Preliminary Concept for Skills and Job Fair

Rationale
Since 2008 Employment Fund has been providing skill training and support for employment to youth of
Nepal through private sector Training and Employment Service Providers (T&Es). Since there are many
actors working in skills and employment sector in Nepal, however, large chunk of youth who are
socially and economically deprived still do not have access to such opportunities. In this regard the
purposes of such fairs are to attract needy youth for skills training and employment and to have a long
term future prospects and relations with regards to income generation.

On the other hand there are pool of youth who have the zeal and passion to work, and hence, seeking
jobs to have a secured source of income. However, due to lack of awareness and market knowledge,
they lag behind in acquiring the right job that suits their skills although there is ample number of job
providers who are equally in search of skilled workers. Hence, this can be the arena where they get to
have an access to the skill providers and vice-versa.

Objectives of the Employment Fair:

 To inform the youth who are unemployed, poor, discriminated, wish to become an entrepreneur
after having skills about the opportunities of skill training and employment in their locality.
 To make the youth aware about the importance of skills in their life and make them understand
about the processes and procedures while entering into labor market in Nepal, be it for job or self
employment.
 To provide skill and employment counseling service to the youth in their locality.
 To provide a common ground for job providers and job seekers meet and fulfill each other’s needs.

Proposed Date and locations:

Chitwan: 19 to 22 December, 2013
Biratnagar: 23 to 26 January, 2013

Participants:
 All EF and non-EF training providers active in the region 1
 All CTEVT, FNCCI, FNCSI, various associations and other GoN trade and technical schools (incl. those
providing longer term courses)
 Any local/ regional organizations active in entrepreneurship development, counseling, (overseas)
information provision, etc.
 Providers of financial services (such as banks, cooperatives, etc.)
 Job providers like various contractors, associations, etc.

The simple but clear rule will be that anyone can be present with a stall as long as this organization is
offering skill and employment services for youth (i.e. we will not allow pure project or NGO
presentation stalls which have nothing to offer to our target group).

Basic implementation:

It will be a 4-day programme to be conducted in the most accessible location. There will be stalls for
two sections; one is for the job providers and the other for skill provider T&E, resource organizations,
etc). So, there will be two markets: job market and skill market under the same roof.

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Different private, I/NGOs, governmental organizations which are providing skills training from working in the
region are also intended to include in this fair.
 Various job providers (contractors and companies) will be grouped under the following
categories:
1. Construction
2. Automobile
3. Computer
4. Electrical
5. Electronics
6. Plumbing
7. Agriculture
8. Handicraft
9. Health
10. Hospitality industry
11. Leather goods and products
12. Mechanical
13. Music
14. Printing
15. Renewable energy
16. Tailoring/garment
17. Textile
18. Others
The participating job providers (under same category) will be placed in one stall.

The other section will comprise the skill providers. The stall for skill providers will be again
categorized under the above mentioned categories.

The event organizer will make arrangements for the following:

Pre-event activities:
 Identification of potential Employers and training providers (in addition to EF T&E providers)
and ensure their participation.
 Preparation of invitation cards and distribution.
 Preparation of promotional tools (radio jingle, print ad, posters, pamphlets, sms, TV scroll) and
promote the fair in media (local FMs, local newspapers, public miking, through sms and Nepali
TV channels). Promotion will be done from the beginning of December (for one month).
 Design finalization and preparation of venue decoration materials: stall including (3 by 3 meter
size) (40 stalls tentatively) each will include 2 chairs and one table, gate, buntings, carpet,
plants, a raised platform (stage) for programs (like concert), chairs for the programme.
 Press release in the national dailies.

During the event activities:

 Provide the following:
o Drinking water and disposable glasses (to the participants only)
o Toilets
o Arrange food stalls
o Musical events (musical presentation by local/and some national artists)
o Opening and closing ceremony
o Security guard
o Cleaner
o Sound system
 o Lighting system
o Generator
o There will an area set aside for demonstration of the production process for the
following products/services: bamboo products, wood craft, knitting, electric wiring,
masonry, tailoring, bar tender, Dhaka and mobile repair.
o Organize a talk program on youth skills and employment, it's prospect and
challenges and invite local providers, FNCCI, FNCSI members and other
stakeholders.

Post-event activities:
 Press release in the national dailies

 All training providers will display their achievements and ongoing activities. They will also be
encouraged to bring along successful graduates from the previous years. The T&Es MUST have the
trainee application forms for the various courses accessible at their stall so that youth (after the
counselling) can directly sign up.
 Following activities to be conducted in the separate stalls:
o Counseling section for the ones who are interested to seek on the spot counseling
service.
o On the spot recruitment for the ones who are in immediate need and interested to
recruit.

Timeline (for the first event- at Chitwan):

Both EF and event organizer will strictly adhere to the timeline below:

s.no Activities Remarks

1 Contract signing
2 Identification and finalization of
Stakeholders (Skills training
Providers-supply Side and
Employment Providers-Demand
Side)
Venue finalization
3 Show drafts of venue decoration
including stall layout
4 Design finalization of venue
decoration including stall layout
5 Show drafts of promotional tools
and media plan
6 Finalization of promotional tools
7 Finalization of list of invitees
(including opening and closing
ceremonies) and invitation cards
8 Invitation cards distribution
9 Release the ads in media
10 Distribution of pamphlets
11 Poster sticking
12 Finalization of musical performance
(performer and music)
13 Finalization of information material
to be placed and disbursed during
the event
14 Finalization of MC and the script for
the opening and closing ceremonies