Category: CDN Activities

We conducted parents’ orientation, Labour Market workshop, Psychometric Assessment, and Individual Career Counseling for 18 students of Children Home, Tathali.

In the first day, we discussed with parents of ‘Children Home’. The aim of the parents’ orientation was to help the parents to help children to orient educational choices they can have according to their interest, abilities, and values.

In the same day, we conducted Labour Market workshop to the young students. Students were really excited to know about the vastness of Nepali job market. The workshop started with ice-breaker game to be familiar with the students. At the same time, we divided the students into different groups where they discussed about the different job sectors in Nepal.

From the fun learning workshop’s session, students got to know about the available jobs, employers, ideal qualities, and respective job activities for 20 sectors. In the first day, there were 3 facilitators to eliminate the career queries of the youths.

In the second day, the students took Psychometric Assessment which is one of the career counseling tools, used to find career options based on individual personality, professional and vocational orientation along with interest in tasks. The last day, we distributed counselor recommended Psychometric Assessment results along with individual career counseling where the youths were able to personally talk to the career counselor to understand their personality in detail as well as list out the career and education options for future.

These 3 days program helped youth to know about themselves better and the career option they can follow.

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We conducted “Career Orientation Program” for students who have recently completed SEE at Creative Secondary School, Bhaktapur. The aim of the Career orientation program was

• To inform students the importance of having certain career destinations
• To help students to know individual interest, strength and values
• To inform students the interlink between respective career and education

In the interactive orientation, we discussed various examples to clarify how chosen education is going to be important to make individual life happy, successful and satisfied simultaneously.

In the orientation, we found students to be curious about their possible career options and they questioned on the respective topics too. 16 students joined this orientation program to deepen their knowledge on certain education selection before jumping to them.

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We conducted “Career Orientation Program” for students who have recently completed SEE at Creative Secondary School, Bhaktapur. The aim of the Career orientation program was

• To inform students the importance of having certain career destinations
• To help students to know individual interest, strength and values
• To inform students the interlink between respective career and education

In the interactive orientation, we discussed various examples to clarify how chosen education is going to be important to make individual life happy, successful and satisfied simultaneously.

In the orientation, we found students to be curious about their possible career options and they questioned on the respective topics too. 16 students joined this orientation program to deepen their knowledge on certain education selection before jumping to them.

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If you chose to continue reading this article due to the title, you are most probably EITHER already working with social media to advertise and be heard in the social media OR you want to dip your finger in the social media and want to know what works.

Here is our list of 8 things to do NOW to BETTER reach your audience digitally. You can find more things if you look around, but we believe that if you cover these 8 points, you are ready to roll.

[fruitful_tabs type="accordion" width="100%" fit="false"] [fruitful_tab title="1.Recognize your target"] You can try to sell a luxury car to a 6 year old, but the sales might not reach your objective. You knew that, but unconsciously you might be blind about it. Recognizing your target audience is a step forward for letting them know what you have to offer to them.

Use tools provided by social media to find what your target like, how old they are, where they live, and more. You can start by creating an avatar of your audience and recognizing them will invariably change the way you interact with them. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title=" 2. Personalize your content according to your audience"] A deep philosophical book might not be the right birthday gift to your 6 year old niece. You might have a lot of thoughts that went into the gift, but it will not be as appreciated. Believe me, I have tried!

Listen, youths love watching videos (not all, but most). Maybe there is a way to make that old boring text into a video. If not, make it into a digestible image. Observe how your audience receive your posts; if they seem to like videos, make more of that. No need to compromise the content, but the personalizing it is a start. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="3. Use the right tone and language"] So ya’ll, da nxt one’s abt how 2 use lang and tone 4 gettin’ attention. 😛

Maybe many of you just found the above text visually unappealing, but if you are chatting with the hip kids, this is how you might receive their replies. So, you’ve got to find the common ground too. Do stick with your personality, but understand that language and the tone sets a lot of posts apart. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="4. Stay focused, Stay Simple"] You can unconsciously be making complex contexts and making multiple focuses to your posts. You could be without any notice be moving from this idea to the recent policies made by the government of Nepal about the pollution and how the president of USA just called Haiti a sh*thole.

Having one idea at a time and precisely sticking to it makes the reader more comfortable. If the reader is interested in your post, but finds it complex and does not know what to do next with the information, you have failed.[/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="5.Use humour wherever possible!"] Just do! Use a stock cute cat image to your super serious topic. See what that does at your own risk. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="6.Think about the FORMAT of your content"] I think you would enjoy this article if it had a lovely background music and all you had to do was to watch the different points shown through a video. But, it isn’t. It would have been better!

Reflect about what content would best work with which format. Formats like video, images, music, slides, interviews, long articles, short texts etc. should be used with care. However, note that the format should complement the content, not overpower it. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="7.Time and Frequency"] Just like loadshedding in Nepal, time and frequency also affects your audiences.

Fixing a regular time also helps. If your audience is 21 year old college students, better not post during the college hours.

Evidently, a Facebook post is alive for less than 2 hours. So, if you only post once a month, realistically your audience will not be waiting for your single post.[/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="8.Quality Content "] Even though this point is in the end, this is the most important point of them all. Regardless of how you want to portray your content, the quality of the content or the message is central.[/fruitful_tab] [/fruitful_tabs]

We are sure that you have used few of the above 8 already. Try getting them all, and maybe you will see some changes. Maybe, the likes will turn into loves![:]

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On 23rd March 2018, we have run the discussion session at CDN on the topic of social media dissemination and plan. The aim of the discussion forum was to inform CDN and VHS members the facebook plan and structure that CDN is using. And, to find out new effective ways to reach more target groups in short period of time.

In the participatory program, some CDN volunteers are excited to involve themselves on fun video making content, on the other hand, some others are interested in infographics where there were 12 participants including 2 VHS members and CDN team.

At the end of the ideas exchange program, each participant knows the CDN structural plan on social media, and know individual responsibilities on respective fields.

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On the 7th of March 2018, CDN conducted the career orientation workshop to 40 students of Bachelor Level studying ‘Social work’ at Khwopa College, Bhaktapur. CDN career counselor Hari Krishna Dahal with the help of CDN Content writer Shrijana KC and Khwopa teachers facilitated the workshop.

The aim of this interactive workshop was to inform students the importance of career counseling: to have a suitable and successful career based on inborn abilities, interest, and values. On the other hand, the aim of the workshop was to inform students the benefits of CDN Psychometric Assessment to have an informed career and process of using CDN job and education database.

At the end of the interactive workshop student knows the process to take career information from CDN online portal job and education database, the available job in Nepal, required education and abilities, job context and process to be the respective job.

The two hours interactive program started with the career-related video where each participant knows the career possibilities.

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Career Disha Nepal conducted Basic Career Helper training to CDN partner organization’s team members of Himalayan Climate Initiative under Nepal Volunteering Program.

The targets  of the training program was to create a self-sustaining junior career helper who will be able to understand in intermediate level what career counseling is and is not, to make participant able to hold a CDN Psychometric Assessment session, to make participant able to explain the Psychometric Assessment results to the students/youths and to make participant able to upload Psychometric Assessment data on CDN job and education database, and to make participant able to print the Psychometric Assessment result and manage admin back-end.

According to the participant, the training program was helpful to eliminate all kind of confusion regarding CDN Psychometric Assessment and career counseling. From now, HCI is able to conduct the basic career counseling session using counselling tools CDN Psychometric Assessment independently without CDN assistance in future.

This interactive program was run on 1^st and 2^nd of February 2018, by CDN Project Manager Mr.Sagar Ghimire and CDN Career Counselor and CEO Mr Hari Krishna Dahal.

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Career Disha Nepal conducted 4 days workshop for 15 students in Prabina Foundation Nepal located at Anamnagar. The workshop comprised of My Future Pro which is a group-tool for educational and career coaching designed especially for youth to help them recognize their own interests, their strengths, suitable job sectors and leisure activities.

The workshop started with a brief interaction between our counselor, Mr.Hari Krishna Dahal and the students (from grade 6- 10). CDN Career Counselor, Mr.Dahal consulted the students regarding the type of personality one can have, different jobs he/she can pursue according to his/her personality and the ways to make job choices that can help them be satisfied in their career. The students interactively asked questions on the different career they wanted to pursue, to which our Counselor replied with detailed information on those jobs and the values and skills required for respective jobs/career. Accordingly, the first day of this workshop was dedicated in understanding the interests of each and every student present in the workshop.

On the 2nd and 3rd day, students were really excited and curious to know more about My Future Pro and participate in the workshop. Our counselor, Mr.Dahal started the workshop with the introduction of My Future Pro and various activities involved in this workshop. One by one, students were asked to do the activities through which they were able to identify jobs that would fit them best and that they would like to pursue along with their true interests and strengths. The whole workshop was conducted in an enjoyable and thoughtful manner, with jokes and interesting games in between, with the consideration to maintain the excitement and focus of the participants.

On the final day of My future Pro workshop, students were asked to interview each other about their interests, abilities and values. In addition to the discussion, students were also asked to analyze their own answers and data of My Future Pro that helped them acknowledge themselves and career of their interests.

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On 9th of January 2018, IICH’s (Institute International De Coaching Humaniste) founder, master coach, and trainer Bertrand Beauregard together with Career Disha Nepal had conducted the Introductory Conference on Life Coaching at Hotel Heritage, Bhaktapur.

The one day conference’s goal was to empower participants to achieve life goals, allow fulfilling one’s potential and help to improve individual awareness and creativity. In this interactive conference, Master Life Coach Bertrand had explained the exact definition of the life coach, the process to be the life coach, and the communicating processes that make life coaching different from therapy, advice, counseling and mentoring.

In the introductory conference, the master life coach Bertrand had raised open interrogative questions to participants on making a specific life decision and vice versa. The Life coach also explained the factors like individual identity, values, capacities, behavior, and environment could affect one’s life decision. The interacting conference hosted by Career Disha Nepal.

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The most effective and sought out CDN services, psychometric assessment’s result has seen a big update. From December 2017 onward, the Psychometric Assessment’s result will be more informative and filled with detailed information that will directly help any youth understand their career possibilities like never before. In the upgraded version, student will know recommended job’s market demand, available institutes, and minimum education requirement to have the respective career and much more at a glance. Along with that, there are numerous exciting features which will help youth find the highest potential in labor market which fits their personality, interest and passion.

What exactly is CDN Psychometric Assessment?

The CDN Psychometric Assessment is a tool used to find career options based on one’s interest and professional orientation, it’s also called interest-based test. We can use this assessment in various settings, and youths use it to test their individual personalities, professional interests, and vocational interests through the assessment. There are altogether four segments one has to give responses to according to their interest and how they react to a different situation(s). The system then analyses the filled information and illustrates their individual personality profile and matching jobs. Youth receive the individual profile, Psychometric Assessment result along with the matching jobs, and required educational information or training for each recommended professions. We are so excited to inform you that, the result has improved with more information and increased from 16 pages to 30 pages.

What are the recent changes in Psychometric Assessment result?

1. 50 % more information to before

By no means do we mean that the last result was less informative. Our 16 pages result was and still is the most concise and to-the-point youth targeted information Nepal had ever seen. Comparatively, the upgraded result has 50 percent more information. Student will receive more information regarding recommended jobs which will support them to know themselves more in-depth alongside give more push to take accurate action for their education as well as career option.

2. Golden opportunity to consult with career counselor- from anywhere in Nepal

This is an exciting feature for youth. They can now share their specific interests with career counselor through social media and phone call. Not only that, youth can now consult with career counselor regarding their financial status for the specific jobs. According to these comments along with the psychometric assessment, the professional career counselor can now better recommend the education and career options accordingly. Students can now receive the personal profile according to their personality as well as their socio-economic status! For example, if students’ personality matches for a career which can be attained only from an expensive course (like Doctor) and that they cannot afford it,  then they will receive other options that best fit their finances from the same sector. It has never been so easy to get career counseling in Nepal.

3. Multi-linguistic feature

. One can choose their preferred language while feeling the online assessment and students gets the results in the preferred language. Everything from our result menus to the personality types is now bilingual.

4. Easy access to print result without any delay

Nepal does not have the infrastructure for having the personal internet connection. Thus, we were unable to reach a lot of students online. Even if the students did the assessment online, it would be a onetime thing in a computer cyber somewhere, meaning no access to assessment result all the time. This new update has changed all that. Students can now print their personal result immediately on their own. Printed documents definitely are dearer to us than a webpage, right!.

This upgrade is regional-friendly. Youths from around Nepal who were not able to access career counseling can now have all the information about themselves and their career without physically appearing at our office in Bhaktapur. We believe this new change will see that we distribute the results of the assessment to the youth much more efficiently. We can’t wait to hear the feedback from our partners and students about these new changes.

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