Stories of how higher education services helped three young people from Ghana and Jamaica build their career paths.

Key Points

Watch the full webinar below, and here are recommendations for students and for universities from the speakers:

• For students:  
  • Diversify your profile by engaging in a range of programs or clubs.
  • Seek internship opportunities to gain work experience. Even brief internships during school vacations can be helpful.
  • Take advantage of the career services your schools have to offer while you are a student. You may not have access to these services after graduation.
  • It's all about what you know and who you know. Attend as many seminars, conferences, careers fairs, and expos as you can. 
• For universities:  
  • Encourage students to pursue a career that will allow them to be their best selves. 
  • Hold networking events and promote mentorship programs that bring together individuals and organizations from various disciplines and fields.
  • Help students become more confident in themselves and what they have to offer.  
  • Build strong relationships between programs of study and specific internship opportunities. 

Watch the recording here! 

Access the slides for the webinar by clicking here! See attached below. 

About the Event

Come listen to the success stories of Faith Rovina Ngala and Jacob Osae who shared their experience with career centers in Ghana​ into the education and technology sectors. Sashawaney Clarke shared her experience with a non-conventional higher education and career path in Jamaica and into the agroprocessing. In this interactive panel discussion, these young people and audience members shared about what kinds of support and services were most useful in their transition from higher education to work.

Higher education administrators and programming implementers can listen for lessons in supporting young peoples' school-to-work transitions, and young people can hear from their peers about leveraging available services for employment.

Presented by USAID's YouthPower 2: Learning and Evaluation Activity, the Higher Education Engagement and Transformation Community of Practice (CoP) serves youth, practitioners in youth-serving organizations, policymakers, and staff and students of higher education institutions.

About the Community of Practice

The YP2LE Learning Network brings together diverse stakeholders who seek to learn more and share about youth development. As one of six communities of practice, the Higher Education Engagement and Transformation (HEET) group helps members share and benefit from collective learning. Learning more about the HEET and other CoPs on YouthPower.org and register to connect with these communities.

You must be a registered member of YouthPower.org in order to participate in the discussion group. Register today!