The Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, Ken Thompson has noted with concern that lots of Ghanaian graduates are not fit to be hired because they do not read after school.
He said on daily basis he rejects numerous graduates who turn up at his office looking for jobs.
Ken Thompson said he is forced to turn away such job candidates because they usually demonstrate a lack of knowledge of the jobs they turn up at his office hunting for.
Speaking to radiogoldlive.com at a project proposal presentation by final year students of African University College of communications, Mr. Thompson said ‘for every 30 to 40 graduates that come to my office only 1 % probably has an idea of what they are talking about’.
‘if you come to my office with your qualifications I will open the door and kick you so hard, you won’t realized you’ve been kicked, and where you will land only God can help you’.
He said ‘come to my office and say Mr. Thompson I can do this, I can do that, then we are talking. Don’t come to my office wearing your qualifications because I will sack you’.
The Dalex Finance CEO advised new graduates to think about value addition and other ideas that will provide solutions to society’s problems and this can only be achieved through constant reading and researching.
Ken Thompson expressed his sadness at the unemployment scourge that is making it difficult for millions of Ghanaian graduates to find jobs as they do not possess the necessary skills required by the job market which has left numerous young people either unemployed or underemployed.
Ken Thompson admonished graduates to take advantage of the internet to continuously read to upgrade their school knowledge in order to make them competitive for the job market.
‘’I am sounding an alarm that you can only eat what you kill and that if you want to excel in the work place yes, the education system can help you to a point but it all depends on you’’.
He appealed to employers to rethink their hiring criteria by paying attention to job applicants who have the required skills but lack university degrees.
‘’It is more important to realize that we have to teach the young people what to do for them to be able to excel in the work place, it is our responsibility as captains of industry,” he emphasized.
Story: Coffie Emmanuel
