Job preparation workshop offered

The Belize City Council is organizing its final business workshop for their elected term. Participants this Saturday will learn about applying for a job and the skills, talents and capabilities needed in the workplace. Councilor Merilyn Young told us more about the workshop.

Merilyn Young, Councilor

“A lot of our Belizean youths when they go applying for a job, even though when they have on a jeans or T-shirt, they go with the jeans sagging, the slippers, the feet dirty, the shirt not properly tucked in. So it’s basically going to enlighten them on how to sell yourself when you go for a job and then, how to keep that job when you get in. It’s also going to target labor issues and your rights as an employee and social security issues as well. So it’s an over-all package for the employee on a whole.”

Q: “What will make this workshop so interesting or so distinct from all the rest?”

Merilyn Young

“We have been focusing for the past three years on how to start your business, how to manage it and identifying industries that you could go into business for. This is the first time we are targeting the employees. This has come about as a result because of concerns that came out of the private sector that we would recommend people to go into an interview or apply for a job and the information would not be quite appropriate.”

Young says that she hopes whichever party wins the upcoming City Council Election they will continue to offer these workshops which she says have been very useful to the participants. This Saturday’s workshop is being held at the Commercial Center and begins at nine in the morning. The workshop is open to everyone.