Annual Employers Career Exhibition Empowers Students to make well informed Career Choices

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The College of Law and Management Studies in partnership with College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science recently hosted the annual employers’ career exhibition which saw students from UKZN engage with prospective employers at UKZN’s Pietermaritzburg, Westville and Howard College campuses.

The event creates a platform for students to engage with prospective employers about opportunities for personal development, full-time job opportunities, vacation employment, training contracts, learnerships, international work-placement and bursary opportunities.

Over 60 companies attended the exhibitions across the various campuses. Exhibitors included Procter & Gamble, Vodacom, AdaptIT, Old Mutual and UKZN’S Graduate Development programme to mention a few.

Third year Supply Chain student, Mr Nqobile Lushaba said that he was delighted to see government departments represented at the expo as he would love to work in the public sector.

‘I was impressed to see representatives from the department of labour here explaining to us about what career options they have available and how we can apply and also to have RCL Foods give us a demonstration of the foods under their brand. It is important to have information from various companies so that one can make an informed choice,’ he said.

Third year BCom accounting student, Karabo Monote said that choosing a career path comes with various uncertainties hence getting to speak to the employers directly is a good way to ensure that you don’t make poor decisions.

‘When you choose a career you uncertain about a lot of things and getting employment is one of them.  Coming to the exhibition and hearing about all of the opportunities open to me as a UKZN graduate has motivated me to take advantage of all of the opportunities available to me,’ she said.

The exhibitors provided positive feedback, stating that the event was well-attended and that they had met with their target groups to develop reliable databases.

Thandiwe Jumo