5 new additions/ changes in your result display that we have made in June
We are permanently striving to increase our services for our clients. Most recently we have launched a new version of the results of the psychometric assessment to make them even more intuitive for students to read. Here is what we have done in particular.
The
learn-more section is the first place the students and youths go to view their
recommended jobs. Learn-more has
gotten a lot of new changes that were highly demanded by youths as well as
teachers. This page describes the 5 changes:
We have now illustrated
intuitively the self-employment graph. You can see easily see the percent of
the level of self employment in the entire Nepal for any given job.
The demand logo is now larger and clearer. We have also defined the demand differently. They are defined in 4 layers:
Very High Demand
High Demand
Low Demand
Saturated
If the counselor has seen your result and has recommended you jobs accordingly, you will see the tick beside your job. (The counselor recommends you job only when you have taken Assessment Basic or Assessment Deluxe)
There are multiple educational ways to reach the same career. We have illustrated that with 4 different colours:
Orange: Academic (e.g. Bachelors, Masters)
Brown: Diploma
Pink: TSLC
Blue: Training
We have created a system to view all the institutes (available in our system) in your selected district to study, all the courses, for the given job. If there no available institutes in your district, the hand signal is shown in red.
We hope that all this changes do increase the usability of the assessment. If you have further ideas on how we can make our online service more user friendly, please do not hesitate to send us an email to info@careerdishanepal.org
You have not yet taken the assessment? Go and take the test now and get the jobs which are personally recommended for you.
Thanks to the very engaged team CDN has achieved a lot in the last 5 years.
We do have an online and well running Job & Eductional Database, have conducted our psychometric assessment over 1100 times in various places and for very different clients and received a very positive feedback every time. (see our annual report section for more details)
Despite all the success we have had in the last years and the great feedback we received from all clients we have served, we are still struggeling to become financially stable. Sales have not been as expected and the overhead costs to keep the whole project team have eaten up all reserves which we have made.
Therefore this summer has brought a huge change in the overall structure of Career Disha Nepal.
We like to compare the old team with a catarpillar, who has been growing and had its role to play in grooming the organization ...
After much considerations and many board meetings and discussion with all team members, interns and volunteers we have made the hard decision to discontinue having a big team and rather continue with a slim core team, whic focusses on reaching out to more and new clients.
Old and New Roles
Hari, Inge and Saroj will continue in their role as board making strategic decisions for the organization.
Old and new team on a team building trip to Taudhaha with all board members and extended family ...
Nabina Phaiju, office manager of VHS Bhaktapur, will strengthen the team in regard to administrative works.
Directly below the board Nabina - managing VHS Bhaktapur successfully since a few years - will take a lead for all the operational works like administration, finance, marketing and communication with the help of Saroj, Hari and Kabita.
The second department active in Nepal will be the counseling department. Hari will take a lead in that sectore and Susma will help him. The department will be responsible for developing counseling material, conducting counseling and workshop and train career helpers on our tools. Also they will take over updating our job & educational database to the minimum which is required.
IT and technical works will be reduced to a minimum and taken care by Inge, working for CDN from Austria.
Inge will take make sure to maintain the website from Austria and improve the search engine requirements of the website. If required we will reach out to Patrick to add new functions to our page.
Among others we have decided, that we will not entertain a paid position for data collection and the maintenance of the database anymore. While we are still dedicated to keep our database up and running we can not entertain a paid position for that purpose till we are financially stronger again. We will try to get projects funds to run focussed and financed projects for boosting new data for our website in future. So if you are interested in supporting that aspect, we appreciate if you get in touch with us.
Also in the past we have provided internship and trainee positions for the IT and design department. It has shown to be very difficult though to suprvise trainee positions from Austria and to make use of that overhead costs in an efficient manner, so that we have decided to reduce these positions for the time being as well. Some of the interns decided to continue on a voluntarily basis, some others have taken that change as a starting point for their further academic education.
Since June 2019 our office is located inside VHS Bhaktapur building on the second floor.
As many rooms in VHS Bhaktapur are vacant over long period, we have decided to shift our office in the second floor of VHS building (and reach lunch faster 😉 )
During peak times we an use the class rooms which are empty during most of the day for volunteers and bigger team gatherings.
the bigger picture
We plan to establish an umbrella organization which will look after VHS and CDN both.
The board also this change also as a chance to bring both offices VHS Bhaktapur and Career Disha Nepal a bit closer together again.
We are
planning to establish a new umbrella organization soon, which should be above
both VHS and CDN. As a first step the above described administrative roles are
taken care by VHS admin staff. In a next step we plan to have those central
functions in the newly established umbrella organization. .
Outlook & hopes for the future
As initially described, we see that as a new start with a slimmer team. We hope to be able to establish long time client relations with many educational institutions in the next years so to reach a financially stable base income soon again and be able to slowly expand our team again.
By mid 2020 we hope to be break even in regard to the operative cost again and then slowly build up additional positions again.
If you would like to support us with a monthly contribution starting from USD 1 per month, we appreciate your contribution on our Patreon page.
“My name is Sunita. I am a management student of I.J. Pioneer High School. I choose my education based on holistic career counseling approach. I did not know what to study even after SEE. I got the opportunity to take the Psychometric Assessment through my friend. Assessment was the set of questionnaires that recommended me the list of jobs that I can pursue. I didn’t understand the Psychometric Assessment Result for the first time. Fortunately, to clear that confusion, Career Counselor took the group discussion session. That time I get to know that the recommended list of jobs appears based on my personality, professional orientation, interest and vocational tasks. The assessment doesn’t cover my physical strength and socio-economic backgrounds. However, the individual counselling after the result was more than I expected! After that session, I felt more comfortable to pick the education for a career that best fits me according to my interest, abilities, values and economic perspective. I am really glad that I have the logical reason to pursue an education track that I chose. I knew so many of my seniors who continued their education without understanding themselves clearly and studying further based on the SEE (Secondary Examination Education) grade and change the subject later. Fortunately, I did holistic career counseling on time and made the entire plan sitting with the experts to reach my destination. Otherwise, I might have been an unsuccessful story for my juniors. “
According
to British Association of counseling, they term counseling as the process
by which a person having a problem or needs to make a decision is facilitated
to identify, explore, and examine alternative courses of action and their
possible consequences.
Career
counseling is the process, generally focusing on issues like career and
education confusion, career goal, and career plan where career counselor and
counselee sit together and discus about the career and education track and explore
the individual career potentials, make career and education plan, and solve other
career related problems through question answer approach and psychometric tools
and techniques. Career Counseling session can be done either in a group and as
an individual.
In
every country, youth face the challenge of deciding on a career path and starting
their professional lives (Athanansou, 2008).
In Nepal, there is also an urgent need of career counseling for youth to
choose best fitting career according to the individual interest, abilities,
values, and socio-economic prospective and job demands. In our society most of
the youth tend to choose the career and education according to their friends
and relatives suggestion and also use to follow the trend. Most of the research
shows that pursuing a career based on individual interest and abilities leads
personal satisfaction and professional success.
Choosing
a certain career is one of the important decisions of one’s life which is often
tedious. Knowingly and unknowingly a wrong career decision leads to live the
40-50 years of life with the profession you don’t’t like.
One
of the career counseling beneficiaries, Pratima Tamang’ told us that “One-hour
session with career counselor played the revolutionary role to add more
excitements in my life. I was unknown about my career potential then. Now that
I am under proper guidance, I decided my career and education
make a career plan, know the responsibilities of the chosen career with the
help of career counselor.”
That’s
why career counseling for youth and adolescents is the beneficial to decide the
best fitting career, explore the potential, design the career life and to have
a successful and happy life.
“My name is Sunita. I am a management student of I.J. Pioneer High School. I choose my education based on holistic career counseling approach. I did not know what to study even after SEE. I got the opportunity to take the Psychometric Assessment through my friend. Assessment was the set of questionnaires that recommended me the list of jobs that I can pursue. I didn’t understand the Psychometric Assessment Result for the first time. Fortunately, to clear that confusion, Career Counselor took the group discussion session. That time I get to know that the recommended list of jobs appears based on my personality, professional orientation, interest and vocational tasks. The assessment doesn’t cover my physical strength and socio-economic backgrounds. However, the individual counselling after the result was more than I expected! After that session, I felt more comfortable to pick the education for a career that best fits me according to my interest, abilities, values and economic perspective. I am really glad that I have the logical reason to pursue an education track that I chose. I knew so many of my seniors who continued their education without understanding themselves clearly and studying further based on the SEE (Secondary Examination Education) grade and change the subject later. Fortunately, I did holistic career counseling on time and made the entire plan sitting with the experts to reach my destination. Otherwise, I might have been an unsuccessful story for my juniors. “
According to British Association of counseling, they term counseling as the process by which a person having a problem or needs to make a decision is facilitated to identify, explore, and examine alternative courses of action and their possible consequences.
Career counseling is the process, generally focusing on issues like career and education confusion, career goal, and career plan where career counselor and counselee sit together and discus about the career and education track and explore the individual career potentials, make career and education plan, and solve other career related problems through question answer approach and psychometric tools and techniques. Career Counseling session can be done either in a group and as an individual.
In every country, youth face the challenge of deciding on a career path and starting their professional lives (Athanansou, 2008). In Nepal, there is also an urgent need of career counseling for youth to choose best fitting career according to the individual interest, abilities, values, and socio-economic prospective and job demands. In our society most of the youth tend to choose the career and education according to their friends and relatives suggestion and also use to follow the trend. Most of the research shows that pursuing a career based on individual interest and abilities leads personal satisfaction and professional success.
Choosing a certain career is one of the important decisions of one’s life which is often tedious. Knowingly and unknowingly a wrong career decision leads to live the 40-50 years of life with the profession you don’t like.
One of the career counseling beneficiaries, Pratima Tamang’ told us that “One-hour session with career counselor played the revolutionary role to add more excitements in my life. I was unknown about my career potential then. Now that I am under proper guidance, I decided my career and education make a career plan, know the responsibilities of the chosen career with the help of career counselor.”
That’s why career counseling for youth and adolescents is the beneficial to decide the best fitting career, explore the potential, design the career life and to have a successful and happy life.
