Oye Dynamix introduces employabilty skills toolkit

Oye Dynamix is partnering SMEs and NGOs in the introduction of a job seeker ‘s toolkit designed to improve skills and create opportunities for graduates to get work. This indigenous specialist learning and social development consultancy focuses on training and creating learning tools that meet the real needs of employment in Nigeria through its Job Ready Employability Programme (JobRed).

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It partners primarily with SMEs, NGOs and other organisations to provide staffing and corporate social responsibility (CSR) solutions through the same concept. Speaking to journalists in a media chat in Lagos, Project Director, JobRed, Mrs. Ajo Afolabi-Balogun, said that there are 1.5million graduates yearly in Nigeria and 9 universities were recently given their operating licenses which increases the total number of universities to about 138.

Social development and learning are the key focus areas of our company so considering the high rate of unemployment in the country, we believe it is our mandate to grow a Nigerian workforce with the appropriate skills and attitudes to sustain socio-economic growth and development.” “What our toolkit does is develop the employability skills of graduates of Nigerian universities through workshops and bespoke coaching sessions; and we simply create the opportunities for them to get jobs or internships through strategic partnerships.”

According to her, “we see personal development as a major building block to getting a job and as such we encourage participants to take ownership of their own growth process through a continuum of learning. We do not necessarily provide jobs and not everyone who attends our workshops will get a job. We do something basic but different. We bridge the gap between education and the world of work; simply put we match skills provision to enterprise needs.”

When asked how this project was born, the Project Director said, “We have a deep understanding of our people who are our graduates and the business processes of our market but more so, we are passionate about assisting both individuals and businesses succeed within the African emerging markets. JobRed evolved from us being at the forefront of a particular recruitment exercise of about 5,000 applicants. What we are doing is projecting, preparing ourselves to meet future labour market needs. So it is not only a natural extension of our business, it is the heart of our business.”

Explaining further, Afolabi-Balogun said, ‘’JobRed fosters a distinct new arm of the outsourcing industry that employs people within key entry level positions as principal staff particularly within SMEs and NGOs. It does not only provide workplace ready staff to our parnters, it provides solutions to meet, drive and grow their real business needs.”