Employability Status of NABCO Trainees for the Job Market

Patrick Atiemo¹ , Daniel Quaynor² , Priscilla Y. S Asante³

1. Dept. of Business Management, School of Business, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
2. Dept. of Business Management, School of Business, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
3. Dept. of Languages, Association Steredenn, Dinan, Bretagne, France.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.8 , Issue.1 , pp.1-8, Mar-2020

Online published on Mar 30, 2020

Copyright © Patrick Atiemo, Daniel Quaynor, Priscilla Y. S Asante . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The aim of this study was to investigate the employability status of NABCO trainees after the first year in their preparedness to transition to the job market before their exiting in the third year. Primary data were collected from a sample of 399 trainees of the Nation Builders Corps program out of a population of 100,000 through an online questionnaire administration. Simple descriptive statistics such as the mean and percentage were used to analyze the data. The findings of the study showed that the first two main objectives of NABCO to 1Provide temporary employment to unemployed graduates, 2Improve skills and employability for transition from the program to permanent employment has duly been positively attained and it’s on course just after the first year of its launching. It is concluded that despite the achievement of the NABCO set objectives, the government in association with NABCO must find tangible ways to imbibe into trainees to be entrepreneurship oriented so not make them unemployable after the expiration of their contract in two years from now. It is therefore recommended that the government and NABCO Secretariat strategize adequately in preparation towards the exit of the current trainees.

Key-Words / Index Term :
NABCO, Graduate, Unemployment, Education, Trainees, Entrepreneurship, Ghana

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