Bright Wireko Brobbey, Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, has urged the youth, particularly recent graduates, to create their own jobs rather than rely on white-collar jobs.
He believes that becoming an entrepreneur provides more fulfillment than pursuing non-existent white-collar jobs.
He made this remark during a Design and Technology Institute (DTI) conference on precise quality and standards construction titled “the Precision Quality Policy Framework: A Building Block for Systems Change and Industrial Transformation.”
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“I have not seen any wealthy person in the formal space who works in the civil or public service. Every wealthy person in society is an entrepreneur. Anyone who is able to put his creativity into action and create jobs is rich.”
“White collar jobs are not the only jobs one can do. So we should not be over reliant on government to create jobs”, he said.
He went on to say that adding value and standardizing products will ensure Ghana achieves the industrialised economy it desires.
“What we are doing now is to encourage and ensure that standards are added by way of value to products. The youth in the informal space can only reap the benefits of their labour after they have been able to standardise their products”.
“Patronage will increase and the products can also be exported since it meets world standards. Gradually this will bring about the industrialisation the country seeks achieve”.
Constance Swaniker, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Design and Technology Institute (DTI), emphasized the importance of precision quality and standardisation for the informal sector, stating that Ghana can only begin its industrialisation agenda when players in the informal sector fully understand what it means to standardise their products and services.
“For the average artisan, if I gave you the order to produce six chairs, each of the six will not look the same. We can only begin the industrial agenda if we begin to understand what scalability looks like. Will each chair look the same if you receive an order for 200 chairs? Proper scalability occurs when precision quality is ensured in the delivery process”.
“It is only when we are able to scale properly that we can achieve our industrialization agenda”, she said.
Precision Quality is a term established by Ghana’s Design & Technology Institute (DTI) to emphasize the importance of precision in industry, services, and processes to assure world-class quality of goods, services, and products.
The conference, which aims to advocate for accuracy and quality delivery in the country’s manufacturing line, also emphasized the need of stakeholders being intentional in establishing an environment that creates entrepreneurs.
SOURCE: myjoyonline
