NAVTTC takes initiative to hold skill shows, job fairs

National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) has taken initiative to organize skill shows and job fairs in all provincial capitals and Islamabad in which the industrialists, trainees, would-be trainees, trainers, school/college-going boys and girls, parents, employers and TVET policy makers are gathered at one place to interact, socialize and network with each other to explore and benefit from level of skill competencies, marketable trades and available employment opportunities for the youth.
Skills and knowledge are motivating forces of financial growth and community development of any country and with the increasing pace of globalisation and technological changes across the world these factors have become even more important. Skill development in our case is the one and only way not to our social and economic development but peace and prosperity as well. Unfortunately, our skill sector has been neglected for over fifty years. Pakistan's human capital particularly our youth contains the greatest potential to be tapped in this regard. By prioritising technical and vocational skills we can make our youth useful and productive citizen of the country.
National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) is the apex body at the national level mandated to regulate, frame policies, co-ordinate, facilitate, and provide directions to all stakeholders of Technical Vocational Education and Training sector in Pakistan. Our country is blessed with a huge youth bulge comprising almost 60% of our population but jobs are limited. If our youth remain idle and unemployed, poverty and frustration would lead them to the world of crime and terrorism. The best way to prevent frustrated and jobless youth falling prey into hands of terrorists is to impart them with vocational and technical training for helping them get employment in various sectors of the industry. NAVTTC trains 50,000 young boys and girls in various demand driven trades per annum which would be doubled next year.
To further the noble cause of reducing unemployment and alleviating poverty from our country, NAVTTC has taken initiative to organize skill shows and job fairs in all provincial capitals and Islamabad in which the industrialists, trainees, would-be trainees, trainers, school/college-going boys and girls, parents, employers and TVET policy makers are gathered at one place to interact, socialize and network with each other to explore and benefit from level of skill competencies, marketable trades and available employment opportunities for the youth. Moreover, Job Placement Centers have been established at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi to facilitate the trained youth to get jobs within and outside the country.-PR