To increase awareness of the ICT industry as a career destination for school leavers and university students, the ICT Capacity Building Programme of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka has allocated funds to hold career fairs (CF) in regional locations inside major regional university campuses where students from the surrounding schools will also be invited.

In 2007, Ministry of Education career counsellors and industry professionals participated in providing IT-BPO career awareness and guidance for over 5,000 school children from Colombo and outskirts. Next, the objective is to replicate the career fair held in Colombo on a regional level.

 

The career fairs will be held in the following locations:  Kandy Kurunegala  Ratnapura  Badulla  Galle  Anuradhapura  Hambantota  Matara

 

The fairs will be held at central locations such as the town hall premises of the respective towns.

The career fair would provide participants from regional schools (parents of schoolgoing children and university students are a secondary audience) with information on the ICT industry, specifically employment opportunities and the requisite skills, knowledge and attitudes required to enter those positions.

The aim is to raise the profile of the ICT industry as a career destination and by providing information on requisite skill sets provide students with the means to better prepare themselves for an ICT career and ultimately raise the level of skills on entry in the industry.