March 14, 2021

A program on ‘career counselling and career development’ was organized by IMA Mission Pink Health Lucknow, at Bal Sadan Charbagh Lucknow on 14th March 2021. Earlier, MPH had organized a program on Balanced diet and improvement in Nutrition at the same place. This session was organized in collaboration with organizations; Saksham India Trust and SPREDA, that provided resources for the program. Saksham India Trust has been working in field of entrepreneurship development, livelihoods, and career development from many years.

Resource persons, Mrs Seema Singh MCA and Mr Murali MTech IIT both work as Directors with Oracle and are also associated with multiple organisations in education sector as volunteers.

Program was attended by 25 students of class 8,9,10,11 and12. The key points covered were mainly related to job readiness that included:

• Exploring subjects and identifying areas of interests.
• Preparing for Aptitude tests.
• Strengthening General knowledge.
• Building command on languages; English (and Hindi).
• Practical applications of Math.
• Different types of jobs in Public and Private sectors.
• Options for Vocational trainings.

Dr Deepali Srivastava, Dr Rupaly Srivastava and Dr Anamika Pandey from IMA MPH Lucknow facilitated the program along with above teams. It was a general career development and awareness session; however, one to one sessions counselling can be built on it in future.