One of Rwanga Foras’s main objectives is to connect job seekers – mainly young people and recent graduates – with employers and establish channels of communication for the benefit of both. With this aim, every year the Rwanga Foundation holds its International Job Fair. The Rwanga Foras International Job Fair is a unique networking opportunity for employers and recruiters from various sectors including private, public, for-profit and non-profit local and international organizations to gather under one roof to meet and engage with prospective job seekers.
The Rwanga Foras project connects job seekers and employers through Foras Portal and provides training courses to young people, students and others who are struggling to enter the job market.
The Rwanga Foras International Job Fair is a unique networking opportunity for employers and recruiters from various sectors including private, public, for-profit and non-profit local and international organizations to gather under one roof to meet and engage with prospective job seekers.
For the Rwanga Foras International Job Fair 2019, 166 local and international companies and organizations came together to present available positions in their organizations and meet with job seekers. Sectors represented included, among others, construction, tourism, trade, petroleum, industry, communication, agriculture, advertisement, aviation, automotive, banking, supplies, medicine, and security, in addition to a number of UN agencies and national and international NGOs.
During the event, the Rwanga Foras teams delivered presentations on employability skills mainly related to CV and cover letter writing, interview techniques, and work ethics. Additionally, panel discussions related to employment, entrepreneurship, marketing, etc., were held. The companies attended had 2,204 job vacancies on offer to the job seekers.
In total, 166 companies participated, from 13 different countries: South Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, UAE, Switzerland, USA, Canada, and Iraq. As an overall, twenty-six sponsors supported this event in 2019.
The Rwanga Foras International Job Fair 2019 is part of the Rwanga Foras Project. The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Rwanga Foundation began funding the Rwanga Foras Project in April 2019.
For the past four years, more than 422 sponsors and companies have supported the event, 62,255 people have attended, and 5,677 job vacancies were presented to prospective employees.
