About this event

Mogadishu Job Fair is an important convention that targets to bring together Somali companies, entrepreneurs and both large and small business owners from trade market with an aim of networking, job creation, partnering, doing trades and sharing of entrepreneurial ideas. This job fair will also create a meeting opportunity between employees and the employers thereby serving as a one-stop career point in Somalia.

It marks an important milestone into the roadmap towards creating a platform for apprenticeships and employment within the Region. The highly interactive event will offer valuable information on apprenticeship, jobs and traineeship schemes within the region including a consideration of how projects implemented within the region can develop new employment opportunities. It will serve as a unifying convention that shall enable stakeholders refine their commitment of actions and pledges.

In 2019 Hano Academy in conjunction with the Ministry of Labor with the support of IOM held the first ever job fair in Mogadishu. The event brought together couple hundreds of people comprising of job seekers, the private sector, government agencies, and educational institutions, the panel discussions focused on how to harness employment and create more jobs for the unemployed graduates. The forum also discussed ways of providing relevant knowledge that rhymes with the changes at the modern work place. Institutes of higher education got a chance to dialogue with the end users of their products and learnt on ways of improving their services to meet the ever-growing demand for skilled workforce.

This year, Hano Academy in Collaboration with Khibrad Recuriment Agency, BaadiGoob, Saanqaad, BRA and Ministry of Labor will be hosting Mogadishu Job Fair 2020 on the 6^th of December, 2020 at Elite Hotel, Mogadishu, Somalia.

In response to agenda 2063 Somalia aims to create a conducive environment that enables creation of jobs and opportunities for her citizens. The achievement of this plan depends entirely on the country’s economic strategic plan that shall enable all participants to contribute effectively thus enhancing the pace of economic growth.

In January 2019 Somalia hosted the first National Economic Policy Forum[1] in which key plans on how to coordinate key economic pillars, stem corruption and involve key stakeholders in the revival of the country’s economy.

Mogadishu Job Fair has created a framework that aims at enhancing the performance of education systems and facilitating the entry of the youth into the labor market. It also aims at encouraging the youth to take up technical Vocational and engineering courses to be able to fit in the ever-changing labor market. Although the TVET Section declined with the fall of the government in 1991, there are new players in the field offering quality technical and vocational education that will help reduce unemployment. Institutions such as Hano Academy[2] have introduced market-oriented courses and are working towards filling the labor gap in the current economy.