The Chief Executive Officer of PETROSOL Ghana Ltd, Michael Bozumbil, has indicated that there are boundless job opportunities in Africa’s energy sector even in the wake of energy transition.
This, he said, had to do
with the shift from the use of fossil fuel to cleaner sources of energy such as
renewable energy.
He has consequently charged the youth
to prepare themselves to take advantage of the opportunities.
Mr Bozumbil said “the energy sector is
changing in form but not in substance”.
He said the world would always need
energy, and that it was the type of energy that may change from time to time.
He, therefore, encouraged people
desiring to build career in the energy sector not to be frightened by the news
about energy transition in order not to end up staying away from pursuing
careers in the energy sector.
Instead, he said, they should develop
even greater interest in the sector because of its enormous growth potential.
Mr Bozumbil was addressing the youth,
mostly students of tertiary institutions, at the China Europe International
Business School (CEIBS) in Accra during this year’s Energy Career Seminar,
organised by the Energy Quest Foundation, to create awareness and interest in
the energy sector among the youth.
Event
This year’s event, the second edition,
was christened: “Energy Career Planning and Opportunity”.
Mr Bozumbil said with over 40 per cent
of Africa’s population not having access to electricity, it presented itself as
a great energy market with enormous investment and job creation opportunities
for the youth of Africa.
He said this was particularly so
because Africa was a continent with abundant energy sources, including renewal
energy.
He thus entreated the youth to view
discussions about energy transition as great news and to deploy their creative
abilities in addressing the energy needs of Africa to make it a better
continent to live in.
He again indicated that even with the
advent of electric vehicles, fossil fuels or petroleum products would continue
to form a major part of the energy mix of Africa over the next three decades.
He, therefore, urged the youth who
would be working in the petroleum sector to have an energy industry-wide
mindset and build transferable skills that would enable them transit well into
the emerging energy segments.
Energy industry
Mr Bozumbil went further to educate
the youth to appreciate that the energy industry was not restricted to
engineers or technicians, but demanded varied expertise, including finance,
health and safety, human resource, logistics, economics, among others, and
urged the youth to look out for such opportunities.
He encouraged them to be ready to
start at the base by taking up low level jobs and learning the rudiments so as
to build the required capacity for enduring careers.
Mr Bozumbil said PETROSOL, an
ISO-certified privately-owned Ghanaian oil marketing company, had over the
years provided opportunity for young graduates of tertiary institutions to be
trained, absorbed as staff and provided on-the-job coaching, and that most of
them were performing excellently leading to the growth of the business.
He said PETROSOL’s doors were always
open to provide such opportunities for the youth provided they possessed
PETROSOL’s core values and the required work ethics, as well as were ready to
humble themselves and go through field work.
Source: Graphic Online