Kesho Gooriah

About Me

Kesho Gooriah is the founder of Soft Skills Consultants (Mauritius) Ltd, a Mauritius Qualifications Authority recognised institution specialised in soft skills training. Since its establishment in March 2010, the institute has enjoyed the trust of more than 300 corporate clients and Kesho has trained over 2,500 delegates from both the public and private sector.

Kesho holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Career Development from the University of Napier, UK. He holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Soft Skills and Experiential Learning from Unimenta, UK and an MBA from the University of Surrey (Class 1999). He reckons 37 years’ experience in Mauritius and in the UK where he spent 7 years (2002 - 2009) teaching, lecturing and coaching foreign students.

Since April 2013, Soft Skills Consultants (Mauritius) Ltd is duly licensed by the Ministry of Labour, Human Resource Development and Training as a recruitment agency. The Career Development Centre provides the following services to students, job seekers and working adults looking for a career change:

·         Career assessment

·         Career coaching & planning

·         Personality assessments

·         Job fit assessments

·         Behavioural competency assessments

·         Job placement

·         Recruitment & Selection

·         Research in career development

Since 2012, the company has administered more than 300 online career assessments to college students in Mauritius and Rodrigues and assessed more than 500 employees for personality and job fit.

Kesho has been instrumental in the successful delivery of 12 projects under the National Skills Development Programme (NSDP) which is aimed at empowering young unemployed adults aged between 16 and 35 years with 21st century critical employability skills so that they can kick start their careers. Since 2010 Kesho is a subject specialist for the Tertiary Education Commission (now Higher Education Commission) and a member of the Faculty of Business & Management of the Universite des Mascareignes (2018).

Kesho has developed and designed the following Career Development Programmes:

·         Career Development Programme for Students

·         Career Development Programme for Graduates

·         Career Development Programme for Professionals

·         Career Development Programme for Vulnerable Adults

Kesho is a member of the following professional organisations:

·         Fellow of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (www.miod.mu)

·         Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute of the UK

·         Career Development Institute of the UK (www.thecdi.net)

·         Mauritius Association of Human Resource Professionals (www.ahrpmauritius.mu)

·         Association of Registered Professional Training Institutions (www.arpti.org)