adminSharon Chigeza Herald Correspondent
INTEGRATED media giant, Zimpapers’ inaugural Manicaland Career Expo 2018, held in Mutare last Friday was a success and it surpassed expectations. The expo sought to provide a platform for pupils in high school to explore career options on the market. Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare employment officer Ms Norah Torto hailed Zimpapers for the initiative to host such an event and wished to see more of such events being held in the future.
“As a department of national employment services, we are mandated to hold career guidance and counselling workshops and exhibitions and we appreciate the initiative taken by Zimpapers to host such an event nationwide,” she said.
Schools — including Mutare Girls High, Mutare Boys High, Elise Gledhill and Sakubva High 1 — attended the expo where colleges, universities and corporates including fully integrated media giant — Zimpapers — were exhibiting and explaining what they have on offer.
At the expo, pupils got the opportunity to meet face-to-face with representatives of various companies and institutions and got information on recruitment processes and qualifications required to qualify for certain programmes or opportunities.
Advanced Level science pupils at Mutare Boys High, Anotidaishe Muusha and Raphael Mupande, said the expo was an eye-opener as they both had dreams of working in the media fraternity later in life.
“At first I thought my dreams of entering the media industry had been shuttered since I have taken up Sciences as my A-Level options, but this expo has really enlightened me to a variety of career paths I can take up,” Muusha said.
Diamond FM head of marketing, Peter Madondo, who led a team from the media house’s marketing and editorial divisions, as well as those into branding and events said the inaugural expo was a success and hoped to hold more of them in future. “The expo was greatly successful, we had an encouraging turnout from both exhibitors and pupils from schools around Mutare.
“We have learnt a few lessons and the next career expo will be flawless and bigger,” he said.
Zimpapers is the flagship of publications such as The Herald, The Sunday Mail, The Chronicle, The Manica Post, Kwayedza, Business Weekly, H-Metro, Sunday News, B-Metro and Southern Times. On the electronic front, Zimpapers boasts of several radio stations — Star-FM, Diamond FM, Capitalk and BH24, a prime daily business bulletin.
It also has a television production unit, the Zimpapers Television Network and the National Printing and Packaging Company (Natprint), which falls under its Commercial Printing Division.
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