Brighter Monday, Uganda’s leading online job website, is scheduled to hold a Career Expo dubbed The BrighterMonday Career Expo with an aim of physically bringing employers and employees together. Our reporter spoke to Brian Ntambirweki, Marketing Manager BrighterMonday about the event and below are the excerpts.
Who is BrighterMonday and what does it do?
BrighterMonday is Uganda’s leading online jobsite through which employers and jobseekers connect across East Africa and beyond. Having entered the Ugandan market in 2014, we were born out of the need to create a platform through which people and companies could find jobs or jobseekers respectively, BrighterMonday today boosts of having over 10,000 jobs attained off our platforms and the largest database of qualified job seekers totaling to over 2.5million across East Africa.
BrighterMonday is set to hold a Career Expo. Tell us more about it.
The BrighterMonday Career Expo is themed Bringing You Together and will be a one-day event to be held at the Kyadondo Rugby Grounds on the 29th January 2016 from 8am-6pm. This event is designed as an effort to address the various challenges of finding the right candidates and finding the right employer especially in this era of rampant youth unemployment and unemployability in Uganda.
What reasons informed BrighterMonday’s decision to hold The BrighterMonday Career Expo?
With unemployment, underemployment and an increasingly young population, our country requires all stakeholders to step up to the challenge of creating sustainable solutions for the youth. This Expo will become one of the many platforms through which collective effort in addressing these challenges begins.
What will distinguish The BrighterMonday Career Expo from all other career fairs and events in Uganda?
The BrighterMonday Career Expo is expected to bring life and fun to recruitment, employment and job seeking by blending several activities such as on-spot interviews, an entrepreneurship hub for young entrepreneurs to showcase their innovation, volunteering and internship opportunities, entertainment, food courts, and hourly career guidance trainings.
This Expo will provide an abundant talent pool for the universities and top employers as well as empower the attendees to make informed decisions about their career paths.
We expect over 10,000 job seekers, entrepreneurs, and college and university graduates.
There is a general belief that graduates in Uganda are unemployable as a result of work skills deficit. How does this Expo intend to address this problem?
Although it’s just a one day event, The BrighterMonday Career Expo will be fully packaged with a number of activities that will better the employment chances of graduates. Graduates will have the opportunity to interact with a diverse group of employers which will go a long way in exposing what is basically required of them in the employment world. In addition, there will be hourly career guidance trainings at the Expo that will ensure that graduates gather as much information as possible on what is entailed in their career life.
What is the target audience for The BrighterMonday Career Expo?
The BrighterMonday Career Expo is multi-faceted; we are targeting fresh university graduates, employers, Human Resource Experts, entrepreneurs, employees looking for better opportunities as well as any persons within the employment world.
Graduates and employees will be interacting with potential employers at the Expo. What should the employers expect at The Brighter Monday Career Expo?
For the employers, come and showcase your brand, what it takes to work for you and your expectations of potential employees. Also give guidance to job seekers to develop the right career objectives. As well, this will be an opportunity to showcase products and service to over 10,000 people that we expect to attend the Expo.
What fun activities should attendees expect to find at the Expo?
There are lots of great minds and professionals behind this Expo and therefore if you are a job seeker, come ready to search for the right opportunities and interact with these great minds. Come ready to treasure hunt and find many other fun activities with a chance to win lots of prices, as well there is lots of entertainment and refreshments to grab.
Which organisations has BrighterMonday partnered with to organize The BrighterMonday Career Expo?
Currently we have partnered with, NTV, the Human Resource Managers Association of Uganda (HRMAU) which is the governing body for human resource managers in Uganda. We are also partnering with AIESEC, a non-profit organization that provides volunteering and internship opportunities for university students across the world. More and more partners are still coming on board for the Expo.
How much does someone need to pay to attend the BrighterMonday Career Expo?
The BrighterMonday Career Expo is a free-to-attend event for all interested participants. All you need is a valid id. Participants also need to register here before the event.
Are other Organisations permitted to sponsor the BrighterMonday Career Expo?
Yes. We have 3 sponsorship packages for organizations that are interested to include: Platinum Package of 15Million Ushs; Gold Package of 7.5Million Ushs and Silver Package of 1.5Million Ushs. Each of these packages attracts varying benefits. To access full sponsorship details, call 0200516200 or send us email on info@brightermonday.co.ug.
How does an interested participant get in touch with The Brighter Monday Career Expo?
You can call us on 0200516200, write to us viainfo@brightermonday.co.ug, or talk to us via Twitter: @BrighterMonUG facebook: BrighterMondayug.