13 top first pieces of advice for a fresh graduate in Ghana (Check No.1,2,4 and 13)

What’s your first advice for a fresh graduate in Ghana? Well, the answers provided here will tell you what to do and consider if you are a new graduate or an old existing graduate with no job or no decent job and nothing to do with your life.

Ghanaians have taken to social media to indicate their first advice for a fresh graduate in Ghana. The suggestions given indicate that all is not well with this nation and that, given the opportunity, a lot of Ghana’s young graduates will leave this country. According to some of Ghana’s new graduates do not need advice but rather the President and his vice. “They don’t need advice, it’s rather our president and his Vice who need it.” one of the comments stated.

Most of the pieces of advice given called on new graduates to start their own businesses and travel out of the country if they get the opportunity, and learn tech skills that they can use to start their own businesses. Others were of the view that there was no hope for the fresh graduate and the youth of Ghana.

Questions and Answers: What’s your first advice for a fresh graduate in Ghana?

The following are the 13 top first pieces of advice for a fresh graduate in Ghana.

They are part of the key pieces of advice given to students graduating from Colleges, universities, and other tertiary institutions.

#1. Learn at least 2 professional skills and start freelancing. Connect with active workers, for now, not CEOs.

#2. Learn as many skills as possible and be tech-savvy. Examples of skills to consider are Graphic design, Mobile App Development, Blogging, Copywriting, etc.

#3. It is now time to learn well to get insights, advance your skills and apply your knowledge from your lectures.

#4. If you have the opportunity to travel out of the country, go and don’t look back. Leave this country after the mandatory national service to a country where the youth are prioritized. Save money and leave the country called Ghana.

#5. Look for scholarships abroad and travel.

#6. Run away from Ghana when you get the chance

#7. Start your own business, don’t wait to get employed. Don’t wait for someone to employ you, start a business and employ someone.

#8. Don’t believe in tie jobs.

#9. Find a street with the heaviest traffic area to start your traffic-selling business.

#10. Take your destiny into your own hands.

#11. Start by fighting for the implementation of the Constitution Review Committee report. If we get this changed, our future will be changed forever.

#12. Try to bring something out to help themselves because no government can help them unless they help themselves to be creative to bring something out.

#13 Use your brain, not your certificate.

As a blogger, I do full-time blogging and this is a skill I developed well and applied while studying at UPSA. I personally agree with the advice that students should learn tech-related skills. From graphic design, Website Design on WordPress, content creation skills, Social media Marketing, Search Engine optimization, and the use of AI tools, I have added value to what ever I learned in UPSA and these tech skills have been the game changer.

Hope these 13 pieces of advice for a fresh graduate in Ghana help those entering college or university as well as those graduating to take bold steps.

For those still in school and have at least one year to graduate, this is the time to learn at least two tech skills while in school and test their applicability in the world of business before you leave school.

READ: How College/ University Students Can Start Their Own Businesses Before Graduating

Also, build your entrepreneurial skills and start a small side hustle business while in school and manage it well.

This way, you will not be dependent on the government or other employers for jobs after school.

Source: Wisdom Hammond, Team Lead and Content Creator – Ghana Education News