Hundreds of secondary school students last Friday flocked to the Turkeyen Campus, where the University of Guyana held its annual Career Fair.
Bad weather did not disrupt the event as hundreds of students from across the country swarmed the George Walcott Lecture Theatre (GWLT), where the fair was officially opened.
At the opening ceremony, Dr. Barbara Reynolds, acting Vice Chancellor, told them that under the right guidance, everyone can make any dream into a career. “The word career makes you think lofty things. When I was a kid there were only three things I could’ve aspired to be: A minister of gospel; lawyer; or a doctor,” Dr. Reynolds explained. “But I used to wonder: who makes shoes? I know now that they make a lot of money. A career isn’t about what you do, it’s about how you do it,” she further said, while noting that the country needs more people who can be the innovators of tomorrow.
Dr. Reynolds highlighted the fact that there is a wider range of career choices available than was previously the case. “We have a lot of choices right now.
If you don’t make a choice, life will,” she stated as she further explained that the point of the event is not to try and lure anyone to the University of Guyana but to assist all the students in taking time out and exploring their options with the aid of professionals.
Approximately 30 booths were laid across the entire campus.
There were booths from Accounting Training Centre, Air Services Limited (ASL), Banks DIH, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Post Office Corporation, the Guyana Prison Service, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), the Georgetown Technical Institute (GTI), the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the Guyana School of Agriculture, the Guyana Sugar Corporation, MACORP, Roraima Airways, Sambora Communications, SAGE and Toolsie Persaud Limited.
Each faculty also had its own booth. There was a vast display of food products and samples from DDL, rocks that students had the opportunity to inspect from GGMC, models of airplanes from ASL, engines and custom computers from GTI, models of renewable energy and recycling plans from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, eye and blood pressure tests from the Health Sciences faculty, and a wide display and information about narcotics from the Guyana Police Force.
