(MENAFN- The Post) Standard Lesotho Bank will tomorrow host a career expo at the 'Manthabiseng Convention Centre for high school students who will sit for their final exams this year.
The 14th Annual Standard Lesotho Bank Career Expo was launched in Mokhotlong on Monday where the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) welcomed students in areas around the Polihali Dam construction site.
On Tuesday the expo was at the Butha-Buthe Community High School, yesterday it was at Assumption High School in Teya-Teyaneng while today it is in Quthing at Holy Trinity High School.
The five-day nationwide event is dedicated to connecting ambitious Basotho youths with exciting career opportunities.
Standard Lesotho Bank says it's career expo“is a cornerstone of the bank's commitment to empowering Basotho youth and shaping the future of Lesotho's workforce”.
The 2024 edition of the event is the 14th where the bank is now the headline sponsor of this important expo that reaches about over 10 000 students countrywide.
The expo promises to be an even better offering where over 35 institutions of higher learning from Lesotho and South Africa as well as professional bodies will explain different career options to Basotho students.
Standard Lesotho Bank communications manager, Manyathela Kheleli, said students in Mokhotlong did not only learn about different engineering disciplines but got to appreciate engineering in action at Polihali.
He said it was a lifetime experience for students from Mokhotlong,“thanks to the collaboration with LHDA, who are fully responsible for the Polihali leg of the event”.
There were also motivational speakers from different professions in the bank and other selected institutions.
Key influencers in the football fraternity, former Likuena captain and now Corporate Responsibility Manager at Letšeng Diamonds, Tšepo Hlojeng, and former Orlando Pirates dribbling wizard, Steve Lekoelea, are among the influencers that have been invited to address the students.
The event is a sponsorship initiative under Personal and Private Banking that is open to all youths, communities, and individuals, where the bank intends to use this event to drive the new Youth or student Customer Value Proposition and attract high school students to open accounts ahead of their enrolment into tertiary institutions.
The objective of this sponsorship is to first create an environment where future leaders of Lesotho will be nurtured and informed of top career choices that demonstrate various skills requirements for the growth of Lesotho's economy.
Secondly, the career expo is a clear demonstration of the bank's intention to put youths at the centre of its initiatives.
This position is shown by the bank's initiative to not only develop special products for youths, such as the Youth Account but also through several initiatives that promote youth empowerment. These include the bursary scheme and the Bacha Entrepreneurship Project.
“We are more than a bank for our youths, but a good corporate citizen and a partner for the education for Basotho,” Kheleli said.
“We believe that as we grow our youths, they will become assets to this country and by extension, develop into a feeder market for our banking products when they enter the job market,” he said.
The bank has invested M150 000 towards sponsorship of the annual Career Expo.
Staff Reporter
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