Month: September 2017

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Did you get guidance about suitable education and career plan according to your interests, personalities and abilities to find your dream job? Due to a lack of information and limited socio-economic circumstances, many young Nepali people don’t get this chance. Career Disha Nepal (CDN) acts to solve the existing problem of youth in Nepal by guiding them to select suitable education and career according to their interests, personalities and abilities. CDN aims to establish a motivated, enthusiastic and thus a successful youth in Nepal helping them to plan their career consciously.  With the huge engagement of our local team and the help of early supporters, we have already created a good basic for guidance. Yet the more we do, the more need we see and the more ideas we have. For creating the impact we hope for we need to still grow in terms of the area we cover as well as services we provide. To reach the tipping point, we need your help. Therefore, we have decided to go online with a Crowdfunding Project, start from 8^th of October which will end on the 5^th of November. WE will update you when our campaign is online.

What is Crowdfunding?

Crowdfunding is a way of raising money for an idea, project, enterprise or charity on an online platform. This is happening with the contribution and help of friends, families, customers as well as individuals who are interested in the idea. Crowdfunding platforms, social media and personal network are the main sources for approaching the people and gain their attention. For this purpose, we chose the online platform: Indiegogo. We are hoping to reach as many people as possible who would like to support to make bright future of the Nepali youth!

Why are we doing this Crowdfunding?

We are self-sustainable in terms of our basic monthly operating cost but we are not yet able to finance the development of new features, comprehensive data collection, research and development as well as developing partnerships in remote areas from the surplus we make.

We want to provide our services in 75 districts and reach at least 20% of the graduating students all over Nepal, by the end of 2019.  Moreover, we want to make CDN services easily accessible to the youth who live in and outside of the Kathmandu Valley with an affordable price for everyone. Therefore, YOUR help is needed. With your help, we would like to:

• Improve the features our software and website provides
• Collect even more fine-graded data about the job market.
• Spend time on exploring partnerships in more remote areas of Nepal

How can you help us?

Everyone can contribute to this campaign; your small effort can make a significant difference in young people’s lives in a long run. There are many ways to support us to reach our goal. You can help us by:

• Donating to our campaign
• Sharing the “Brighten Nepali Youth’s Career” campaign to your personal contacts through social media and help us to reach more Nepali youth to solve their career and education dilemma
• Following and subscribing CDN monthly Newsletter to be updated from our actions

So please spread the word: Happy and successful youth is our path for a developed Nepal.

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This year, 2074, the National Examination Board announced that 1,33,329 students passed the 12th grade while more than 50 percent students got an ‘F’. For many that mean students cannot continue their Bachelor level the same year. Along with that, both groups of students are asking what to do next?... Failing in an exam doesn’t mean that your dreams are broken or it is the end of the world for you.There are a lot of opportunities which you may not have realized yet. This article is for those students who were not able to pass their 12 grade. We would like you to be open to various options considering your situation.

If you are failed in the exams reappearing is the major things you would do.  But, before filling the form for re-examination think about YOU and your personality, interest, aptitude. Answer some self-reflective questions, what type of students are you?  What are the reasons for not doing so well this time?... What do you like to be in future? How might reappearing be important to accomplish your dream? … If you don’t have answers to the above questions, go to your teacher, whom you can interact openly and inquire.

But in other cases, If you think you are not the academically sounds students and you are certain that you will repeat the similar result, you have other options too.

1. Vocational Training

Vocational training is the short (160 hours) and long-term (390 hours or over a year) both type of professional training for the particular field. The benefit of Vocational training is that it provides relatively easy access to the job market. Generally, one can work in Agriculture, Art and Creativity, Engineering, Hospitality, Building and Construction's jobs sectors with vocational training. What you have to do is to find out your personality, are you interested to work in above sectors, are you practical person, do you want to have a job as soon as possible in those fields. If you think so, the first option might be the best fit you.

2. Internship

CDN 3rd advice to students who can’t pass 12-grade exams is an internship. The internship is the less paid or unpaid work to have an experience in particular fields that you are interested in. This is a practical way of learning to be more confident in the respective field. Through the internship, you can get experience to explore your ideas and develop confidence in your abilities. This also helps you to enlarge your personal network to get a job in near future. If you are still confused about which career to choose, then an internship is one of the options to know in details. On the other hand, if you have taken certain training in the particular field, want to expand your knowledge in the respective area to start own business then doing an internship is perfect for you.

3. Job

4^th option for those students whose financial condition is quite low, earning money is the highest concern than looking for a job is best for you. If you like to spend certain hours for work, you like to spend left time with family and friends then search the job in the market. At present, there are various higher paying jobs that only required minimum education, under +2., you have to work under the supervisor in the junior position but you get the money on hands. This link will give you detail information about Nepali job market. https://jobedudb.careerdishanepal.org/   Most of the junior positions jobs’ natures are applied rather than playful, that means most of the time you have to follow the existing structure and established methods of doing things. For an instant, receptionist, printer, data entry, salesperson to name a few.

4. Technical Diploma

If you think that your chosen subject in +2 was wrong, you preferred subjects are available in technical Diploma than go for it. A Technical Diploma course is equivalent to +2 levels. Generally, technical diploma programs take between 2 and 3 years to complete. One can begin a technical diploma after completing SEE (Secondary Education Examination). Technical Diplomas are useful for those interested in very specific subjects, like Civil Engineering, Nursing, or Architecture.

We believe that no jobs are small, your best performance in the area you have chosen is important to be a success. Follow above advice and realize what advice fits you better. Even if you are still confused then CDN is always here for you.

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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an Internet based course with limitless attendance. Meaning, anybody who has Internet access and the will to spend time on learning respective subjects, especially in IT and Economics MOOCs offer a lot,- can join a MOOC, most of the time even for free. Imagining how a MOOC looks like is easy because you can simply think of an ordinary university which has no physically present students and all its exams, lectures and exercises are solely done through the Internet. So far even highly recognised companies, as well as universities like Google and Harvard, have created MOOCs, mutually with MOOC-institutions (e.g. edX, Coursera etc.) because they all believe in MOOCs` original aim which is providing people of lower socio-economic statuses as well as of remote living areas with higher education. However, recent trends have revealed that rather citizens from developed countries (mostly OECD-states) exploit MOOCs in order to boost their own professional career.

But how are MOOCs actually helpful for professional success?

A recent research conducted by Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) shows that 72% of its survey’s respondents reported career benefits due to MOOCs. This includes promotions, job offers and general recognition of improved work. The reason for this kind of professional success is the fact that MOOCs are the only existing alternative to common universities or learning centres which are flexible and have no restrictions on time, guaranteeing calm, convenient and self-paced studying. You are the one who decides when you learn, how much you learn and most importantly what you learn. Especially, busy and already employed workers specifically demand this unique way of receiving higher education. They simply want to utilise the short time spent on taking the bus to work for learning a new skill precisely helping with their individual job or one specific issue, they actually have to solve right now. In this sense picking up samples of a suitable MOOC is not only more helpful than attending a whole semester at university, it makes you even a better worker in a comparatively short time which is why MOOCs are one of them if not, the most efficient way to get knowledge and thus a career benefit.

Even for people who now not hold a work place MOOCs could help their careers. Being unemployed is frustrating as one gets the feeling of permanently losing valuable time. This, however, can be compensated by MOOCs which are in this situation the best time spender to keep oneself competitive on the labour market. Use your spare time to the refreshing knowledge you already possess and by chance add even a new skill to your tool box. Getting a certificate for a newly achieved competence makes definitely sense for unemployed people who can now legitimately write down their recently gained skill in their CV. In this situation, MOOCs will enhance your competitiveness and might even bring the advantage which helps you, in the end, to actually get a job. Although big MOOC-institutions specifically consider employers` demand while building an online course, MOOCs are also helpful for students who already want to learn upcoming subjects or topics in order to be more successful in their universities.

To conclude, MOOCs are truly bringing advantages, improving one`s career in many regards. The best part about it is that one can choose for its own to which extent one wants to utilise MOOCs, making it nearly for everyone helpful and stress less. It still must be mentioned that the first and foremost requirement for a MOOC is creating oneself time and to be motivated enough to start and continue with a MOOC without relying on people from the outside pressuring YOU to actually do it.

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On the 6th of September 2017, Career Disha Nepal conducted ‘My Future Pro’ workshop to young students of grade 9 and 10, residing at Forum for the Welfare Himalayan Children organization, Bungmati. This workshop session was one out of 24 sessions of full year career centric activities program which started from 17^th of June 2017.

The exercise included in this workshop called ‘My Future Pro-I’ was designed to help students to identify their three major Interests, to know the steps to develop it, to realize the maximum hours a week they actually spend on each interest, to know ways to build their interest into a career. We have assessed that the students have a set of characteristics that lead their lives and they are most comfortable with. If a similar trend, as well as characteristics, can be found in their future career option the youth would be a) prepared to tackle problems themselves in their own special manner and b) there would be less friction while doing day-to-day tasks.

At the end of this workshop, students are clear about their own interest, the things they really like to do in their leisure time. Students felt pretty amazed by knowing their interest can be turned into a career. Students told us that “this self-reflective exercise realized our personal background profile, the past, present and its link to the future career expectation.”

This interactive group tool workshop was facilitated by CDN Career Counselor Hari Krishna Dahal and CDN Content Writer Shrijana KC.

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To make career counselling accessible to Nepali youth all over Nepal, CDN is paving its path to work together with partners of various backgrounds. We have started our partnership with a community learning centre as well as an NGO which is aiming for gathering Nepali volunteers from all over Nepal; VHS and Himalayan Climate Initiative (HCI).

VHS Bhaktapur is a community learning centre, working with innovative approaches and openness for various sectors to create a new understanding of informal education in Nepal. VHS Bhaktapur is incorporating career counselling by providing the opportunity to all their members, as well as the youth. Since VHS and CDN have similar principles regarding more informed youth and transparent society, our relationship has deepened.While another partner organization HCI (Himalayan Climate Initiative) is a youth driven Nepali Non-profit organization committed to creating social inclusion and climate resilience. Furthermore, we are glad to announce that we brought the partnership with HCI to the next level as we have successfully conducted a first prototype workshop with its team members and volunteers. We are looking forward to a long lasting and mutually beneficial partnership with both of them.

We know that in order to create well-informed youth who are conscious about their career, we have to interject and introduce holistic career counselling to every possible youth related organizations and institutes. VHS and HCI are the pioneering organizations that have advanced with integrated career counselling. We are looking for more.

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Career Disha Nepal’s target has always been to reach the most number of youth who are in dire need of career counseling and education-based guidance. The past year we have catered youth from within the valley, and had to reject youth that were outside our vicinity.

However, we now have expanded our reach to even the most rural part of Nepal via the support of the largest online payment service provider, ESEWA.To reach the youths who cannot appear physically in the CDN Head office Bhaktapur to get basic career and educational guidance, we have integrated eSewa in our website. Not having international online payment providers in Nepal eSewa is the one encouraging cashless payment system.  eSewa is a first digital payment platform in Nepal which allows one to make online and offline payments to various merchandises, transfer funds to various banks and top up the balance in cell phones, pay internet bills, buy airplane tickets, deposit credit card amounts, pay college and school fees and shop using mobile phone or internet.

At present, eSewa has more than five lakhs users.   Now, anyone can pay through eSewa to receive counseling and educational guidance. Youth now can choose between our services; Assessment Slim, Assessment Basic, and Assessment Deluxe, each considering a specific demographic. ‘Assessment Slim’ where students can get personalized online results with recommendations based on 350+ jobs ‘Assessment Basic’ where students know their personalized online results with recommendations based on 350+jobs with 10-minute phone call counseling and a printed or PDF results with the top 10 recommended jobs. . And ‘Assessment Deluxe’ where students get personalized online results along with 45 minutes individual career counseling with a trained career counselor.

We know that teachers as well other educational stakeholders might be interested in providing their students with career and educational guidance. We are expanding our other services and breaking the geographical barrier via eSewa that will cater Schools and Institutes in the coming date.

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The most popular examination that decides your future regarding your academic life- +2’s result was out on the 30^th of August 2017. The students have been waiting for their result for about 4 months. For some, it came as a relief and for some as a grief. More accurately, 48.17 percent students made their way successfully while the rest did not.

Comparatively, in the last two years, the students passing their +2 in Management, Humanities and Education faculty has been flexible. As in the year 2072, 30.99 percent of students succeeded and in 2073, 48.17 percent students are succeeded.

We empathize with the students that could not make through. However, we understand that this trend has been fluctuation in the last three years, and it could be due to various reasons. One of the most basic reasons that we have found (for this trend) is the lack of interest and passion for the subject.

Considering this fact, it is beneficial if the students give it a hard thought about moving forward with their educational career. Questions to ask yourself:

• Do I see a career option after completing this subject that I am passionate about?
• Do I think that I am incapable compete in the labour market for the jobs that are available for this education?

These questions are consequential more than ever for not only those who did not make it through their +2 but also for those who did.

Now, 13, 3329 students are in search of stepping toward their future career.  Which subject to go and which college to continue further study? To those students, CDN education and career database, https://jobedudb.careerdishanepal.org/ will be crucial.