employers to help in finding summer jobs for Bermudian students.

Mrs. Gilda Furbert, who was speaking to Rotarians at their weekly luncheon at The Princess hotel, said this would be beneficial to the students seeking jobs and to the employers who hired them as they would find themselves "being enriched with new and fascinating ideas''.

She added that employers would also "be allowed to complete unfinished projects as well as initiate new ones''.

"Our students are phenomenally talented and gifted,'' Mrs. Furbert said, "and the Government Employment Service has no doubt that the knowledge, values and skills they are acquiring along with their summer job experience will help to equip them for the challenges of the ever-changing business market as we move toward the 21st Century.'' Government's annual employment scheme had been in place for 25 years and many of the students that had been placed by the service worked out so well that they were hired back year after year, she added.

Since that success was the employment service's primary goal, Mrs. Furbert said, it had launched a new approach to secure jobs for the 750 to 800 students seeking summer employment this year.

Noting that some employers were already committed to hiring Bermudian youth for the summer, she said she believed other employers needed a little encouragement to give students a job.

As a result of this Government had hired two Bermudian students -- Mr. Marvin Trott and Mr. Jamaine Tucker -- from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia as marketing representatives for the Employment Office.

"These young men have been making contact with employers with a view to bringing together employer and student in a successful employment situation,'' Mrs. Furbert said, adding that Government had held workshops in various high schools to prepare students for summer employment.

Issues covered in the workshops included resume writing, interview skills, individual career goals, and personal traits such as grooming and behaviour.

Mrs. Furbert explained that the workshops were set up to give students specific help in career planning and job placement which would also help employers fill summer vacancies as quickly as possible.

Mrs. Gilda Furbert