Author: Shrijita Chaulagain

Do YOU want to discover full extended career potential in your youth?

‘Career Helper Training’ is the first level career counseling training course for YOU, Educators, youth workers, teachers, and for those who want to be an entrepreneur in the field of counseling. The five days long, ‘Career Helper Training’ provided by the 1^st holistic career counseling center, Career Disha Nepal  to help Nepalese youth to be more empowered, informed and successful in their career through YOU.

If YES!

This training is for YOU!

Grab the opportunity to optimize your skills to explore youth highest potentialities and provide them career and education solution in the better way.

What background knowledge I need to have?

• A basic working knowledge of computer.
• Intermediate knowledge about education and career. Some beginner knowledge about psychology would be amazing too.

What skill-sets would I gain?

• You will be the first contact person for career and education based issues for youths.
• You can be an entrepreneur for providing reliable education and career information.
• You can optimize your counseling skills through ‘Career Helper Training’ to explore youths’ highest potential and provide them much-needed solutions.
• You will be able to use job and education information by using CDN’s advance online portal, job and education database.

Why ‘Career Helper Training’ is essential for me?

• To unlock the youth’s career potential by using latest psychometric tools and techniques in the career counseling field in Nepal.
• To explore the key concept of youth psychology.
• To be able to hold, organize, and coordinate career orientation workshops.
• To be able to assess youth and help them to take the right education and career decision.
• To upgrade your career in counseling sector.

I am already a professional counselor, do I need ‘Career Helper Training’ again?

Off course, YES! You will be introduced with new, scientific and technical psychometric tools and techniques to update yourself to find your youth’s maximum career and education potential.

How much cost for ‘Career Helper Training’?

It cost only Rs 10,000/- with excluded Vat.

Why is the ‘Career Helper Training’ so expensive?

It's not if you look closely! Including counseling tools and techniques, you will get free 15 Psychometric Assessment codes that cost equal to Rs.3000/- to find out individual personality and recommended list of careers . Not only that you will be provided sub-admin portal in our job and education database, where you can entry the assessment data and use full job and education information.  And also, you will get free lunch, snacks and preferable drinks coffee or tea. What do you think about it?

Is this a onetime thing?

            No, if there are any difficulties to use counseling tools and techniques, data entry, and other CDN services, we will be there to assist you till you are expert in this field.

I think this training might be boring?

            Absolutely not, we don’t like to use word training; we rather call it interactive collaborative discussion. We practically learn how to use games to find out youth potential in friendly environment. So, you will be enjoying the session as well as develop your skill to present yourself to create excitement in front of youth.

For more information, please call us on 01-4532383, Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 3.00 pm.

A summary for one’s education, professional history and job qualification for a prospective employer must follow different format and content rules. Here there is a short overview of what we think is necessary.

What is a CV?

A Curriculum Vitae is a document where you write the summary of all your educational, professional skills and job qualifications, also you can write about you, who you are?…What are your hobbies?…Where are you from?…. How many languages do you speak?… everything that will make you to be on the top of the list for the job you’re apply for.

Why do I need one?

In the whole world, for any kind of job you’re looking for, you will need a CV because it’s the fastest way for a prospective employer to find the right person for a vacant post. Once created, you can send the CV to different enterprises to maximize your success and find the perfect job corresponding to your qualifications.   

How to prepare a CV?

There are different ways to prepare a CV, but the beginning is always the same. You must provide:

1. Complete Name
2. Address & Phone numbers
3. Age &Marital status (if the work takes place abroad, etc…)
4. Overview about your educational experience
5. Overview about your work experience
6. Proof and testimonies
7. References

When those information is done, you can choose what type of CV you would like to use. There are many templates existing, so you don’t have to spend your time in editing the text. Just have the content ready.

Here you can find some examples: http://www.dayjob.com/content/blank-cv-template-630.htm

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With your CV, it’s highly recommended to send a Cover Letter.  In this letter, you will explain, why you want to work for this company and what your motivation is. You have to send the cover letter with CV through email, post office or deliver it yourself to the related office.

You must remember that the CV will be the only document that will allow you, perhaps, to get the job you want. So be aware of giving just the right information in the correct way. Your future employer may control your references.

When you get invited for an interview you must know all the details of your CV by heart. And present yourself proud of what you already experienced in education or labor market.

Don’t forget: After tailoring your CV, you have taken the first step at making a career decision for your career. If you want to be more than just an employee, try to apply for a job where there are higher possibilities to flourish your inbred abilities and that meet your interests. To know scientifically which career fits you best with your personality and interest take our Psychometric Assessment. It has helped 1500 youths in Nepal, it might help you too: http://assessment.careerdishanepal.org.

We conducted holistic career counseling, “Career Orientation”, “My Future Pro”, “Motivational Session”, “Psychometric Assessment” and “Individual Career Counseling” for 10 youths residing in Himalayan Children’s Charities (HCC) to help them to make right career decision on right time and become independent what they are inherently made for.

HCC is a compassionate, global community of professionals, philanthropists, and the students in their programs. They empower youth in Nepal who have lost homes and families but not the desire to become educated, self-sufficient and contributing members of their communities. They mentor orphaned and abandoned children in Nepal to achieve sustainable paths to success, creating the next generation of professionals, leaders, and change makers.

The beneficiaries youth of HCC were those who had just appeared SEE (Secondary Education Examination), waiting for result and wondering about what to study after SEE. After participating in 3 days holistic career counseling session youth are better able to choose their best fitting career according to their individual passion, values, abilities and competencies.

5 new additions/ changes in result display that we have made in June,2019

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 hope that all this changes do increase the usability of the assessment. If you have further ideas on how we can make our online services 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

Knowing the ground reality of the labour market is essential to provide quality career guidance for us. For that sake we have conducted a pilot field research in Jumla which had two aim:

Firstly, to gather more data about the potential of Jumla’s labour market now and in future. Secondly we wanted to test our core service: the interest based psychometric assessment in the setting of Jumla and assess the feasibility to work with local partner organizations.

For that Purpose Inge Patsch and Sagar Ghimire have been traveling from 5.3.2017 till 13.3.2017 to Jumla. Sushil Devkota from RACE Nepal was our local contact point and helped us arrange various meetings as well as the workshops in the schools. We furthermore could use their local office as a workplace.

The format for assessing the labour market seems to work well. Further similar research should be conducted in other districts of Nepal got get a more refined picture of the labour market. In most interviews with government officials, they first would start to tell us the number of governmental employees. While training enumerators we should emphasize therefor that they dedicatedly ask their interview partner for employment in public and private sector.

In terms of data collection we could conclude, that the current format serves well to assess the demand in the labour market for most sectors. For further interviews we can note that especially for interviewing governmental officials it is useful to bring an official letter (partnership with ILO?) to access them as some of them were hesitant sharing their insights with them (we did NOT ask them any personalized data though).

Also this requires sufficient time in the field as it might take several days to get the appointment with the right person. It is important to report those officials who have been working in the district for a longer period, as most information were drawn from their memory rather than official documets.

The watchadoo videos were rather easy to produce as long as one does not strive for perfect video or audio. While the footage made outside was having an nice picture, it was a challenge to get the clear sound (even though we used an audio-device directly next to the person to record it. The inside video has the challenge of the worse lightening. People were spontaneously able to give the interview and we did all of them in a one shot. For some we repeated single questions in a second shot.

The logistic of doing the workshops and taking the assessment in such remote areas is a challenge but doable. It requires sufficient time for processing. Assessments and Job & Edu Booklets are best prepared beforehand so to not have to rely on the online job & edu DB in the field.

A bigger challenge would be to find and to keep connected with local partners. We left the field without any specific agreements on any further cooperation. CDN would need to develop a clear concept on how local partners can overcome technical hurdles to use our system as well as how to train and prepare them. Last but not least we need to find organizations which dedicately are involved in career counselling and youth guidance and figure out which other tools they would need that the online assessment becomes a feasible instrument for their works. The development of a business case which works for CDN as well as for the local partners seems one important big next step.

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