Helping young people be workplace ready
Helping young people be workplace ready Grow Salone is a private company that provides professional skills training and recruitment services to tertiary graduates and employers in Sierra Leone. Through research and consultation with employers across different professional sectors we designed the Professional Skills Programme. The PSP is a full-time, 10-week intensive programme which is more than training; for our graduating students, it is a pathway to employment. Through the Professional Skills Programme we not only assess the academic performance of our trainees; but through direct observations, we collect over 2,500 data points across 75 indicators of behavioural and attitudinal performance relating to participation, mindset, approach and delivery. With this information we are able to provide detailed feedback and comprehensive skills reports to our trainees and to their future employers, supporting not only the learning process but the recruitment and ma...