(Business in Cameroon) - In Cameroon, the launch of big infrastructure projects in the past years has boosted the building and civil engineering sector to the head of sectors which recruit the most in the economy, the Managing Director of the Fonds National de l’Emploi (FNE – National Employment Fund), Camille Mouthé à Bidias revealed in an interview given to the pro-government daily newspaper (photo).

Along with civil engineering, Camille Mouthé à Bidias listed the service sector, in which the most currently sought after profile is in marketing. “The good health of the banks also leads them to recruit”, the MD of FNE stressed, also listing agriculture, the hotel business, catering and ICT among the major providers of employment in the country.

Dwelling on ICT, the MD of FNE specified that this is a “rapidly growing” sector. But, to capitalise on the job opportunities provided by this sector, young Cameroonians would be better off getting “varied and quality training (…) being inventive and creating new communication channels, but also not hesitate when they have the capacity and skills, to create start-ups or simple small enterprises in this vast sector, by avoiding concentration on big cities while the demand remains huge in smaller cities”.

BRM