Seasoned Professionals speak at Youth Empowerment Workshop tagged What’s Next After University

Last Weekend, the We Hold A Hand platform held a workshop tagged, “What’s Next After University” at the prestigious, Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos which was an insightful and electrifying day as undergraduates, graduates and employed guests learnt from the best of speakers from various industries. The array of speakers included Showbiz Veteran, Dayo Adeneye, Bankole Williams, Oluyemisi Falaye, Lolo as well as Seasoned Entrepreneur, Yinka Opeke.

We Hold A Hand platform is a community of mentors helping young professionals and entrepreneurs who experience an uncertainty about their career direction to increase confidence in making better career decisions and decrease the probability of failed choices through a personalized and curated selection of mentors for guidance and support about the next career moves.

Speaking about the need for the workshop, The Convener, Mr Kevin Eguavon expressed that, “It’s not easy, it’s not easy for me as it was really out of my comfort zone but it’s something that I think we need because if we are going to encourage the young people to start businesses and stay in the country so not to feel like they need to travel abroad, we need to give them support. Mentorship is something that is not just telling somebody this is how you do it but expressing that mental strength that they need, that confidence is what a lot of young people need to actually sustain their businesses and also deploy when they have a job. In the western companies they always ensure they have mentoring program in their company so that when you join a company they would give you a person that will mentor you. That’s what we’re trying to do with this platform where young people have that one person they can confide in because sometimes when we’re in crowd and it’s hard as might be shy, feel insecure that would help a lot.

The sessions of the five speakers was an in-depth dive into their personal stories, how their early days were, the challenges they faced, successes recorded and bits of pointers shared on how to be successful, break even and achieve goals. It was a day of Legal insights, entertainment and show business exposé, multiple entrepreneurial records and coaching which was coupled with well appreciative guests on what they have learnt.

He added that, “Again there is something within our educational system we struggle with and we think we’re thought to feel like we need to only learn with reading and writing but that’s not true. For so many people that’s just not their learning style so we try to raise awareness about that there are other ways which you can learn as well.”