‘Approach national service with positive attitude’

The acting Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Dr Michael Kpessa Whyte, has advised service persons to approach national service with a positive attitude and give off their best.

“The national service is to enable you to mingle with the larger society and experience the corporate environment as it applies in the real world as well as identify the job opportunities available at your disposal for your future carreer development,” he said.

Dr Whyte said this when he visited Nestle Ghana Limited in Tema to familiarise himself with how service persons were faring at work.

The visit was part of a programme embarked upon by the NSS to obtain feedback from both service persons and user agencies to help improve the scheme.

Positive attitude

Dr Whyte said that many service persons did not approach the national service period with a positive attitude and, therefore, did not put in their best.

He urged service persons not to see the service as paid employment but rather as part of their introduction to the corporate world.

Dr Whyte asked them to see the service as a training process that would open their eyes to various business opportunities inherent in the country and urged them to build their social networks now for their future.

Dr Whyte called on user agencies of service persons to report the misconduct of service persons for the appropriate sanctions to be given.

He commended the management of Nestle Ghana for their continuous support for the scheme.

Commendation
Ms Antoinette Arkoh, Head of Human Resource of Nestle Ghana Limited, commended the leadership of the NSS for the initiative of familiarising themselves with the kind of work the service persons were engaged in to improve on the scheme.

She said Nestle had since 2011 engaged more than 500 service persons and retained a number of them due to their competencies.

She said Nestle Business Services, which serves West and Central Africa, had retained about 95 per cent after their one year training and acquaintance with the company’s values and ways of doing things.