How to be Favourably Competitive on the Job Market

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1. Henry Clarke Kisembohkisembo@gmail.com0788657721 and 0728301147

Career Orientation

Career Orientation is a comprehensive and sequential

educational concept designed to provide individuals at

the middle school level with the necessary information

and experience to prepare them for living and working

in an ever-changing economy, society, and

environment.

Career Orientation

Career Orientation is a career development

instructional guidance program designed to prepare

students to have a greater understanding of

educational and career opportunities and options and

to assist them in making meaningful and informed

career choices.

Objectives of Career Orientation

• To gain an understanding of your own interests,abilities,

aptitudes, and strengths.

• To develop an individual inventory of valuable career

development foundation skills.

• To gain valuable career information and related job training

options and opportunities.

Objectives of career Orientation• To become acquainted with various forms of employment

and to develop job acquisition and job retention skills.

• To experience hands-on activities for self appraisal purposes

and for exploratory career experiences.

• To develop a tentative career and educational plan relevant

to their individual interests, abilities, aptitudes, and goals.

Career DevelopmentIn organizational development (or OD), the study of

career development looks at:

how individuals manage their careers within and

between organizations

and how organizations structure the career progress of

their members, it can also be tied into succession

planning within some organizations.

Career DevelopmentIn personal development, career development is:

" ... the total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual."

"... the lifelong psychological and behavioral processes as well as contextual influences shaping one’s career over the life span. As such, career development involves the person’s creation of a career pattern, decision-making style, integration of life roles, values expression, and life-role self concepts."

Being Favourably Competitive on the Job Market

Being Favourably competitive on the job market

combines a variety of aspects and factors including;

Education background, skills attained, Work

Experience, Environment, Access to Labour markets

information, Ability and willingness to sale oneself,

Timing, personality and Character.

Skills, Values and Personal attributes Selling oneself (Writing a CV) Understanding interview processes and preparing Understanding your studies career path Access to information on labour markets Environment around the labour markets and within

the workplace Exploring opportunities; Volunteering, Internships,

Attachments and Mentorship programs

Skills, Values and Personal attributes Timing; knowing when the job market is on the high or low

Personality and Character; Honesty, Ambition, Creativity,

Flexibility, Focus, Organized, Enterprising, Attitude,

Confidence, Not money driven, Self expression, Time

management, Not desperate, Communication,

Interpersonal relations, Team work, Negotiation ability,

Leadership qualities, Trust, Dependable,

Workplace Ethics and attributes Set goals and priorities

Decision making; strategic and rational thinking

Knowledge of duties and responsibilities

Respect not fear; people and property

Conflict resolution

Customer care

Report writing

Conclusion In life you have to set goals and priorities, need to

understand yourself and also the environment you are

living, need to make strategic, rational and sound decisions

and judgement; although there will be challenges in your

pursuit for happpiness, the bottom line is to see

opportunities and place yourself in a position to take

advantage of them; it all begins with you.

Resources for job opportunities Newspapers; Invaho, Newtimes Websites; www.yesrwandajobs.org; www.lmis.co.rw;

www.reliefweb.int; www.vsojitolee.org; www.dot.org Networks and associations; JCI Rwanda, YES Rwanda,

DOT Rwanda, PSF, RDB, MIFOTRA, MINIYOUTH etc Inform friends and family and circulate your CV

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