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47 companies have enlisted as the Pan Atlantic University (PAU) holds its first
undergraduate career fair on Thursday, February 15, 2018, reports ITRealms.
The
career fair, ITRealms gathered, would
convene at the Ibeju Lekki permanent campus of the University as it plans for
its first undergraduate graduation in July 2018.
The
theme of the PAU Career Fair 2018 is “Industry meets talent; bridging the gap.”
Participating
firms, ITRealms also gathered, come
from a broad spectrum, including Argentil, Ascentech Services Limited, Brandeye Media, Businessday, Caritas Communications Limited, The Guardian, Chapel Hill Denham and Falcon Energy. Others are
FBNQuest Merchant Bank, FCMB, GTBank, KPMG, Nestle plc and Nigerian Bottling
Company. Also participating are Precise Financial Solution, Primlaks, Simeon's Pivot, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Sterling Bank and Zoto Limited
Careers
and Internship Manager, Nkiru Ukachukwu, said the fair would feature 75
undergraduate students and 40 full-time postgraduate students participating as
a prelude to their graduation. PAU will graduate its first set of first degree
holders from Mass Communication, Accounting and Business Administration. The MSc
class is comprised of persons specialising in Marketing Communications, Media
Enterprise and Writing for the Media.
Ukachukwu
also said the Fair would serve as a platform for companies “to access a pool of
qualified traditional and non-traditional candidates without having to
advertise” while it would “give students an opportunity to learn more about
potential employers and the opportunities available”. It would also allow
companies to “save time and money by enabling recruiters to zero in on
exceptional candidates quickly rather than using the scatter-shot approach of
general advertising”.
“The objective of education in our university is the well-rounded
formation of the human person. This is
why an essential component of every programme is the inclusion of a good number
of courses in the humanities. We also seek, by deliberate design of the
programmes, to inculcate and groom the
entrepreneurial spirit in our students and participants. The university aims at
nurturing individuals who are professionally competent, creative and enterprising,
zealous for the common good and able to make free and morally upright decisions
and who thus act as positive agents of change in service to society” she said.
Twenty-two of the 47 firms, she revealed would have physical stands at
the Fair while others are participating in advertising in the event brochure and
promotions.
The Federal Government approved the institution
as Pan African University in 2002, but it changed its name to Pan Atlantic
University in 2013. The Lagos Business School, which commenced in 1991, became
its first School.
From
running postgraduate and professional education programmes, Pan Atlantic
University began undergraduate education in 2014 with courses in Accounting,
Business Administration and Mass Communication.
It has added Economics as well as Information Science and Media
Studies. The School of Media and
Communication offers Masters and PhD programmes in Media and Communication while
Lagos Business School runs a master’s in Business Administration.
PAU now has three schools − Lagos
Business School, School of Media and Communication, School of Management and
Social Sciences − and the Enterprise Development Centre.
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