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Report On Career Counseling Workshop Of Terapanth Professional Forum (TPF) - Raipur Branch

1st May, 2011 At New Circuit House, Civil Lines, Raipur

TPF, Raipur has successfully organized one day “Free Career Counseling Camp” at Conference Hall, New Circuit House, Civil Lines, Raipur. The camp received very good response both from the students as well as from parents. A total of 165 students have registered themselves for the camp and nearly 30 parents have participated actively in camp. The objective of the camp was to assist our young generation to find out their true potential through a systematic scientific process.

Inaugural Session:

The Inaugural session was chaired by Samani Jin Pragya ji and Samani Nutan Pragya ji the erudite disciples of Acharaya Shri Mahashraman ji. The Program was very well anchored by Mrs. Ritu S. Jain, the Chairperson, Career Counseling Programmer, TPF Raipur.

The camp started with the holy chanting of “Namaskar Mahamantra” by all present. Samani Nutan Pragya ji recited the “Mangalachanran”. Thereafter Shri Surendra Choraia, President, TPF Raipur welcomed all the eminent guests and the students. He also emphasized upon the need and importance of such Career Counseling Programs among the students. Shri Sushil Choraia, National Jt. Secretary and National Convener briefed the activities of TPF at the national level in this regard. Mr. Prakash Baid, Vice President TPF Central Zone shared his views on the programme and the motives behind that. Mr. Sunil Jain, Vice President, TPF Raipur read the massage received from Acharya Shri Mahashramanji and Pawan Baid, Vice President, TPF read the massage received from Muni Shri Rajnish ji, Prabhari, TPF.

The Inaugural Function was also graced by the eminent personalities of Terapanth Samaj including Sri Uttam Gandhi, Secretary, Terapanth Sabha, Raipur, Smt Lalita Dhariwal, President of Terapanth Mahila
Mandal, Raipur, Shri Virendra Daga, President, Terapanth Yuvak Parishad, Shri Suresh Dhiriwal, Shri Moti Lal Jain, Shri Roop Chand Jain and other eminent guests from various forums. In their speeches, they also complemented TPF Raipur for organizing such an event for the first time in Raipur.

The chief guest of the programme was Mr. Vivek Saxena, OSD, CM, Chhattisgarh. He in his speech emphasized on creating interest in whatever we do. He encouraged the students to take active participation in the camp to assess their interest and aptitude. Mr. Jai Shankar the Chief Counselor motivated the participants to do whatever they like most.

The most wonderful address was of Samani Jin Pragya ji. She said that everybody should learn three alphabets viz. “A, B & C”. A stands for “Ability”; one should have the ability and should do to the best of his/her ability, B stands for “Behavior”; which paves the path for success in one’s life and finally the most important C, which stands for “Character”. The most important aspect of one’s life is his/her character. A strong and successful personality builds on these three pillars. Everybody present in the camp was delighted with the blessings of Samanishri Jinpragya ji.

Thereafter the programme convener Ritu S. Jain summarized the whole proceedings in a lucid manner. She encouraged the students to follow the path shown by learned Samnishriji. Vote of thanks was delivered by Smt Indu Lodha, member TPF and Shri Jayant Bhura, Secretary TPF Raipur presented the memento to the chief guest Shri Vivek Saxena.

Test Session:

This part of the camp was well conducted by renowned career counselor Sri Jai Shankar, a post graduate from IIM, Kolkata and a certified quality facilitator from Philip Crosby Quality Institute. By illustrating live cases and thought provoking deliberations, he made the atmosphere extremely electrifying and involved each and every participant to understand and realize their inherent strengths to opt their best suited career prospects.

All the students and some of the parents have undergone the “Guilford-Zimmerman Interest Inventory Test” comprising of 150 statements from various stream and the NEO Personality Inventory Test comprising of 60 statements representing different attitude of a person. The Tests were self scored by the participants under the guidance of Shri Jaishankar.

Counselling Session:

After the lunch break, an Interactive Counseling Session held under the panel comprising of Shri Gautam Choraria, DM, Janjgir Champa and Yuvak Ratna of Terapanth Samaj for legal stream, Shri Sanjay K. Alang, Additional Collector, Revenue Department, Govt. of Chhattisgarh for Administrative Stream, Dr. Chandan Agrawal, Former Chairman of JAYSES for medical stream, Smt. Ritu S. Jain, Former Chairperson of CICASA for Commerce & Science Stream, Shri Sushil Daga, Software engineer for IT stream, Shri S. K. Jain, President TPF for Corporate Stream and Smt. Mamta Jain, the Psychologist for arts stream.

This panel of experts shared their views and experience about their respective career. The idea was to encourage a free and frank discussion among all the participants and to resolve their doubts and queries on career and future prospects in light of the results obtained in the psychometric tests. This Session was very effectively handled by eminent panelist speakers and they suggested new avenues, right perception and the various ways to know one’s true talent.

Very interesting principles have emerged from this session; mainly principles of three “V”s and the principle of “POM-POM” life. In principle of three Vs the alphabet V stands for Visualization, Verbalization and Versatility. Visualization is for dreaming your aim, verbalization is planning and versatility is for adoption or execution. Principle of “POM-POM” Life means living the life with peace of mind and plenty of money.

Valedictory Session:

During this session Mementos were presented to the Guest Career Counselors as a mark of gratitude for their valuable time. Two student participants viz. Rashmi Choraria and Vipul Jain shared their views about the programme. In their own words they found the entire process very interesting and encouraging.

They said that they are able to clear their doubts and dilemmas and the guidance helped them a lot in selecting a right career option for them. Shri Nitesh Khandelwal, one of the parents present in the forum also found the programme very useful and very effective. They said that they just came to drop their children but they found the programme so appealing that they attended the entire programme. Similar views were expressed by Smt. Neelam Sarda as well.

Mrs. Ritu S Jain summarized the entire proceedings and presented vote of Thanks to all eminent guests and participants on behalf of the entire TPF Team.

The program was convened by Mrs Ritu S Jain, TPF Raipur along with co-conveners Mr Rupesh Jain, Treasurer-TPF Raipur, Shri Umesh Jain, Shri Tarun Nahar, Smt Indu Lodha, Shri Sushil Daga, Smt Anamika Nahar and Mr. Pawan Baid.

Shri Sumit Nahata, Ms Priyanka Jaiswal, Shri Kamlesh, Ms Vinita and Shri Chetan Shrama and Ms Ankita Choraira and entire Working Committee team of TPF Raipur had put their best foot forward and worked day and night to make the camp a grand success.

Feedbacks:

The workshop received huge appreciation from the parents present and the participating students who urged on having such events at regular basis. The effort of entire TPF Team was applauded by all the present. We received about 122 feed backs on rating the career planning talk sessions and the utility of the entire programme. The response can be depicted from the graphs given below:

None of the participants has rated the programme below good levels. Out of 122 responses; 31% found the career planning talk sessions excellent whereas 48% found it very good. On utility of the programme 38% found this programme excellent whereas 51% found this as very good.

Photos:

TPF NATIONAL VP SRI PRAKASH BAID, NATIONAL Jt. SECRETARY AND NATIONAL CONVENER-CAREER COUNSELLING PROGRAM-SRI SUSHIL CHORARIA, COUNSELOR SRI JAYSHANKAR AND TPF RAIPUR PRESIDENT SRI SURENDRA CHORARIA TALKING WITH SAMNI JINPRAGYAJI AND SAMNI NUTAN PRAGYAJI ◄