University leavers should not only be job seekers but job creators too.
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the government wants university leavers to take the initiative and start their own businesses, and not just be a job seeker.
He says some of them could be very good in IT and could develop an App and set up their own company.
Sayed‑Khaiyum says the government has set aside $2 million for a Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme, and when students come out of universities, they can put in their applications which will be assessed and they can be awarded a grant to start off their own businesses.
He says for the first time in Fiji’s history there has been a straight 10 year economic growth and that in itself has created jobs.
Sayed‑Khaiyum says the Reserve Bank has recently done a survey where they have reported that job advertisements have gone up by 15 percent.
He adds that there are not enough tradespeople in Fiji and there are construction companies in Fiji that are bringing in people from Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh to work for them.
He also says the workforce of any organisation should have recruitment based on the Open Merit Recruitment System.
He says previously in the Attorney General’s Office when there was no Open Merit Recruitment System, very few females were recruited.
But, according to him, after the introduction of the Open Merit Recruitment System, there were about 95% females in the first recruitment and 85% in the second.
Sayed‑Khaiyum says some politicians and people in Fiji think along ethnic lines, and that a certain batch of people were hired favoring the iTaukei, Indo Fijians or Kailomas.
