Jobs, Internships and Mentorship Opportunities Dominate the ICT Job Fair Exhibition at Makerere University

campusbee.ug, Noeline Nabukenya, August 14, 2022 | Huawei Technologies in collaboration with Makerere University and the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance successfully launched the ICT Job Fair exhibition at Makerere’s Freedom Square.

File Photo/Courtesy: The Vice President, H.E. Hon. MJR. (Rtd) Jessica ALUPO (on red carpet in charcoal grey suit) flanked by among others the Chinese Ambassador to Uganda, State Minister for ICT, the Vice President of Huawei South Africa Region, Permanent Secretary – Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, Vice Chancellor – Makerere University, the Permanent Secretary/Representative – Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development; and, Commissioner for Communication and Dissemination – Ministry of ICT and National Guidance.

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At the 2-day ICT innovation exhibition held from Friday to Saturday (August 12th to 13th), students benefited from internship placements, job opportunities, Mentorship and free short courses granted by companies and organizations that graced the event.

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The Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology – Nakawa enrolled students to study free short courses in a series of ICT programmes.

Programmes like Get Connected, Introduction to Cyber Security, Cloud Security, Networking Essentials among others were some of the free 2-weeks short courses that Makerere students were given.

According to the beneficiaries of these programmes, this was a great opportunity to help them polish on what they had already studied in their respective courses offered at the University.

However, majority of the students who were considered in regard to this opportunity are those from the College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS) who literally have an Information Technology (IT) background.

Their counterparts were availed with mentorship opportunities and Counseling classes that were offered by different companies.

Among the exhibitors included Huawei Technologies, Centenary Bank, Stanbic Bank, Posta Uganda, ABSA Bank, Yellow Card, Blue Streams Solution, Rocket Health, Jumia, URSB, Airtel Uganda, Vision Group among others.

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