{"id":103976,"date":"2025-11-19T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103976"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:58:35","slug":"access-career-fair-at-aamusted-trains-540-students-in-job-market-skills-and-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103976","title":{"rendered":"ACCESS career fair at AAMUSTED trains 540 students in job-market skills and entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 540 students at the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED) have received training in employability skills, professional branding and entrepreneurship under a two-day Career Fair organised by the African Centre for Career Enhancement and Skills Support (ACCESS).<\/p>\n

The event, held at the university\u2019s New Auditorium and themed \u201cYouth, Careers, and Entrepreneurship: Driving Innovation for Sustainable Development,\u201d brought together faculty, industry professionals and HR experts to equip students for a rapidly shifting labour market.<\/p>\n

Speaking on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Boateng, called on students to take workplace readiness seriously and to leverage skills development programmes to improve employment prospects.<\/p>\n

Human resource expert Modesta Abbem, Deputy Director of HR at the Ghana Health Service, delivered the keynote on interview preparation and professional branding.<\/p>\n

She highlighted first impressions, competence and integrity as decisive factors during recruitment.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ralph Nyadu-Addo <\/strong>outlined the ACCESS project\u2019s four pillars and encouraged students to participate in upcoming employability initiatives across partner universities.<\/p>\n

Dr. Stella Agyenim Boateng, a resource report discussed generational work attitudes and advised Gen Z graduates to prioritise communication, confidence, discipline and teamwork in professional environments.<\/p>\n

She later donated copies of her book to female presenters in the student pitching competition.<\/p>\n

Speakers urged students to move from ideas to execution and to translate proposals into real business plans. <\/p>\n

Students\u2019 exhibitions featured clothing projects from the fashion department and culinary products including meals made from waakye flour by catering students.<\/p>\n

A pitching competition formed the climax of the programme, with winners receiving cash awards for strong business concepts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"ACCESSMore than 540 students at the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED) have received training in employability skills, professional branding and entrepreneurship under a two-day Career Fair organised by the African Centre for Career Enhancement and Skills Support (ACCESS).<\/p>\n

The event, held at the university\u2019s New Auditorium and themed \u201cYouth, Careers, and Entrepreneurship: Driving Innovation for Sustainable Development,\u201d brought together faculty, industry professionals and HR experts to equip students for a rapidly shifting labour market.<\/p>\n

Speaking on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Boateng, called on students to take workplace readiness seriously and to leverage skills development programmes to improve employment prospects.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5688,12837,319,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamusted","category-access-career-fair","category-economy","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}