Monday, August 4, 2008

Welcome

Assalaam alaikum.

Welcome to our blog. The purpose of this blog is to provide a space for relflection and discussion about what we are learning in our course on career development. It is a fact that we have very limited time to interact in class and discuss issues in detail. Moreover, some people may feel more confortable to share whatever is on their minds by posting on the blog than to verbally share infront of the class.

I will be very pleased if all members of this course utilize this facility to the fullest. You are expected to post any comments, insights, doubts, feelings, and questions you might have about career development. Your reflections may result from our discussion in the class, your own experience, or your readings in books, journals, magazines, and newspapers. Extra credit will be given to those who provide helpful comments on the reflections of their friends.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Assalamualaikum..
welcome to our blog and we can communicate through this blog like what we have done on the previous sem..To the new friends, you are welcoming to participate,exchange the ideas..(you'll find it interesting (^_^) )

I want to take advantage from this blog.Hopefully,you can comment or answer the question that I leave here.

As a future counselor, we cannot avoid from talking about CAREER. The way of thinking of our future students will be more advance. Of course, it will influence their behavior,personality,interest-it can be anything!
So, through this subject-CAREER DEVELOPMENT,we can prepare ourselves in order to 'tackle' this situation later on. InsyALLAH.

Regarding to what we have learn today-CAREER INFORMATION IS OUR BASIC TOOL, what I can say here, we must be alert with the job market or to the current issues that related to the career. It is because, the students will find the counselor FIRST and ask anything about the career. They do that because, they think the counselor is the best person who know everything(they forget that the counselor is also a human being). In addition, for me, internet is the best source for us in order to guide them. we also can tell the student what is the web page that they can refer if they want to know or explore about the world of work.
Moreover,in today class, we discussed about 'Why it is imposibble for the country to have 0% unemployed?'. For me, it is because, not all the graduated students are qualified. Some of them only good in theory and got the good CGPA but it's not a promise that they can good at dealing with the real world of work. As what the Dr. Siraje mentioned, some of them are lacking of soft skills. Although the university already regulated the subject that related to the leadership for instance,the university still cannot promise that its students can face the challenges in the worplace..
So, what is your comment on this?