NSS introduces ‘flair portal’ to create jobs for personnel

The management of the Ghana National Service Scheme (NSS) as part of efforts to equip national service personnel with skills for employment has created a website dubbed flair portal to reduce unemployment rate in the country.

Flair, according to the Ghana Service Scheme (NSS) is an employability platform, which also offers user agencies the opportunity to make request for graduates with specific skills or training to undertake national service at their end.

The portal it said will also offer stakeholders the opportunity to benefit from skill matching information, which include course of study or profession and serves as data base that provides information on both personnel and user agencies.

Speaking at the launch of the flair portal at a user agency stakeholder meeting at the Cedi Conference Hall, University of Ghana, the Executive Director of NSS, Osei Assibey Antwi said the newly developed portal will help in a long way.

Mr Osei Assibey noted that the NSS had decided to work assiduously with user agencies and other partners to ensure that the one-year period for the national service was used judiciously to provide top-up training for the graduates.

This, he explained, was to ensure that service personnel who undertake their service at other organisations gained skills that would make them employable while NSS also through its numerous modules was offering skills to many others.

“The shift in paradigm from purely deploying personnel for a year to an agency that offers permanent employment opportunities, as well as provide entrepreneurial and employment skills for the youth has become necessary due to the increasing unemployment rate,” Mr Antwi stated.

He said the move is to make NSS retain some of its personnel after their national service and also to ensure that those who went out to the world of work were capable and ready to create their own companies and to employ others.

A speech read on behalf of the Deputy Minister for Education, John Ntim Fordjour said the Service Scheme’s flair portal is a game changer for the private sector and also abhor bureaucracies that dissipate time and resources.

He said the NSS has moved a step ahead as an effective public sector agency to provide the private sector the required support to ensure a stronger collaboration that would address their needs and that of the teeming Ghanaian youth.