• HOD Marketing, Dr. Kemi Oyefesobi
Ifedayo Ogunyemi
Heas, of the Department of Marketing, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Dr. Kemi Oyefesobi has urged MAPOLY undergraduates to become job creators and not job seekers.
Oyefesobi urged the students to combine the knowledge gathered in classrooms with their skills and talents in order to become ’employers of labour’.
The Marketing HOD stated this while receiving the State Executive Director, Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs (AYE), Joseph Adefisioye in his recently.
He also said that the polytechnic curriculum provides for all students to be taught on how to become successful in the industry.
“Marketing students aren’t supposed to be looking for jobs. They are supposed to be employers of labour, to create jobs. Employers and not employees.
“It is part of it. In education, in the domain of education. There is what we call the psychomotor. It isn’t not about theory but what you can do with your knowledge, your skill, your hidden talents.
“In the psychomotor domain of the brain, you add what you have been taught to your talents and combine the two and come up with practical things you can do on your own.
“Those that are educated achieve better results than those not educated, their businesses thrive.
“What he (Adefisoye) is doing is part of what they are being taught in school coupled with his psychomotor area of the brain. The two have being added to achieve what he is today.
“In the Polytechnic curriculum, we are to teach them and marketing as a course is not a course you study with the hope of working in the ministry of information or something. It is something you study to create jobs.
“Students upon graduation should look at how they can be self sufficient and how they can be employers of labour and not employees,” Oyefesobi added.