The Oshikoto Directorate of Education, during this year's regional annual Career Fair, engaged 115 schools within eight circuits.
The Career Fair Roadshow, which commenced in June, benefitted between 20 and 600 learners per school in the region.
The regional school councillor, Hilma Iyambo, said the career fair is beneficial because it guides learners in choosing professions that align with their fields of study.
Even those in grade 8 will make better choices with fields of studies, so it is helpful because they are exposed to different careers; they will make the right choices because they are well guided. I can say it yields results."
Grade 10 learners share what stood out most for them during the career fair and its significance.
"Career fair events are very important as they help learners make informed decisions about their career choices, because some learners in Namibia choose subjects that are not in line with the careers they wish to pursue."
"I want to become a lawyer, and this career fair helped me so much; I was motivated to study hard. We were advised to choose unique careers and professions since careers such as nurses or teachers have too many people."
Lorra Amwiigidha, a Life Skills subjects teacher, says of the career fair, "It provides an interactive platform where the learners can be advised by people with expertise on the subject courses they can pursue. One can be doing the commerce field while wanting to become a medical doctor; commerce and being a doctor do not align. However, with the help of this platform, they can get the best advice."
Clinical psychologist Lovisa Nghipandulwa says wrong fields of studies could lead to bad career choices and long-term consequences.
"We have seen scenarios of children who ended up in fields of studies that were not well aligned to their strengths, and as a result, they were locked up in specific career choices that they could no longer run away from because that is what they found themselves in."
The career fair has been in existence for the past ten years.