SPAR Hypermarket whose philosophy is to work closely with its
host communities wherever it exist and play a significant role in its
development recently collaborated with Funfizz; a career and
entrepreneurial oriented event to host FunFizz 2016.
The event which took place at Calabar Mall, Cross River State hosted a
total of 15 Senior Secondary schools to a intensive debate session over
Blue Collar and White Collar Jobs and their individual/collective
relevance to the present day Nigerian youth.
‘’Often, SPAR experiences serious challenges firstly, recruiting the
right candidate with desired skillset and subsequently training them
with skills required for retail business. What we usually witness is a
shortage of candidates. When it comes to employability candidates
usually the required skills for modern retail business.’’ SPAR’s
spokesperson Mr. John Goldsmith stated while addressing stakeholders at
the event.
Schools in attendance include Hope Wadell College, Federal Government
Girls College, Unical demonstration secondary school, Limelight
secondary school, St Patrick’s college, Holy child secondary school and
several others. The CEO of LASHAKARA wears, ace comedian the Last
Prophet and other media influencers were present to address and motivate
participants.
According its organizers, FUNFIZZ was birthed out of the need to reach
out to the Nigerian youths, impacting them from a very impressionable
stage in life. The central objective of FUNFIZZ is to impact youths;
building their entrepreneurial minds and widening their scope of career
choice. The initiative seeks to empower young people to follow their
dreams with a mindset of impacting their community and their country as a
whole thus pushing them to explore new dimensions in their chosen
fields of study.
For any business expansion, apart from resources like Finance, Technical
knowhow etc, Manpower plays a very critical role both from setup and
continuity aspect. SPAR seeks to work closely with the community and the
country at large to develop Human Capital. As the economy evolves, many
new opportunities will open up for today’s youth. The youth needs to be
guided in building their aspirations and picking up right career choice
to increase their employability.
While we were constructing the Calabar mall, we saw that lots of skilled
labours engaged by the construction companies, who worked on the
project were from outside Calabar, indicating that there another need
gap when it comes to skilled jobs like Plumbing, Electrical, Welding,
Aluminum Work etc.
Today’s youth should broaden their horizon and look at developing skills
which can lead them to become entrepreneurs. There are so many field to
explore catering/ baking, fashion designing, welding, plumbing
/aluminum works, makeup artistry/ beauty enhancement, agriculture /
animal husbandry, fish farming, poultry farming, pig rearing, bee
rearing and the list goes on.
About SPAR
SPAR in Nigeria is a part of the Dutch multinational retail chain; SPAR
International which is present in 43 countries across 4 continents with
over 12,500 stores. Apart from Nigeria, SPAR is in Angola, Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Botswana, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark,
France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
Lebanon, Mauritius, Mozambique. Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman,
Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain,
Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United kingdom, Zambia,
Zimbabwe and several others.
