Mr. Ben Anamoh, Programmes Manager of the Opportunities Industrialization Centre International (OIC), has appealed to female students to adopt innovative ways of doing things to achieve success.
He said some female students were allowing heartbreaks, marriage and child bearing to frustrate their efforts at achieving success in education.
Mr. Anamoh said this 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), Tamale based NGO dedicated to the development of youth programmes, funded the programme that aims at helping female students to unearth their talents before they complete school.
The symposium was also meant to advise the female students on the procedures for job application, interviewing skills and code of dressing and other courtesies during interviewing.
Mr. Anamoh said most often women in their job search used their beauty as a ploy to men.
"You have to respect your womanhood. Not every man that you smile to would offer you employment but if you study well jobs would always be at
your disposal."
He said most of the women also lacked the ability to Mr. Nelson Nyadia Sulemana, Programmes Coordinator of YEfL, said unemployment would continue to be a major challenge in the developing world such as Ghana.
He called for a national youth policy to help the youth to unearth their talents.