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Career Guidance at Salesian College Sonada by the Alumni
The Alumni Association of Salesian College Sonada (2005 batch) organized the third major event of the year by bringing together 250 students from the local colleges and schools for a career guidance programme on 22 April 2006. Four professions were significantly chosen after preliminary consultations with students and staff of the participant institutions. The professions represented were Air Force, Army, Civil Services and Tourism and Air Travel Hospitality.
Though career guidance is a regular feature in Darjeeling town organized by the CICAC (DGAHC) and the Rotary Club, often the students from the Sonada region fail to participate in the event due to distance and financial constraints. In order to tide over the difficulty, the Alumni of Salesian College had in the previous year brought the experts from the Darjeeling team to address the local students in July 2005. However, this time, it was specified to four streams and more time was allocated for personal interviews with the resource persons. The resource persons from the Army, the Air force, the Frankfinn Institute and Ideal institutes, Siliguri, were impressed by the attentiveness and inquisitiveness the students showed in the interactive sessions.
The programme was coordinated under the leadership of the president Miss Nima Lamu and the secretary Mr Dhendup Passang Sherpa and their team members. The College auditorium and lecture halls were allocated after the initial motivational talks for the respective professions to give further details to the students who opted for one or the other through interviews and question answer session.
Career Guidance has been found to be an incentive and motivational factor for students of even earlier classes. The choice of ones vocation in life necessarily focuses the study and gives ideas of better time management to the students. The Alumni of SCS, have found it a successful venture in as much as the second event of this nature received good support from the school management and the students.
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