- The opportunities on offer span graduate programmes and early career job openings.
- There will be 16 recruiting partners present at YES! Youth Energy Day, with four in each city.
EnergyNet has announced its inaugural Youth Energy Day (YES!), which will take place on November 10, 2023. The event serves as a bridge between firms seeking graduates and early career professionals to take their companies forward into the future. This includes those who may not have seen energy as a viable career path until now. The event will occur in a hybrid setting across Nairobi, Lagos, Cape Town and Cairo for an invited few and online for all through YES! dedicated Beyond Privilege platform.
YES! Youth Energy Day is a world-first and will host hundreds of people in person across all four corners of Africa, with the potential for thousands more virtually. With the support of a foundational partner, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), the event provides an opportunity for both public and private sector recruiters to showcase their ambitions for a cleaner future. This also includes the opportunities they have for young Africans to join their organisations.
The events, YES! Youth Energy Summit and YES! Youth Energy Day, hosted by EnergyNet, is part of the firm’s portfolio, focusing on creating a platform and network to boost the skills, connections and business readiness of a new generation of African energy leaders. EnergyNet has produced investment forums and executive dialogues for Africa and Latin America’s power sectors for the last 25 years – in Europe, the USA, Asia and across Africa and Latin America.
The opportunities on offer span graduate programmes and early career job openings. The scale of opportunity will be clear to the young people present, mainly due to the profile of the organisations in attendance. Some of the firms representing the industrial, financial and policy strands of energy seeking fresh ideas and talented young professionals include Nedbank CIB, Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, Schneider Electric, Standard Bank, Huawei Technologies, and South Africa’s IPP Office.
In total, there will be 16 recruiting partners present at YES! Youth Energy Day, with four in each city. The sessions will seek to promote ‘Tomorrow’s Jobs Today’, emphasising where Africa’s energy sector is in its evolution and the sheer diversity of jobs and skills its future progress will require. In addition, a series of Graduate Recruitment Spotlights will provide more individual context from the recruiting partners. There will also be panel sessions, talks and advice from other speakers and partners as numerous potential career paths are laid out and explained.
The Managing Director of EnergyNet, Simon Gosling, said, “Most youths worldwide don’t consider the energy sector a possible career path simply because they’re unaware of the opportunities or the hugely diverse and exciting jobs out there. Through the Beyond Privilege Platform, YES! Youth Energy Summit, and YES! Youth Energy Day, we can change that.”