Engineer Muhammad Aqeel Aslam(Assistant Professor)

Swedish College Of Engineering & Technology.

BS Electronic Engineering SS-UETMS Electrical Engineering NUST

Strategic Approach for future roadmap & placement assistance

Presented By:Engr. Muhammad Aqeel AslamIn-charge CDPC, SCET, RYK

Vision We are committed to enhance the potentials

of students, faculty, staff and all segments of the society by bringing a positive change in their personal and career lives, motivating them for self-enlightenment through Quality Education, Personality Development, True Professionalism and Career Planning; thus, adding value to our nation, and ultimately to humanity.

May ALLAH Almighty help us!

Did you know that 65% of all collegestudents change their major at leastonce while in college?

Why?

They find a new or different major which supports their interests, values,passion, or personality.

CAREER PLANNING: MYTHS AND FACTS AGREE OR DISAGREE?

1. Whatever my career choice is, that is the subject that I should major in.2. I need to choose a career that is practical—something that will “pay the bills.”3. I should base my career decision on current trends and demands in the job market—that way I’ll always be employed.4. Career self-assessment means finding out what I’m good at.5. I won’t really know if I enjoy a career until I graduate and start working in the field…and I hope I don’t make a mistake! 

What can you do to find a major if you don’t know what to study?

• Start by taking a few of the General Education credits which are a part of an Associate of Bachelors degree.

• Take courses of interest to you.

• Take a college course to help you find a direction

Educational and occupational exploration

Aware the benefit of educational achievement Aware the relationship between work and learning Skills to understand and use of career information Aware importance of personal responsibility and

good work habits Aware how work relates to needs and function of

society

Career planning

Understand how to make decisions Aware interrelationship of life rules Aware career planning process

Career GuidanceBachelors Programs Should:

– Help students look at their choices in elective curriculum, extra-curricular activities, and after campus jobs, and how those might relate to later career choices.

– Help students learn good decision-making skills.

– Help students learn where to access occupational information.

– Help students explore career choices, narrow and clarify goals.

– Help students look at course requirements and what this means to them and their career choices.

– Help students determine what, if any, pre-requisites might be required for an entry level position into the career of choice.

Career GuidanceActivities Designed to Achieve

Career Development Competencies

Competencies The Student Will

Positive attitudes toward work and learning.

Learn skills in making decisions and choosing educational goals.

Skills in career exploration and planning.

Demonstrate a positive work ethic.

Project and describe factors that may influence educationaland career decisions.

Develop career plans that include the concept that the world is ever changing anddemands life-long learning.

Career GuidanceCounseling Program Delivery Methods

– Field trips and visits to training programs.

– Use of portions of regular class time to explore practical field planning.

– Career development units incorporated into regularly scheduled classes.

– Career related information infused into all classes whereby the teacher continuously relates subject matter to the world of work.

– Special classes just on career education.

– Life planning classes and groups

– Career Counseling

Career Guidance

Special Consideration

Not all students will benefit from traditional methods of career education. Some will need special consideration. These include students who are:

Gifted

PhysicallyChallenged

EmotionallyOr Mentally

Disabled

LearningDisabled

Career Guidance

Career Development Services Need to include:

– A component on self and career awareness.

– Exploration of interests, values, goals and decisions.

– A realistic view of the job market and what one needs to do to prepare for it.

– Information on careers.

– Workshops that cover the practicalities: resume development, interviewing skills etc.

– Good academic advisors that can direct and assist students .

Career GuidanceProgram Delivery Methods

– Advising at the counseling or career center.

– Insertion of career related materials into regular classes.

– Career classes given for credit or noncredit.

– Workshops or seminars.

– Self-directed activities.

– A section of the school newspaper devoted to career information.

– Career counseling and career resource centers.

– Job fairs

– Peer Counseling“Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2004”

Definition of “Guidance and Counselling”

“Information, guidance and counselling services" refers to services intended to assist individuals, of any age and at any point throughout their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers

Widespread definitionof “Guidance and Counselling”

“Guidance and Counselling” includes a wide range of activities:

activities within College/University to help students clarify career goals and understand the world of work

Personal or group-based assistance with decisions about initial courses of study, further education and training, initial job choice, job change, or work force re-entry

computer-based or on-line services to provide information about jobs and careers or to help individuals make career choices; and services to produce and disseminate information about jobs, courses of study

It includes services provided to those who have not yet entered the labour force, services to job seekers, and services to those who are employed

Benefits of counselling

There is widespread consensus that high quality guidance provision throughout life is a key component of education, training and employability strategies to attain the strategic goal

Benefits of counselling

The aims of Guidance and Counselling can be summarized as follows:

“Guidance helps to build confidence and to empower individuals as well as making people aware of new career possibilities, including civic, leisure, learning and work opportunities and promotes the balance of life and work

It promotes employability and adaptability by assisting people to make career decisions both on entering the labour market and on moving within it

Why counselling is important Guidance aims to:enable citizens to manage and plan their

learning and work pathways in accordance with their life goals,

assist educational and training institutions to have well motivated pupils, students and trainees who take responsibility for their own learning and set their own goals for achievement

assist enterprises and organisations to have well motivated, employable and adaptable staff, capable of accessing and benefiting from learning opportunities both within and outside the workplace

Why counselling is important Guidance aims to: provide policymakers with an important means to

achieve a wide range of public policy goals support local, regional, national economies through

workforce development and adaptation to changing economic demands and social circumstances

assist in the development of societies, in which citizens actively contribute to their social and democratic development

Importance of guidance and counselling within education system

Career education has an important role to play within education in laying the foundations for lifelong career development

Guidance and counselling are particularly important in post compulsory education. Here, wider curriculum choice results in more diverse and complex routes into later stages of education, into employment, or into bothThis can help to:

reduce dropouts from and back-tracking within education systems, and thus improve internal flaws

Improve flaws between different levels of education, thus raising national levels of educational attainment

improve transitions from education to the marketThese outcomes help to make better use of educational resources, and to increase both individual and social returns to investments in education

Importance of guidance and counselling

In particular, guidance and counselling can help to:

achieve a better match between skills, interests and qualifications on the one hand and available job opportunities on the other

make a key difference between the successful and unsuccessful implementation of active market programmes

Counselling and Lifelong Learning Lifelong learning and the development of employability

are the guiding principles and frameworks for the development of policies, systems and practices for lifelong guidance

Policies and programmes for lifelong guidance are an integral part of national Community level, social and economic development policies and programmes

These include policies and programmes relating to education, training, and employment, social inclusion, gender equity, human resource development, regional and rural development, and improving living and working conditions

Counselling and Lifelong Learning Policies and programmes for lifelong guidance are

formulated and implemented through stakeholder participation in mechanisms such as national forums for guidance. Relevant stakeholders include social partners, employment services, education and training institutions, guidance practitioners, parents, and youth

Policies and programmes for lifelong guidance take into account national and international economic change and technological development

How can I help a special needs student be

successful First and foremost- Do not label a student as

“A person who cannot learn and achieve!” Operate under the assumption that “All Students

Can Learn.” Some students, however, may learn in a different way.

Never publicly point out or make reference to a student with a special needs.

Helpful tips!

Don’t assume all special needs students are the same. Address the specific students needs and concerns.

Stay in communication by Special Education Techniques. These professional skills will have insight and knowledge about how to assist a particular student.

More Tips! For Emotional Disturbed Students, allow them

a “Cool Off” period or place to let them settle down and collect themselves..

Ask the student what helps them learn. This serves two purposes, you can help them learn and help them advocate for themselves.

Summary A common goal of Guidance and Counselling is

– to promote employability– to support career management and personal development of

social skills– to reduce dropout through activation, motivation and

empowerment of participants/ learners/ users Guidance and Counselling services should be based on a

holistic approach, i.e. guidance and counselling regarded as a lifelong process should

– recognise all clients’ need– focus not only on their career development and market

integration but– focus also on the social and psychological needs and deal with

them in the manner appropriate to the skills, experience and role of the counsellor and the needs and wishes of the individual

Questions???