Photos: OLA old girls school students on career choices
The 2000 Year Group of the Past OLA Girls Association (POGA) has organised a career fair for students of their alma mater—Ola Girls Senior High School— at Ho in the Volta Region.
Held on the theme ‘Empowering the next generation to make better career choices,’ it attracted the school’s professional old students with backgrounds in medicine, education, audit, statistics, human resource, engineering, journalism, creative arts, hospitality, technology, entrepreneurship and business.
They took the students through choosing a suitable career based on one’s identity, mentor-mentee relationship, voluntarism and networking. There was also a session with the past students sharing their career journeys. The students also interacted with the professionals, who graduated from the school two decades ago.
The sessions were very interactive, with the students admitting that the event opened them up to think more about choosing suitable careers based on their identity, capabilities and interest. At the end of the day, some students admitted they were now certain they were now on course with their career path, while those who were undecided before the day, acknowledged that they were now in a position to select a suitable career.
The Chairperson of the POGA Career Fair Planning Committee, Carine L. Malor, said the experiences shared with the students resonated with most of them as “they confessed they’ve been confronted with similar challenges.”
“From the interactions, some students admitted their parents/guardians forced courses on them when their interest is in another field, some were certain on the path to take while others had no idea which path to take,” Ruby Martha Tawiah, President of the 2000 Year Group, said.
She, therefore, appealed to school authorities, parents and guardians to work with the students and assist them to make appropriate career decisions.
“A wrong career choice will negatively impact the life of the students,” Mrs Tawiah added.
The management and teachers of the school expressed their appreciation to the year group for what they described as an impactful project.
