Yvette Walcott-Dennis
Scores of displaced Government workers have been interviewed by recruiters from Ross University, which is set to start operation in Barbados from January next year.
The interviews were held at the Warrens Office Complex, between 9 am and 4 pm. on Wednesday.
Many of those interviewed had submitted their application letter and resumes online.
There were also those who received word the interviews were taking place and turned up at the location, with their qualifications, asking for a chance to be interviewed.
“Ross put out their vacancies and anybody can apply to those vacancies. Given the fact that we had persons displaced, she [the Prime Minister] had made the arrangement with Ross to interview Government workers and give them an opportunity to get their foot in the door,” Acting Director of the Barbados Employment and Career Counseling Service, Yvette Walcott-Dennis, told a Barbados TODAY team.
The Acting Director said she was happy displaced workers were given a chance to be employed once again. She said her department was happy to be able to facilitate the process.
“I think the interviews are going very well. Initially they had said they would interview about 75 persons, but today we had around 90 workers that we entered to be interviewed, and some persons still turned up anyways because they would have heard from a friend or something, and we asked that they be accommodated.
“But, understandably, we know that we cannot accommodate everybody. The whole process though is a Ross initiative, they are filling their vacancies, we are just coordinating this end to assist the displaced public workers,” Walcott-Dennis said.
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@ Cynthia Taitt , quite right. Only last week we read of UWI graduates belly aching of wasting their time at the university,because since graduating they cannot find a job.
Many of the businesses in Bridgetown, and Barbados in general, are owned by people who have not set foot in any university, but who prefer to "rent-a-brain"to keep them in mansions, mercedes, yachts, racehorses and private planes,in the same way that plantation owners in days gone by had no need for a driving license, as they could easily employ a careful and meticulous chauffeur.
OMG, the violence in the UK. and we think Barbados is the worst?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6363101/Relatives-London-murder-victim-Romania-think-violent.html
This is for my so-called fellow Barbadians who live in the UK and find it necessary to bash this little island, which is going through the same problems that currently plague mother earth.
Come on my fellow Barbadians, be creative; do something for yourselves that will bring about self sufficiency and employment for yourselves, and to the benefit of society. I am confident many of you can do it if you try.