Foundation graduates secure job training with City Pharmacy

By DALE LUMA
THIRTY-TWO recent graduates, with skills in retailing from the Blessed Hope Foundation Inc, will have the chance to do on-the-job training (OJT) with the City Pharmacy Ltd (CPL) group.
The foundation is a community initiative that conducts skills training for women and unemployed youths.
CPL managing director Mahesh Patel said on Friday his company would take the graduates for OJT and consider them for employment if and when there were vacancies.
“They have just graduated today, 32 people basically in sales training, assistant sales and pickers and packers which is very retail oriented,” he said.
“This is significant for us and although we can’t promise everyone employment but we will try and put them through.
“We’ve got a programme called OJT apart from the graduate development programme.
“So we run two different programmes.
“We’ll put them through the OJT which they will go through a process and if there is vacancies, they’ll get priority to get employed beyond that.
“Our HR (human resource) team is here and they take charge.”
Patel said CPL would also be working closely with Blessed Hope Foundation Inc to see if there were parts of the curriculum that needed enhancing or modifying to suit their requirements.
“Our HR general manager will be in close liaison with them,” he said at the graduation at Taikone in NCD’s Moresby South.
CPL has also made a commitment to supply building materials to the foundation to build a structure for students to have classes, according to Patel.