An­drea Perez-Sobers

Se­nior Re­porter

an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Cor­po­ra­tion ( TTPost) has signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing with the Min­istry of Labour which would have 26 On-the-Job trainees (OJTs) brought in­to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

TTpost gen­er­al man­ag­er George Alex­is said yes­ter­day the agree­ment will help help the com­pa­ny piv­ot as it adapts to mod­ern de­mands.

“Man­age­ment recog­nised the po­ten­tial of a pro­gramme like this not on­ly in nur­tur­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of lead­ers but al­so in strength­en­ing our or­gan­i­sa­tion by in­tro­duc­ing fresh ideas and per­spec­tives. This is es­pe­cial­ly im­por­tant as TTPost tran­si­tions from tra­di­tion­al mail ser­vices to dig­i­tal and couri­er so­lu­tions.”

Alex­is not­ed that the postal com­pa­ny de­liv­ered sol­id third-quar­ter re­sults as it con­tin­ued to fo­cus on ex­e­cut­ing its client-fo­cused strat­e­gy by lever­ag­ing the dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture, deep­en­ing client re­la­tion­ships and pro­mot­ing a high­ly con­nect­ed work­force.

Alex­is al­so out­lined that the agree­ment aims to en­hance youth em­ploy­ment through struc­tured on-the-job train­ing and that the OJT pro­gramme will sup­port con­tin­u­ous im­prove­ment.

He added that trainees will re­ceive ro­bust sup­port, guid­ance, and re­sources for ef­fec­tive con­tri­bu­tion and pro­fes­sion­al growth.

Al­so speak­ing was Na­tal­ie Willis, the per­ma­nent sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Labour, who said that the pro­gramme helps by mak­ing the process of the ac­tu­al tran­si­tion, where­by young peo­ple, can smooth­ly ac­cess pro­duc­tive and de­cent work op­por­tu­ni­ties that make ef­fec­tive use of their skills to eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment.

“Our OJT grad­u­ates have been ab­sorbed by many of our train­ing providers, who have now tak­en a de­lib­er­ate ap­proach to part­ner with this pro­gramme, as a path­way in their suc­ces­sion plan­ning and tal­ent man­age­ment strat­e­gy,” Willis said.

She not­ed that the min­istry con­tin­ues to fo­cus on the pro­vi­sion of de­cent work, the fa­cil­i­ta­tion of in­dus­tri­al peace and op­por­tu­ni­ties for all, es­pe­cial­ly with the youth force de­vel­op­ment.

“The On-the-Job Train­ing Di­vi­sion cur­rent­ly man­ages a co­hort of over 5,000 trainees and over 1,000 reg­is­tered train­ing providers, com­pris­ing pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tors and NGOs,” Willis added.