Demand for life skills training: Consultant

By GLORIA BAUAI
A LIFE coach who offers capacity training for basic job seeking skills, says the demand for this type of service has increased rapidly over the last decades.
Lazarus Towa’s Consultancy Services started off with equipping job seekers basics in writing curriculum vitaes, letters of interest and interview tips and techniques.
Towa said in a day, he would receive more than 100 emails alone for assistance, this did not include requests through social media platforms
He said this reflected the large number of job seekers in the market which, in turn, was a reflection of the high unemployment rate.
Towa expanded his capacity training to include business registration as an alternative for clients to start their own revenue-earning activities.
During his recent trip to Lae, he delivered sessions also on business registrations through the Investment Promotion Authority and Internal Revenue Commission, basic business profiling and Facebook marketing.
Recent business graduate Philemon Rendy, 26, was one of the participants.
“I knew there would be many challenges when graduating, one of which would be unemployment,” Rendy, a University of Technology graduate, said.
“I told myself if I did not secure a job after a certain number of interest letters sent out, I would have to start my own business.
“And Towa’s consultancy actually provided that full package – the skills required to secure a formal job which we do not learn in university, and how to start up my own business.
“The skills acquired are from real experiences and it basically builds me as a new graduate to step out of my comfort zone with confidence into the world and make something of myself.”
Rendy said young Papua New Guinean’s needed to be willing to build themselves up and not wait for Government to create jobs for them.