Job on offer for graduate

 By ELLEN TIAMU

KEEN students apply themselves through school and university with the idea that a good job and life awaits at the end of studies. 

While this pursuit propels most tertiary and university students, many have no idea what job, if any at all is in store for them. 

Jeffrey Watai, 27, from Lakorama in Upper Lai in Enga is an exception. 

He had a job in the offing when he undertook studies at the PNG University of Technology in Lae.

His father, Nelson, owns a successful building construction business and was grooming him to take a senior management position in the firm as soon as he completed his tertiary education.

During his term breaks, and even before he took up university studies, Watai was assisting with costing and other supervisory duties. 

Watai graduated with a bachelor in building science in April this year along with his wife Jacobeth Pokei who completed a degree in mathematics and computer Science.

Pokei has found employment with Central Business Systems (CBS) in Mt Hagen. 

Watai is currently the manager administration and construction in the family firm, Kaim Building Construction Ltd, and takes care of their offices in Mt Hagen, Lae and Port Moresby.

His job entails overseeing all their projects in the highlands provinces and elsewhere in the country.

Watai and another senior manager in the company will be travelling to China soon in the hope of purchasing a steel frame machine that will be used to make steel frames for kit homes. 

A degree is not the end of schooling for the building manager as he plans to further his university studies. 

“I will work for a while until business is stable and then am looking at going overseas to undertake a masters degree,” Watai said.