Career Guidance Centre inaugurated at DUHS

Karachi—Guidance plays a pivotal role in shaping the lives of today’s youth who are faced with fierce career competition and a wide range of career choices in terms of the different disciplines that they can opt for. Pakistani fellowship is very difficult.

Policy makers must provide an opportunity to young generation for embarking their career said Prof. Masood Hameed Khan, Vice Chancellor, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) while inaugurating the newly established, fully fledged Career Guidance Centre at Dow Medical College, DUHS.

Dow University today launched newly established Career Guidance Centre which will offer a one-stop solution to medical students with career choices by workshops, resource centre, individual counseling and mentorship program. Prof. Masood Hameed further said that Pakistan is facing high unemployment and a severe skill shortage.

How to Choose Professional Career in Pakistan

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ACCA Pakistan and Career Counseling

Karachi—ACCA Pakistan recently organized a series of Career Counseling workshops for teachers and student advisors in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. ACCA recognizes the integral role career guidance plays in helping students identify their natural talents in order to pursue a career promising them professional success.

The workshops were based on the concept that the best career exploration and job search strategies capitalize on the natural strengths of an individual’s Personality and Behavioral Style. Shamez Mukhi, Head of Public Affairs, ACCA Pakistan welcomed the participants, explaining the challenges students and parents encounter while making career choices and the resources developed by ACCA for students, teachers and parents. Speaking on the occasion he added, “One of the aims of the workshop is to ensure that ACCA Pakistan recruits students with the right aptitude, who are ambitious and committed to their careers so that they can excel as ACCA members”

Noorulain Zafer, Manager Marketing and Student Recruitment, ACCA Pakistan, made a presentation on Foundations in Accountancy and ACCA qualifications, entry routes, tuition providers and employment opportunities in Pakistan. She also answered questions about employability and the excellent employer base that ACCA enjoys nationally and globally. In addition to that participants were also given an overview of ACCA’s brand and the marketing activities it undertakes for potential students.

This was followed by a technical training on ‘career counseling to personality type’ conducted by Rahila Narejo, Lead Consultant and Chief Executive, NHR. Rahila emphasized on the significance of aligning career decisions to student’s aptitude and industry demand.


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Need for Career Counselling is acknowledged

KARACHI: Governor Sindh, Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Sunday said the youth are very talented and have many achievements at international level.

He was talking to a delegation of FPCCI's Standing Committee on Youth Affairs at Governor House.

The Sindh Governor said Pakistan is facing many challenges including population increase.

Equipping youth with technical education and their career-counseling can help bring Pakistan among the developed nations, Dr. Ebad added.

He termed availability of resources at par with the population of Pakistan as another big challenge for the government. Attention is
being given to provide basic facilities to masses, he said. (APP)


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Bridging the Industry – Academia Gap

KARACHI - Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Pakistan, (IEEEP) Karachi Centre, has organised a discussion session titled “Bridging the Industry – Academia Gap” at the Karachi Expo Center. Senior executives from the industry and universities attended the discussion. Invited guests from industry included senior executives from Philips, Siemens, Intel, IBM, Super Technologies, Shaheen Air, PEL and many more. From the academia there were representation from leading universities including NED, Sir Syed, IBA, PNEC-NUST, Bahria University, SZABIST and others. Senior executives from IEEEP also attended the session.

The main points of this discussion were to identify the needs by the industry in terms of human resource, are the organisation able to find the right human resource for their hiring? How could these needs be addressed, how could be the universities are helpful in addressing these needs and what support is required by them to fulfil these needs and last but not least, how could IEEEP is helpful to the industry and academia, addressing these needs.