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Thursday, 4 December 2014
How to become a CFO & other career articles
Monday, 1 December 2014
Think twice before you put MS Word as a skill on your resume
Islamabad
It has been ages since we last heard about a booming job market. A majority of the fresh graduates is seen complaining about lack of jobs or inadequate salary packages. Employers, on the other hand, complain about the quality of available human resource.
Sana Khalid, the brain behind a social youth enterprise operating in Islamabad by the name of Minerva, runs an internship and training programme for students and fresh graduates. She says, “Our training programmes have been designed in response to abundance of unemployable or unwanted human resource. There isn’t a dearth of people looking for jobs; neither is there a shortage of jobs in the market, but there is a huge gap between what employers are willing to pay for and what these prospective employees have to offer.”
With increasing inflation, cut-throat competition and rising political issues, employers no longer want to spend time or resources training people for basic skills like writing e-mails, communicating with people, producing a presentable document, and so on.
MS Office is one such skill that students, graduates and professionals very conveniently and confidently place on their résumés. “Most of these people are not really consciously manipulating the employer into believing they know the skill. They actually believe they know it because they’ve been using MS Word and MS Excel for most of their lives now,” explained Sana.
“MS Word is more than entering text and changing font sizes. MS Excel offers amazing features for data analysis, etc. You can make something no less than payroll programmes and inventory tracking systems using MS Excel. MS Office should not be a skill anyone adds to their CV, regardless of the level of expertise. We therefore, plan to turn it from just a skill to an actual score on the CV that gives a more objective evaluation of a person’s skill,” Sana explained when asked what was so special about a training that appears more like a thing of the past.
One of the participants of the MS Word training, Zeeshan Ali, senior marketing manager at BioCare Labs said, “We have been using MS Word for ages now. It was hard to believe how we had very little knowledge of a majority of the features we learnt here. We always thought we knew Word. We use it every day.”
Another participant Maria Iqbal, who teaches at a private institute reported, “I have wasted endless hours doing things I could have done in just a click, if only I had attended this training earlier. I can now help my students with the same. These two days were truly full of information and knowledge. I will no longer be spending hours on preparing a table of contents manually.”
The MS Office trainings designed by Minerva are unique in more than one ways. The course design encompasses all of the most useful features, commands and options in MS Word 2013 without segregation into basic, intermediate and advanced.
Increased levels of interaction and practical exercises are also a dominant feature of the training but what is most important to note is the scoring of each participant’s skills at the beginning and end of the training. The sessions are highly recommended for fresh graduates, professionals at all levels, entrepreneurs, and students who frequently work on research essays and papers. Source
Sunday, 30 November 2014
TRAINING OF SCHOOL VAN DRIVERS – A SIGNIFICANT ELEMENT OF ROAD SAFETY
TRAINING OF SCHOOL VAN DRIVERS – A SIGNIFICANT ELEMENT OF
ROAD SAFETY
Population and vehicle ownership are the two important factors that are directly dependent on the increase in the victims of road traffic accidents or severe crashes. There are different types of road users exist in the traffic stream of Karachi. It includes Rider, Pillion rider, Passengers, Pedestrians, Drivers, Push carts or animal driver vehicles etc. Apart from that diversified nature of drivers and riders are available that makes the situation more hazardous and unpredictable. Unfortunately, the risk of driver crashes are higher enough comparatively to the other type of road users, although it is dependent on the number of vehicles increasing every day in the metropolitan city, Karachi. The traffic crashes are more prominent to the face due to the number of causes including over speeding, overtaking, negligence of drivers and riders, improper road and infrastructure facilities provided, absence of infrastructure facilities, wrong way issues, novice and overage driving, vehicle fault, medical illness etc. All the contributory factors come under the head of three broader divisions namely Human, Road/ Infrastructure and Vehicle contributory factors. It may leads to the lack of two-prong phenomenon of traffic safety which resembles as inappropriate enforcement actions implicated and drivers training and management issues. In this era, there is the emendable need of training of drivers for a specific road user group starting with the severity of particular type. By having the contrast situation, now a days, the vulnerable road user group is the school van drivers, as timely injuries and fatalities are receiving in the couple of months.
Social Research and Development Organization (SRDO) working efficiently in the area of Traffic Management and Road Safety is capable enough to impart in the training programs of school van drivers. As reported by the President SRDO, Mr. Abdul Qadir Bullo, during two months three serious crashes are reported related to school van drivers, included two severe injuries and one on spot fatal accident. According to him, training programs should mandatory not only for school van drivers but for all type of road users. The organization is primarily working in the launch of seminars, as first drivers training program in Pakistan has been organized for various transporters and logistics on 26th September, 2011 while the centre is planning to introduce more training sessions for specific organizations in the future. The respective program was designed in a manner to produce some fruitful and recommended results at the end.
It is the usual practice that the school van drivers are in hurry and not taken into considerations the facts of driving controls. The thing which is more susceptive to the driving is the control on the over loading which in reaction provides the centrifugal force on the road geometry (curve effect, sharp turnings or at Junctions) and ultimately worsening the situation. There should be proper check and balance management and monitoring system by the concerned enforcement agencies. At the preliminary stage of issuance of license, proper training of school van drivers should be the mandatory part that would ultimately correspond to the safe and sound traffic management system of Karachi. It is quite evident that school van driver bears the high responsibility of the assets of our country on his shoulders and they can assure their responsibility in lieu of traffic safety mechanism.
Source: SRDO
Friday, 28 November 2014
Certified Human Resource Practitioner (CHRP)
Concord Certification Corporation Canada in collaboration with Oaj-e-Kamal are jointly organizing a exhaustive and comprehensive 4 Weeks International certification program on Certified Human Resource Practitioner in Islamabad (23 Batch).
This four weeks comprehensive training provides practical based knowledge to the disciplines and core practices of Human Resource Management & Strategic HR Management. This practical program offers the title of CHRP (Certified Human Resource Practitioner) to the candidates who demonstrate their understanding of the profession through the successful completion of righteous professional certification examinations.
This four weeks evening program emphasizes on the practical job related skills and knowledge used throughout in the field of Human Resources. CHRP is a learning program that has been specifically designed to provide you with the fundamental knowledge of HR that you need to be successful as an HR professional.
After the Certification Course the participants will walk away with:
Manage the Human Resource Operations functions within the organization strategically to
meet efficiency of resources;
Plan workforce strategies to achieve organizational goals and objectives of the work area;
Manage recruitment, selection and induction processes within the work environment;
Design, implement and oversee the performance management systems;
Create Effective Job Descriptions & Human Resources Manual;
Conduct Effective Needs Assessments, Climate and Organizational Surveys, Job Analysis,
Job Evaluations, Effective HR Audits / Assessments etc.
Administer Effective Compensation and Benefits.
Application of HR Matrices
Purposes of HR (Effectiveness * Efficiency) (People * Operations)
Why an International accredited certification?
Public recognition of professional achievement, which also aids in career advancement.
Competitive advantage and a discrete distinguish in the professional market.
Certified Professionals create positive impact on organizational performance.
This Certification is designed for:
HR Generalists, HR Officers, HR Staff and Executives wishing to know more about the vital
role that HR Professionals play.
HR Specialists, HR supervisors, HR Managers, anyone who wants to keep current on HR
Strategies.
(This program can also be customized for in-house sessions for organizations)
Dates:
ISLAMABAD
December 04 to 29, 2014 (4 weeks, 3 days a week, 3 hrs a day)
KARACHI
December 18, 2014 to January 10, 2015 (4 weeks, 3 days a week, 3 hrs a day)
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Venue: Suite No.1, Chaudary Plaza, Street No. 112, Sector G-11/3, Islamabad.
Investment: Rs. 40,000/- Per Participant (Course Material, Examination fee & Hi-tea)
For more information, kindly contact:
Mr. Taimoor Tariq
Assistant Manager L&D
+92 51 843 5190
+92 51 843 7300 – 01
+92 334 958 2636
pakistan@concordcertification.com
Mr. IMRAN KHAN
Sr. Training Coordinator
+92 313 403 6381
+ 92 51 8435191
trainings@oajekamal.com
Friday, 21 November 2014
You're Invited // WYA Asia Pacific Regional Internship Program 2015
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