.
The country’s training institutions are also either inadequate or lack the essential facilities and technology to prepare students for the challenging market demands. Recently, sub-standard training institutions have come up to take advantage of shortage of training opportunities to exploit desperate youth. In most cases, there is no linkage between the training institutions and either the formal or informal sector.
The youth trained in these institutions cannot, therefore, be immediately absorbed into the job market. Besides this, society’s attitude towards the informal sector discourages many youth from venturing into it, as they do not want to be regarded as failures in life.
We want to bridge the gap by ensuring that these workforce becomes a potential national resource in both production and service sector to our industries.