Sandvik Mining has since 2005 spent over 590,000 US Dollars for the training of technicians at the University of Mines and Technology to help provide relevant skills for the mining industry.

Mr Chris Brindley, the President of Sandvik, Africa, said this was part of the company’s corporate social responsibility policy, adding that from 2009 to 2011, the company had contributed a total of 62,000 dollars to rehabilitate the dormitory block of the Tarkwa Midwifery Training School.

He was speaking at a career fair organized for the students of International Community School (ICS) at Pakyi near Kumasi saying Sandvik Mining was re-locating its West Africa and Ghana Offices to the area and holding the career fair was a move to establish a healthy relation with the school.

He said the event was also a programme to assist the school community to appreciate the role of the company its scope of work as a high technology engineering group that manufactures and markets world class mining products.

Mr Brandley said “for Sandvik, remaining profitable and sharing our success is dear to our hearts. For us it is not a favour we are doing. It is our right to do so. We understand very well our corporate behaviour”.

Representatives of the departments within the company including business department, finance, services, inventory and logistics and human resource took turns to discuss the various requirements for employment in their areas.

The Director of the ICS, Dr Charles Yeboah, said the linkage between industry and school would be enhanced with the locating of the company’s office in the area.

He said “it is not by accident that ICS, a school that constantly looks for ways of doing things differently and Sandvik, a company known for its innovative approach to business happen to be located side by side”.

Mr Nuhu Salifu, the Human Resource and Administrative Manager for Sandvik, West Africa, said the career fair was “all about building relationships and to help our young ones know what prospects there are for them in an organization like ours”.