Seven join Credit Corp after job training

By MELYNE BAROI
SEVEN high school leavers are now full-time employees of the Credit Corporation Ltd after completing a two-week job experience training under the pilot project of Project Yumi Inc Project Wok programme.
Project Yumi Inc, an Australian-Papua New Guinean non-profit-organisation, had launched Project Wok last year to help high school students secure jobs in the country.
The graduates, who came with different educational and family backgrounds, were introduced through their family members who were employees of the Credit Corporation. On Thursday evening during a cocktail event, some of the seven participants of the Project Wok, told a crowd of stakeholders and fellow employees of the credit corporation that they worked either as officers or executive assistants after undergoing the job search skills and training programme.
It was noted that the Project Wok provided a two-day training on skills and techniques in writing resumes, job applications, interviews and basic finance management skills to 29 high school students.
Through an agreement with the Credit Corporation, Project Wok was able to engage the 29 participants in the two-week job experience training with the corporation.
They graduated with certificates and seven were taken on to work with the corporation.
Among them was Konio Sinidrung Kobal who worked as acting executive assistant to Credit Corporation chief executive officer Danny Robinson.
Kobal shared her experience in the programme as a “short yet rewarding journey that most students did not get to help them find jobs quickly”.
She said the programme changed her perception on the importance of resumes, interviews and job applications.
She was a Grade 12 school leaver who could not pursue her studies because of financial issues but was rescued through the programme and had now been now a fulltime employee.
Project Wok volunteer facilitator Dawn Robinson said they were looking for other companies in the country to register with the project in order to facilitate the trainees and further help them to find jobs.
She said they were looking to engage more than 200 students and would need firms to offer job experience trainings.