Self-Preparation For A Life After Graduating
It is about most of the students will respond for their own life and living after graduating. This is the main problem that the graduate students worry about especially to find a good jobs with a reasonable salary to effort their living and continue to another course such as master degree to secure their jobs from a very competitive working market.
This worry is coming from a very competitive in working environment and other living conditions such as their current family condition, family income generation or and other young generation will come to study at university in Phnom Penh and stay with them.
This worry would be reduced while the students know and understand clearly their university program that caring about their students not just educating but also jobs. The university is providing more relevant capacity building training courses and others relevant service to help the students to win the job hunting before or after graduating easily and effectively.
The students themselves have to use all resources provided in the best and always remember that the success is coming from a clear goal, good strategies and plan, and right action.
As mention above and as a gift for the up coming academic year, we will bring the basic successful concepts to the students for their self-preparation for a getting a good job after graduating as the following:
1. Understanding about Environment of Working Market Situation
As a proverb stated that "To live and work safely and successfully, you have to know everything about yourself clearly". Then this is one of the most important steps that the students have to understand about their living environment especially to understand about a very competitive working market as Cambodian facing after their Lots of international investors are interesting to invest while others international non-profit institution considered to open their facilities here in Cambodia. This is the starting point that the students have to be aware and ask themselves few questions for getting a good jobs.
After answering to the above questions, the students might be able know themselves with three more important questions as:
3- Using all Important Resources and Programs Where Prepare by Your University
"A smart person is a person can use and take the advantages from all the resource around himself". As the students of the university who providing huge resources such Norton University, they have to absorb and use those provided and useful resources as much as you can and in the best way.
Career consulting and job seeking service
Go and discuss with the career consultant or lecturers in order to get some comments or experience from them as a bridge for your self improvement. Because sometime your consultant or lecturers' experiences allow them have a long vision and perspective in field of working market than what you have predicted. Further more your consultants or lecturers would be able to list our some more relevant courses that you have to learn more and your weakness point that you have to improve. And they can also let you missed in your working plan.
Jobs Information board
When time is available, the students should spend a least about 5 minutes per day stand in front of Jobs Information board in order to know that:
What the internet service is provided free of charge to all the students of Norton University, the students themselves should take this advantage from these unlimited resources for knowledge and capacity improving and knowing how the world is going. If you can use internet effectively with you sufficient English you would be able to expand your world of knowledge and working as soon as you do never think about.
4- Check out yourself
You have to check out your self against to what is in your career plan and current work requirement vary often or every academic year in order to find out which point you to improve. The university produces thousands of graduated students every year and they will be your strong competitors the future. Suppose that now you are the 2nd year student at Norton University. You will have 2 years more to graduate. So if your competitor graduate this year and immediately have a job, they would be a 2 years experienced competitor for you when you graduated. Then let ask and answer by yourself from now and on?
The most important points are:
Put in your mind that "you must be the number one in jobs hunting!" and please don't think that to get a good job after graduating just looked like a final exam at the end of every semester of academic year. It is very different from each other. You can pass the final exam if your scores is over the limited line but being a job winner you have to win all the candidates which can say that you must be best in very thing such as general knowledge, skill and attitude...etc. Then for being a winner and success in a post, you have to strategize clearly toward to goal since you are in the class. Be reminded that sometime your colleagues can be a key person and holding a human resource posts or other but they come to the class for building their own capacity to comply with their organization. They can observe and not the students who qualify to each position in their organization. Then you have to take the advantaged and opportunities for yourself. You have to be an active, creative and smart student in class, a good manner person who always make good relation to every colleague gently. You have express to the class that you will be the manager and leader after graduating.
Reference
This worry is coming from a very competitive in working environment and other living conditions such as their current family condition, family income generation or and other young generation will come to study at university in Phnom Penh and stay with them.
This worry would be reduced while the students know and understand clearly their university program that caring about their students not just educating but also jobs. The university is providing more relevant capacity building training courses and others relevant service to help the students to win the job hunting before or after graduating easily and effectively.
The students themselves have to use all resources provided in the best and always remember that the success is coming from a clear goal, good strategies and plan, and right action.
As mention above and as a gift for the up coming academic year, we will bring the basic successful concepts to the students for their self-preparation for a getting a good job after graduating as the following:
1. Understanding about Environment of Working Market Situation
As a proverb stated that "To live and work safely and successfully, you have to know everything about yourself clearly". Then this is one of the most important steps that the students have to understand about their living environment especially to understand about a very competitive working market as Cambodian facing after their Lots of international investors are interesting to invest while others international non-profit institution considered to open their facilities here in Cambodia. This is the starting point that the students have to be aware and ask themselves few questions for getting a good jobs.
- What types of works/jobs are coming/creating?
- Who will come with these jobs/works? Or who will be managers of those jobs?
- What are their languages and how do they work? Working equipment? Material?
- What skill/criteria will those jobs/works require?
- How to the students prepare their selves to apply and win on the jobs?
After answering to the above questions, the students might be able know themselves with three more important questions as:
- What are they?
- Where are thy?
- And what should they do next?
3- Using all Important Resources and Programs Where Prepare by Your University
"A smart person is a person can use and take the advantages from all the resource around himself". As the students of the university who providing huge resources such Norton University, they have to absorb and use those provided and useful resources as much as you can and in the best way.
Career consulting and job seeking service
Go and discuss with the career consultant or lecturers in order to get some comments or experience from them as a bridge for your self improvement. Because sometime your consultant or lecturers' experiences allow them have a long vision and perspective in field of working market than what you have predicted. Further more your consultants or lecturers would be able to list our some more relevant courses that you have to learn more and your weakness point that you have to improve. And they can also let you missed in your working plan.
Jobs Information board
When time is available, the students should spend a least about 5 minutes per day stand in front of Jobs Information board in order to know that:
- How many company or organizations need the position in your chosen career?
- How often it was announced? What are the requirement criteria?
- Do they have those required skills/criteria yet? Any certificates as evidence?
- Do you have any other skills beside of what company listed as advantage to the post?
- If they applied, how many percent that they expect for interview call?
What the internet service is provided free of charge to all the students of Norton University, the students themselves should take this advantage from these unlimited resources for knowledge and capacity improving and knowing how the world is going. If you can use internet effectively with you sufficient English you would be able to expand your world of knowledge and working as soon as you do never think about.
4- Check out yourself
You have to check out your self against to what is in your career plan and current work requirement vary often or every academic year in order to find out which point you to improve. The university produces thousands of graduated students every year and they will be your strong competitors the future. Suppose that now you are the 2nd year student at Norton University. You will have 2 years more to graduate. So if your competitor graduate this year and immediately have a job, they would be a 2 years experienced competitor for you when you graduated. Then let ask and answer by yourself from now and on?
The most important points are:
- Character and Attitude
- Knowledge, skill and Relevant Skill
- Building good relation with friend or people who are having a job
- Any experience from o a part time job or volunteer
Put in your mind that "you must be the number one in jobs hunting!" and please don't think that to get a good job after graduating just looked like a final exam at the end of every semester of academic year. It is very different from each other. You can pass the final exam if your scores is over the limited line but being a job winner you have to win all the candidates which can say that you must be best in very thing such as general knowledge, skill and attitude...etc. Then for being a winner and success in a post, you have to strategize clearly toward to goal since you are in the class. Be reminded that sometime your colleagues can be a key person and holding a human resource posts or other but they come to the class for building their own capacity to comply with their organization. They can observe and not the students who qualify to each position in their organization. Then you have to take the advantaged and opportunities for yourself. You have to be an active, creative and smart student in class, a good manner person who always make good relation to every colleague gently. You have express to the class that you will be the manager and leader after graduating.
"No one can crated an opportunity for you unless yourself" "To live and work safely and successfully, you have to know everything about yourself clearly"By Mr. Mak Somanak
Reference
- NU Newsletter, September 2010/January 2011, p.150
