Career experts to hold modern skills development lecture at Unilag

By Isa Isawade

Career development experts and business leaders will gather at the University of Lagos (Unilag), Akoka, between November 14th and 15th, 2024, to discuss the fundamentals of career and skills development in the 21st Century.

The 21st Century Skills Roadmap (21st CSR) agenda will be unveiled at the event.

Hosted by Career Digest (CD) Limited, a social business enterprise, in collaboration with leading stakeholders in the education sector, the event promises to unveil the fundamentals of the perennial wide-scale skills gaps between the institutions of learning and the workplace in Nigeria and across parts of Africa.

According to a release on Monday by Career Digest, the event will unveil credible solution pathways to resolving the endemic problem that has spanned decades and seemingly defied solutions.

“The 21st CSR shall provide participants access to an uncommon assemblage of key relevant sector stakeholders, keen to resolve the unfortunate problem.

“The Epoch-making event which is planned as a hybrid occurrence, will host about 500 onsite and 3,000 offsite participants. It will feature activities that include keynote addresses, goodwill messages, a Big Picture presentation, panel discussions, official endorsements, Business to Business (B2B) Sessions, networking and exhibitions, among others.

“Among expected participants are academic institutions/educators, employers of labour, development institutions, policymakers (including ministries, government executives at federal, state, and local government levels, etc.), and chief executives/human resources managers of corporate organisations, the media, Non-Governmental Organisations, philanthropists, community leaders, learners, PTAs/parents and guardians,” the release informed.

The Chief Executive Officer of Career Digest, Mrs. Joy Chinwokwu, (a veteran journalist and World Bank award-winning business development consultant), said that “the Career Digest initiative is strategically guided by its Advisory Board Chairman, Emeritus Professor Olugbemiro Jegede, Foundation Vice Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria; former Chief Executive of the Association of African Universities; and Chairman, TETFund Advisory Committee on Digital Literacy, Productivity and Emerging Skills.”