Tigo HR Managers across Africa empower staff in Ghana

As part of efforts to empower its staff to push on their business transformation agenda, Tigo has brought together all its Human Resource Managers across Africa and UK to mentor and offer career guidance services to its employees in Ghana.

The HR Managers from Chad, Senegal, DRC, Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania and London will among others discuss with employees the range of jobs available in the various Tigo operational markets across the region and globally.

The three day event which begun December 2, 2014 at the in Accra has several other high profile and widely-experienced professionals such as Prof. John Kobla Aheto, a former dean of the University of Ghana Business School. Participants will also have one-on-one sessions to discuss their career aspirations and get coaching on how to achieve them.

The Africa HR Director for Millicom, the parent company for Tigo, Ayotade Oyinlola, emphasized that Tigo remains committed to driving growth and becoming more efficient in the market and experienced employees were essential to that.

“Helping employees to build a sustainable career is key to the transformational agenda of our brand, we need the best people with the right skills and right attitude”, he said.

The HR Manager for Tigo Ghana, Elizabeth Arhin, said, “We are one of the few employers in Ghana that consistently offer several regional and global opportunities for our employees to work in other markets. It is therefore essential to offer them guidance such as this which will enable them take advantage of our numerous opportunities to become experts and global citizens”.

Tigo was the first telecom operator in Ghana and for more than 20 years have invested heavily in developing several young talents into telecom experts.