Hoapei Yang is a 26-year-old China-born Guyanese who has just created skilledguyanese.com, a website that seeks to significantly improve the process of bringing employers and job-seekers together. The site allows skilled persons to discover and apply for job opportunities in local entities.
Yang says that he wants the website to maximize the opportunities open to skilled Guyanese to take up positions at home.
The former Mae’s Secondary and University of Guyana student hopes that his website will prove as attractive to public and private sectors entities seeking to attract qualified specialists in various disciplines as it will to job-hunting university graduates and remigrants.
Skilled persons, Yang says, can visit the website to determine which entities are hiring and peruse their lists of jobs. The site allows for persons to create resumes on-line and use these to apply for several jobs simultaneously. When the prospective employer opens and views a submitted application the applicant receives
