Discover your calling

>> Friday, July 24, 2009

Campus Buzz Careergraph The telegraph, Kolkata Jul 22,09, Thursday

NEWS, VIEWS AND TRIVIA STRAIGHT FROM SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

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Statistics reveal that only 4 per cent of students in India receives expert career counselling. Not surprisingly, according to a Nasscom report, just 15 per cent of graduates in the country are employable.

To address this problem, Anandabazar Patrika and Dheya (www.dheya.com) — an educational services company — have started Aavishkar, an online assessment programme for students. The programme provides around 700 career options and the methodology comprises mind exercises, simulations and questions to help one discover his or her true calling. Those interested have to fill in a form, published in Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph, and submit it along with a cheque for Rs 600 to any ABP classifieds office.

The programme will also include an hour-long career planning session, which will be held on Saturdays and Sundays. Candidates will have to register for this separately. For details, write to aavishkar@abp.in.

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MID CAREER CRISIS...

>> Thursday, July 16, 2009

We are in touch with several senior and top executives in the corporate. What is heartening to know is that each one has a deep desire to move out and do something worth while. BUT the feel is I CANT becauseeeeeee....

I have some serous questions to ask all these execs.. does your 10- 20% hike YConfused oY make you happy??.. if we draw a line chart of cumulative income and a line graph of expenses it clearly shows that the expenses line has a steeper gradient, call it the inflation, or call it the increased personal responsibilities or increased aspirations the money is always short.And then you have the credit cards, the loans that you have lines up to fill the gap.

This is a serious trap executives fall into. To get of the trap either have a phenomenal growth or just step out get in to become an entrepreneur who create value. The mid career crisis is so grave that people have moved job, take up education or just stepped out to take up something on their own. Some succeeded and some failed miserably have landed into a worst situation than before..

We at Dheya are working with several executives caught into a midcareer crisis and are helping them get out of the same with scientifically developed processes.

Here's an interesting article i read about excuses senior executives give when they are unhappy and facing a mid career crisis and are unable to breakthrough...

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If you’re unhappy at work, I’m sure that the thought “Man, I really should quit!” crosses your mind occasionally. So why don’t you?

Even if you long desperately to quit, to get away from your horrible workplace, annoying co-workers or abusive managers, you may hesitate to actually do anything about it, because right on the heels of that impulse come a lot of other thoughts that hold you back from quitting.

Each of these excuses may sound to you like the voice of sanity, offering perfectly good reasons why it is in fact better to stay and endure that bad job just a little longer, but look a little closer, and they don’t really hold up. What they do instead is keep you trapped in a job that is slowly but surely wearing you down. Here are 10 of the most common bad excuses for staying in a bad job.

1 “Things might get better”

2 “My boss is such a jerk but if I quit now, he wins.”

3 “I’m not a quitter.”

4 “I’ll never get another job”

5 “If I quit I’ll lose my salary, status, company car, the recognition of my peers, etc.”

6 “Everywhere else is just as bad”

7 “I’ve invested so much in this job already”

8 “I’ll lose my health insurance.”

9 “My job pays very well”

10 “Quitting will look bad on my CV” Many of us would be much happier at work if we quit bad jobs sooner.

Source: http://positivesharing.com/

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"The Goal", that’s what Dheya means in Sanskrit. Dheya is an organisation primarily focussed on working with the youth of India. Dheya, with its unique and indigenously developed tools and techniques, helps the youth of India to plan and build a successful career. In addition, Dheya works with the youth to equip them with skills and abilities to succeed in life.

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