The Hindu : New Delhi News : Career guidance drive for youth

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Thursday, Jun 03, 2004

New Delhi

New Delhi

Career guidance drive for youth

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 2. To assist students and job seekers in choosing their career, the Delhi Government has launched its "Choose Your Career Campaign 2004''. Kicked-off this past Tuesday, the 15-day annual campaign is aimed at acquainting the youth with the wide range of career opportunities available today.

Keeping in mind the sharp decline in the number of government jobs in recent years, the thrust of the campaign this year is to guide the youth in exploring job opportunities in the self-employed sector and the private sector.

Organised in all nine District Employment Exchanges, three University Employment Information and Guidance Bureau, two Special Employment Exchanges for Disabled and one Special Employment Exchange for ex-servicemen, students can approach the centres between 9-30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on all working days. The main objective of the campaign is dissemination of information about academic or professional courses, apprenticeship training and skill training in different universities, apprenticeship training centres and polytechniques. Information on vocational guidance through display of career literature and employment market profile is also available.

However, in the present situation of a large number of educated unemployed, stress is on motivating candidates to take up self-employment as an alternative to wage paid employment. To guide students to undergo skill-training, which will enhance their employability as well as prepare them for setting-up their own ventures, career talks will be delivered by the Vocational Guidance Officers at schools. The emphasis during the talks will be to motivate and guide students to undergo skill training or apprenticeship training at polytechniques and other training institutes. Also, information about jobs through various competitive examinations and occupations, where number of candidates is relatively low will also be disseminated to job seekers through the Vocational Guidance Units.

Information about emerging fields like fashion technology, gemology, tourism, hotel industry, mass media and communication, information technology, bio-technology, para-medical, nursing and teaching that are likely to provide greater job opportunities in the future is also available.

During the `Choose Your Career Campaign 2003', 7,021 students were given vocational guidance while throughout 2003, career counselling was given to 1,67,693 persons.

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