Directorate of Career Placement and Guidance

The Directorate of Career Placement and Counselling (DCPC) has been established to focus on providing comprehensive and professional career counselling and guidance as well as facilitating career placement especially for industrial attachment of students. The Directorate also provides a confidential and congenial environment for students to seek and access information that help in their career decision making, academic concerns. Students concerns and needs relating to the mandate of the Directorate are treated with much respect and handled in confidence.

The lifeforce of the Directorate is not limited to assisting students in making career decisions but also provide you with knowledge and skills necessary for leading the path to successes in other spheres of life.

In carrying out its mandate, the Directorate ensures relationship building and maintenance between the University and Industry for the primary purpose of industrial attachment placement. Students are assisted to get placement for their industrial attachment by facilitating introductory or recommendation letters for students.

Mr. Edem K. Honu

Ag. Director, DCPC

OUR FOCUS

In performing its functions, the Directorate focuses on providing guidance and counselling services to mainly students and staff that require the assistance of the Directorate. In addition, we give major attention to student placement for internship as our programmes are practical based. Students need to have industry experience to put to test or assess the hands-on practical training provided them. This is necessary for students in order to boost their confidence in the skill acquired.

The operation of the Directorate is undertaken through:

• Industrial Liaison Unit
• Guidance and Counselling Unit

INDUSTRIAL LIAISON UNIT
The Industrial Liaison Unit oversees:

• that students secure industrial attachment (internship) placements
  the facilitation industrial tours/visits for students
  that students on industrial attachment are properly monitored
• that good relationship is established between the University and industry
  the conducting and collating of tracer studies data on graduates
• the creation of linkages for industrial attachment/work place, learning experience for students and Lecturers
• the provision of feedback from industry to help develop and update curriculum to meet industry-specific courses, skills and competencies
• the organising of orientation programmes for students, to promote their understanding of Practical Industrial Training
• the organising of workshops for both internal and external Industrial attachment supervisors
• the preparation of annual reports on industrial attachment/work place learning experience to the Academic Board
  
  

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING UNIT
The guidance and counselling unit of the Directorate works to ensure:

• the provision of counselling services to students and staff to ease academic and social stress
  the organising of training workshops or seminars on relevant guidance and counselling, in life and career planning skills
• the initiation of plans and programmes to address life challenges faced by students in academic environment
• the provision of individual and group counselling to students with identified concerns and needs
• the training of peer educators and peer mediators in the institution that clients
• special attention is given the necessary attention by the appropriate authority or expert
• designing structured lessons to help students achieve the desired competencies in learning and research