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MTN prepares youth to tackle the unemployment Gap

MTN prepares youth to tackle the unemployment Gap

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In a market with too many applicants and not enough jobs, getting experience is a catch-22; you need it to get jobs, you need a job to get it. It is not once that employers in Uganda have voiced their grievance of employing youth armed with theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. It gets worse when the lack of experience blocks job opportunities for the youth, further exacerbating youth unemployment in the country. In an effort to curb youth unemployment, MTN has taken a deliberate effort to equip youth with practical knowledge that is required in work places. Graduate trainee program Through the MTN Graduate trainee program, hundreds of youth in Uganda have undergone on-job training that has elevated their knowledge beyond the theoretical education attained at learning institu...