The Effect of Co-Op Based Job Placements on Employment Opportunities for Graduates of Butajera TVET Institution
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2007-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study argues in favor of the importance of co-op based micro and
small enterprises in creating a strong bond between Technical and
Vocational Training programs and self employment on co-op based job
placements. It investigates the state of co-op based micro and small
enterprise program and its effectiveness in actual implementations. The
study focuses on Butajera WET training system and explores how making
its contribution in providing trainees with the necessary skills demanded
by the labor market. Observation made in the preliminary studies
conducted by the researcher revealed that there is big gap between what
was intended as a purpose for training program to accomplish and what
actually is being done practically for informal micro and small enterprise
that are providing major employment opportunity to the trainees. In
addition to financial problems, lack of market linkage and Lack of
Leadership skill are some of the major problems of co-op based job
placement that the researcher observed in the study. These and other
related problems observed in the implementation of co-op based micro and
small enterprise program in Butajera town has therefore, attracted the
attention of the researcher, initiating this case study with a particular
focus on the graduates of Butajera TVET institution who organized in
different co-op based job placements. The researcher has conducted this
study with a major objective of identifying the major problems prevailing in
the activities of co-op based job placement at present, taking the case of
Butajera TVET graduates Organized in different co-op based job
placements. Hence a descriptive survey method of study was employed in
identifying the major problems encountered in different activities of co-op
based job placement to which graduates of Butajera TVET were organized.
The result of the study depicted that the preparedness of trainees in the
technical and managerial skill for self employment that allow them to
manage their own co-op based enterprises are found to be low. Hence, the
researcher has concluded that graduates of Butajera TVET are entering
the labour market ill prepared and have no vision of «one day I will be my
own boss and I will manage my own business)). It is therefore
recommended that depending on TVET objectives and strategies, Butajera
TVET Institution should focus on self-employment in co-op based MSEs,
which required preparing of trainees for starting their own business. Thus
the findings of this study may trickle the thinking of the decision makers at
each level and can thus improve the life of operators of co-op based job
placements
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