Empowering the Sri Lankan Youth with Higher Education Options, Career Guidance and Job Opportunities.

EDEX, Sri Lanka’s oldest, largest and premier Education Expo & Job Fair has grown and evolved into a household name in the education sector, staying true to its mission to guide students throughout the country by creating awareness of the vast choices and opportunities available in post-secondary education, leading to gainful employment anywhere in the world for the Sri Lankan youth, thus helping them achieve their career ambitions and life goals.

The EDEX Expo is the ideal platform for the youth to take the first step in a long and fruitful journey to reach the pinnacle of success, making the right decision with full knowledge of all the options available to them. EDEX Careers offers free psychometric testing facilities, conducted by professional career guidance counsellors, helping the participants determine the best career paths suited specifically for them, based on their individual personalities and character traits. Additionally, the Career Guidance Seminars conducted by leading professionals and subject experts, covering key trending topics, will help participants gain knowledge and insights in to the respective areas, fields and industries.

The EDEX Expo Job Fair offers participants the chance to get a first-hand look at the job opportunities available in the market, while also having the possibility of on-the-spot interviews and even immediate recruitment. In addition, the youth (school leavers & first time job seekers), could get valuable guidance on the qualifications and experience etc. required to get a job in their chosen field in specific organisations and insights on what it’s like to work in these organisations.

The EDEX Expo thus offers a complete, comprehensive offering, staying with the youth of the country as they transition from School Leavers to Undergraduates and then on to launch their careers, joining the corporate sector ready to take on any task or responsibility given to them, going from strength to strength, to reach the pinnacle of success in their careers. Therefore it is very crucial that the youth, especially those immediately after their O/L or A/L examinations, looking to start their higher studies or step in to the corporate sector, visit the EDEX Expo first, so they’re certain they’ve made the right decision, with all options available being taken into consideration.

In addition, the EDEX brand is not limited to the Expo., but also extends to other areas of importance, namely; EDEX Think Green, which initiates and encourages ‘Green’ Initiatives, one of it’s main, currently ongoing projects being handing out potted plants to students entering Royal, encouraging them to care for and maintain the plant, which grows along with them as they progress through their time in College | EDEX Sithuwam, which holds an Art Competition for kids (all those under 18), throughout the country, which has become a household name, eagerly awaited in many homes having kids with artistic capabilities all over the island | EDEX Entrepreneur, encouraging and guiding budding entrepreneurs to achieve their goals and realise their dreams, which also results in more employment for the citizens of the country.