Month: October 2018

 

We conducted My Abilities sector of “My Future Pro” workshop for 9 young students studying in 9 grades residing in the Forum for the Welfare Himalayan Children (FWHC) on 6th October 2018.

My Future Pro, the self-reflective exercise book contains 3 major parts, My Interest, My Ability, and My Values. The exercises are designed to evaluate own self through individual past and present background, hobbies, priority, and perception of each and every event of their life. And help them to find a suitable career option accordingly.

Through “My Abilities” sector, students get detailed information about their abilities as well as their friends by doing different activities. My Abilities section help them to recognize their strengths, and how strengths are interrelated with individual interests and values.

During the session, students were curious to know their unknown and neglected abilities.  And our career counselor facilitates them to eliminate their queries by giving the relevant example. During the workshop, students presented the presentation, interviewed each other and share their opinion with their friends in the context of individual abilities linking with the different profession.

In the review session, students told that from now onward they are crystal clear about their future career and better able to decide career considering individual abilities. The program was run by CDN Career Counselor Hari Krishna Dahal.

We conducted My Abilities sector of “My Future Pro” workshop for 9 young students studying in 9 grades residing in the Forum for the Welfare Himalayan Children (FWHC) on 6th October 2018.

My Future Pro”, the self-reflective exercise book contains 3 major parts, My Interest, My Ability, and My Values. The exercises are designed to evaluate own self through individual past and present background, hobbies, priority, and perception of each and every event of their life. And help them to find a suitable career option accordingly.

Through “My Abilities” sector, students get detailed information about their abilities as well as their friends by doing different activities. My Abilities section help them to recognize their strengths, and how strengths are interrelated with individual interests and values.

During the session, students were curious to know their unknown and neglected abilities.  And our career counselor facilitates them to eliminate their queries by giving the relevant example. During the workshop, students presented the presentation, interviewed each other and share their opinion with their friends in the context of individual abilities linking with the different profession.

In the review session, students told that from now onward they are crystal clear about their future career and better able to decide career considering individual abilities. The program was run by CDN Career Counselor Hari Krishna Dahal.

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CDN has put an emphasis on combining online and offline solution as an integrated part of our strategy. Even though we know, that internet is not yet such a common place as in Europe, still around 54 % of the population are meanwhile using the internet and the advantages lie at hand.

By collecting all the information about jobs and educations online, they can be accessed from youth workers, teacher and youth from all over the country without having to carry around heavy folders with the same information in printed. While developing we have focussed on keeping the pages simple, so that low band with in rural areas does not hamper users to surf our comprehensive online information.

The advantage of digitalizing the psychometric assessment was even clearer at hand. One of the principles of psychological testing is that the test is conducted under standardized conditions and analysed in a similar manner. Having the test online is guaranteeing that every test is conducted and analysed according to this standard.

For those students, who do not have access to infrastructure to conduct the test online we also have thought about a solution. Our partners can access a protected area on our website in which they have the possibility to upload questionnaires which have been filled in paper. During our first joint project they get trained on how to conduct the assessment, how to upload the answers and how to retrieve the result from the system. Clients also can choose to receive their results via email as a PDF in addition to receiving it printed from their local career helper and also can later on at every time log in to our system and review their results from an internet café or similar.

Last but not least do engaged teachers or youth counsellors have the possibility to purchase our services in bulk for a whole class or group of youth. It is possible through our collaboration with ESEWA to do so from all districts in Nepal. Packages as cheap as Rs. 200 can be purchased directly in cash at one of the 25000 ESEWA-Agents, who can be found all over Nepal.

In short we have used online tools to guarantee high quality and standardized results for our psychological assessment and to be able to reach out to whole Nepal without establishing a costly physical infrastructure in a first step. All this has been possible because of great team work in CDNs technical team and a joint vision of what we want to achieve and where online tools can help us achieving that goal. A special thanks once again goes to Patrick Menke who with a very high degree of accuracy as well as dedication makes our technical dreams come true.

There are still many wishes on our bucket list, which help us to reach out to even more people and support Nepal’s youth even more effectively with our service. Things such as having a mobile version of our assessment, having a full text search all over our database or statistics for schools about their student’s needs can help us to fulfil our mission to provide youth from all over Nepal with quality career counselling tools.

For that sake we are currently looking for software developers, who are ready to support our cause by donating some hours of their valuable working time for us. Please help us finding someone by sharing our campaign on betterplace.org.

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If you facing the problem, not finding the job in your field then following steps will help you to increase your possibilities to be selected in the job you applied for. Follow these steps right away.

1. Review your resume

Have you ever checked your resume before you attached in the email to employers? The first suggestion is, do check your resume. Why? There might be hundreds of applicants for the respective job, generally, employers are looking for something interesting and creative. If you send the same type of resume that may not interest the employers. Do some effort to make your resume speak out loud. Tailored your resume according to each job you are applied.  Add and edit your all your qualification, experience, and skills you have gained yet.

2. Check your cover letter

The cover letter has higher chances to win employers heart. Good cover letter increases your chances to be selected for the next step, interview. Then what is a good cover letter? A good cover letter contains the reason why and how you are the best fit for the respective job. Don’t write a long story in out of the content. Write to the point to show employers that you are the right candidate for the respective job.

3. Search Matching Job

Have you ever sent job applications randomly and counting the number of jobs you are applied for? If you do so! You might wrong! Make sure the jobs you are applying are the best fit for your education, skills, and personality. If you apply for best fitting jobs then your chances to get a job can be increased. But, if you do not know what kind of jobs matches your skills and personality then take the psychometric assessment nearby which will help you to find the list of available jobs that match you best.

4. Well Preparation for the Interview

Before going to face interview be prepare why you like to work in the respective company, why the company activities are important to bring positive changes in the society. Make employers satisfied but don’t exaggerate. Researching thoroughly all about the company and the responsibilities of the respective position is the first things you should do if you call for the interview. And giving the logical answer for each question the employer asked is most essential. Be comfortable. If you have not any experienced in the respective field, share your opinion. Your convincing answer in the interview means, increasing your chances to be hired in the respective position.

5. Networking

Take the advantages of people you know around. Let your friends and family know that you are looking for the jobs. Talk to the person you meet in the different event and program. And follow up them until you do not find any jobs. Some of them take you seriously and help you to find the jobs form their network.

6. Internship

The internship is not only helping you to add experience in your CV, it also helps you to horizon your knowledge in the respective field and helps you to develop a social network to find the job. Most of the youth tend to think that completing a college degree and working for free is the waste of the time but keep in mind that most of the employers prefer to hire the candidates who have the experience in the respective field.

7. Don’t give up

You are not done with the career, only if you don’t find a job after applying so many. Have a faith! Just keep go on! Do not give up! Develop your skills and experience in the respective field. Keep searching the matching jobs and applied for it “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho

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