Amid the setbacks and challenges presented during the ongoing COVID pandemic, young people in Barbados are still eager to get themselves job-ready as they pursue new opportunities in the world of work.This was the view expressed on Wednesday by Senior Youth Commissioner Elizabeth Bowen, on the final day of the Get Hired programme held by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment in partnership with the Prince’s Trust International.“For the seminar, most persons are looking to gain employment because young persons coming are job-ready. They are job-ready because they meet the criteria of being 75 per cent or more ready in terms of having the requisite skill sets. They would have had previous work experience and the preliminary day [of the programme], would also have exposed them or refreshed them to areas that employers are looking for,” she said.
