Mr Ben Anamoh, Programmes Manager of the Opportunities Industrialization Centre International (OICI), has advised female students to adopt innovative ways to face the challenges of life.
He said some female students were allowing challenges such as heartbreaks, marital issues and child bearing to frustrate their efforts to
achieve success in their educational careers.
According to him, if women clothed themselves in such challenges, they get relegated to the background.
Mr Anamoh gave the advice in Tamale at the weekend when he addressed a symposium of female students of the Tamale Polytechnic at their Annual Women's Week celebration on the theme: "Empowering Female Students for a Brighter
Future".
The Youth Empowerment for Life (YEfL), a Tamale-based Non Governmental Organisation dedicated for the development of youth programmes, funded the programme, which aimed at helping the female students to unearth their
talents before they completed school.
The symposium was also meant to advise female students on the procedures for job application, interviewing skills and code of dressing and other courtesies during interviewing.
Mr Anamoh observed that most often women in their job search used their beauty as a ploy to men saying, "You have to respect your womanhood. Not every man that you smile to would offer you employment but if you study well, jobs will always be at your disposal."
He said some women also lacked the ability to communicate in public particularly during interviews and called on them to come out of their shells and compete with their male counterparts for academic excellence.
Mr Nelson Nyadia Sulemana, Programmes Coordinator of YEfL, said unemployment would continue to be a major challenge in Ghana and that the problem had made it cumbersome for even graduates to find jobs.
He said there were also ups and downs in job search especially with females and advised them to withstand all temptations in their effort to
look for work.
He called a national youth policy to help the youths to unearth their talents.
Mr Sulemana said YEfL through its sponsors, DANIDA and GV would continue to give the necessary support to youth programmes particularly in the north.
Ms Nancy Dery, the Tamale Polytechnic Women's Commissioner, appealed to institutions to always liaise with educational institutions when looking for graduates to employ.