Enticing skilled professionals to come home to Ghana and getting investors on board to finance development in the country were equal priorities at last month’s Ghana Careers Fair 2013.

Organised in London by the GUBA Awards, the event was attended by professional expatriate and diaspora Ghanaians scoping opportunities in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

And they were met not just with companies looking to woo them into taking a job, but the possibility of taking out their chequebook and investing.

One of the panellists speaking before the fair was Eric Vincent-Guichard, the founder of expatriate investing platform Homestrings — a fusion of heartstrings and homesickness. He says he is looking to tap into “that feeling that the train is leaving” among expats keen to make a difference back home.

“We have 2,000 investors on the platform, with the majority being Ghanaian, with an indicative annual investment portfolio of $25k (£17k),” he said.

While Ghana has a multitude of jobs on offer, conversely in the investment space “the challenge is on us” to accommodate all that available money, he added.

Another panellist, Roland Agambire, chief executive officer of Ghanaian telco firm RLG, said that his firm had seen “so much oversubscription of investor interest” in its Hope City IT hub development.

• See p19 of July's Recruiter magazine for more on Ghana’s needs.

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