Open Day at the Seychelles Institute of Technology-Students urged to make right career choice |17 August 2007

They were advised so at the launching of the Seychelles Institute of Technology’s (SIT) Open Day Thursday August 16, during which the director of the institution, Jean Rassool, asked them to view the school’s Open Day “as an opportunity for you to also know more about the area of work you do not like, which could be due to a lack of information in this field of work”.

Mr Rassool was speaking in his speech to officially launch the Open Day, which this year coincided with the Careers’ Week. Various potential employing organizations and training providers had been invited to set up exhibition booths at the school’s premises at Providence to allow visiting students the opportunity to learn more about their trade.

Some of the potential employers to mount exhibition stalls for the occasion included the Indian Ocean Tuna company (IOT), the Public Utilities Company (PUC), the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA), the Police Force and the Army, whereas training providers included the School of Business Studies, the School of Visual Arts and the National Institute of Education.

They were justly rewarded in the end, as over 100 secondary school students visited their stalls during the Open Day.
The SIT director urged the students to visit the exhibitions with open minds, “as you are still in the stage of making a career choice”.

Recommending them to visit all units present in the exhibition, Mr Rassool said: “A smart student will want to know as much as possible in all areas of work before making a final career choice”, adding, “A smart student will make a wise career choice to secure a good workplace for his or her career development”.

“I implore you to make the most of your time to discover the opportunities offered by the various organizations represented here and plan how and where you would acquire the training to enable you to have and develop a career of your choice,” Mr Rassool said.

“It is not uncommon for students coming from SIT to comment that they were accepted on the course of their last choice …but they have come to find the school’s courses to be most interesting, the opportunities for work to be very good, and are presently progressing at their work place,” the SIT director added.