Graduate membership and professional certification, diploma, advanced diploma and postgraduate diploma (PGD) programmes of Nigerian Institute of Production Management (NIPM) help organizations to have people with the right competencies for production and operations management jobs.

Reason why most young graduates don’t get hired is mostly hinged on lack of the skills and competencies that match the jobs they apply for. Manufacturing is a serious business. You don’t put the wrong peg in the right hole!

Nigerian Institute of Production Management (NIPM) has been playing a key role in strengthening organizations to train and develop people so that they will continue to have the right talent working for them now and in the future.

The Graduate Trainee Programme (GTP) usually involves intensive training for graduates with fantastic opportunity for transitioning from the University or Polytechnic to the workplace, learning career path- related skills, mentoring, counselling and guidance by senior member(s) of staff, gaining real world experience and experiencing continuing professional development.

Apart from ensuring that organizations have a regular supply of manpower for diverse entry level positions in an affordable manner, a properly planned and implemented Graduate Trainee Programme (GTP) helps organizations to fix the right people into critical roles and recruit a diversified workforce with fresh perspectives and positive energy.

GTP helps organizations to manage staff turnover, deal with change, promote innovation and build future leaders.

One of the leading manufacturing companies that NIPM has worked with in Nigeria to execute a very effective Graduate Trainee Programme is Seven Up Bottling Company Plc.

The Manufacturing Management Training Programme and the Learning Contents of 12 Modules has remained a reference point for GTP implementation across the nation’s manufacturing sector over the years.

● Below is photograph showing (from right to left) NIPM President Dr. Olaniyi Opanuga who facilitated as the Managing Consultant and Chief Trainer of Optimum Resources (Consultants) Limited with the Seven- Up management trainees- Igbinogun Amenaghawon, Oroye Emuakpo, Eze Ernest Chidiebere, Ogunwale Adefemi, Aboyade Olusegun, Omeru Longlife, Olalekan Ige, Fatoba Olusegun and Akhazemea Joshua at Seven Up Bottling Company Plc Training Centre in Ijora, Lagos in 2007.