“A wise man’s actions speak for himself.”
Sabahat
“एक बुद्धिमान व्यक्ति के कार्य उसके बारे में जानकारी प्रदान कर देते हैं।”
सबाहट
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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Current Affairs-September 11, 2022
INDIA
– PM Modi speaks to his UK counterpart Elizabeth Truss on phone
– Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announces holding of Swachh Amrit Mahotsav from Sept 17 to Oct 2
– National Conference on Sustainable Coastal Management in India being held at Bhubaneswar in Odisha on Sept 10-11
– Indian Embassy in Beijing issues advisory for students seeking medical degree from China; those who wish to seek admission for undergraduate clinical medicine programme in China are required to obtain a license to practice medicine in China before they appear for the Foreign Medical Graduates Exam (FMGE) in India
– PM inaugurates 2-day ‘Centre-State Science Conclave’ in Ahmedabad via video conferencing
– India’s eastern-most military garrison of Kibithu in Arunachal Pradesh named after Gen Bipin Rawat
– Chhattisgarh: CM Bhupesh Baghel inaugurates 2 more districts: Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur and Sakti, takes total to 33
– Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel unveils ‘Cinematic Tourism Policy’
– Renowned archaeologist Braj Basi Lal dies at 101
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– India stays out of Trade Policy Pillar at IPEF (Indo-Pacific Economic Forum)– Piyush Goyal addresses event hosted by US-India Strategic Partnership Forum in Los Angeles
WORLD
– King Charles III proclaimed Britain’s new monarch
– UK: King Charles III names William and Kate as the Prince and Princess of Wales
Current Affairs- September 12, 2022
INDIA
– Navy launches stealth frigate Taragiri, built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, in Mumbai
– President Droupadi Murmu nominates Gulam Ali from J&K to Rajya Sabha
– Rajasthan launches ‘Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Scheme’ to provide 100 days of employment in a year to families residing in urban areas
– India signs MoU with Gulf Cooperation Council to facilitate consultation
– External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar addresses diplomats at the Prince Saud Al Faisal Institute of Diplomatic Studies in Riyadh.
– Army conducts Exercise Parvat Prahar in Ladakh sector
– Centre fixes total number of seats in Municipal Corporation of Delhi at 250
– Veteran actor and former union minister Krishnam Raju dies aged 83 in Hyderabad
– Dwarka peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati dies at 99 in Narasinghpur (MP)
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– Two-day National Defense MSME Conclave and Exhibition begins in Kota, Rajasthan
– Production of Vande Bharat train to begun from October: Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
– Centre imposes 20% duty on rice exports of various grades
BUSINESSLINE CHANGEMAKER AWARDS
– Presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi in six categories
– Changemaker of the year: Bharat Biotech
– Iconic Changemaker of the year: Mithali Raj
– Changemaker Digital Transformation Award: DeHaat
– Changemaker Financial Transformation Award: Zerodha
– Changemaker Social Transformation Award: Ramesh Raliya
– Young Changemaker Award: Akash Singh and Prachi Shevgaonkar
WORLD
– Russia announces troop pullback from two areas in Kharkiv region of Ukraine
– Last reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant stopped says operator Energoatom
– 3 dead after 7.6 earthquake hits remote part of Papua New Guinea
SPORTS
– US Open tennis in New York: Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz (men’s), Poland’s Iga Swiatek (women’s) win singles titles
– Max Verstappen of Red Bull wins Formula One Italian Grand Prix at Monza
– Sri Lanka (170/6) defeat Pakistan (147/10) by 23 runs in final at Dubai to win Asia Cup
– Karnataka win 75th Senior National Aquatic Championships held in Guwahati
Career as a Career counsellor; what does a career counsellor do?
Who is a career counsellor
Once we enter into our professional lives, we spend a lion’s share of our day engaged in our work. Hence, choosing the right career and starting on the journey as early as possible are of the utmost importance. Your interests, skills, values, personality, background, environment, every such thing contributes to your career development. Apart from that, there are also other factors that make a difference. Career counselling is a process that helps you understand both yourself and the corporate world. Armed with this knowledge, you can choose the right courses to study or jobs to apply to for success.
Career development is not simply restricted to deciding where you will work post your graduation. Its wider purpose is to provide you with the knowledge and skills you need for making your future career bright.
What does a career counsellor do?
Career counsellors are trained to help people make the right career choices. Whether the person is new to the workforce or or is looking for a career change, a career advisor can steer them in the best possible direction.
These professionals analyse the candidate’s complete background, interests, education, skills and personality so as to understand what would be the best fit for you. Then then use the information to steer them towards the best educational options as well as job opportunities, depending on their requirements.
As a career counsellors, you must have in-depth knowledge of the skills required in various fields, as well as the ability to gauge a person’s soft skills through various means of assessment. After assessing clients, you will then match them wih jobs that match their skill levels, interests, qualification and of course salary expectation.
As a career counsellor, you will also be in a position to advice the candidate on key factors that affect their choices - such as how much salary and what perks they should expect, how they should approach an interview, what extra curriculars they should take up alongside their studies to land their dream job, etc.
Here are some of the things that good career counsellor do as a part of their job:
- Conduct personality and career tests to assess the client's skills and areas of interests
- Identify career opportunities and educate clients about those options
- Provide references to different programs like training opportunities and educational programs
- Assist clients in finding good internships and jobs opportunities
- Train clients to crack interviews by conducting mock interview sessions with them
- Advice them on what they should expect out of a job or a course, and how it fits into their ultimate career goal
Career counselling scope in India
With new technological and social developments happening every day and the lines between traditional professions blurring constantly, it is not easy to pinpoint one profession that a person should opt for. With numerous and often confusing channels of information, people always pfer to turn towards well-trained career advisors to clear the confusion and provide clear actionable advise. Career advisors should, thus, be very familiar with market trends so they can greatly contribute to career development at the individual level.
At over 350 million, India has the largest student population in the entire world. Understandably, there is a need for career counsellors for guiding these students as they progress through their academic careers. With more and more students willing to start the discussion about a career at an early age, the need for career guidance is rapidly growing.
As a direct result, the market for career assessment, advisory and counselling services in out country is only projected to grow, creating more room for competent career counsellors to enter into the market.
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Online Courses
Career counselling is an industry that anyone can enter into - the only prerequisite needed being people skills and having a real passion to help people change their lives for the better. Regardless of your technical or educational background, the door to this profession is always open for you. Mentioned below are a few of the finest online courses that can serve as the perfect stepping stone into a promising career in career counselling.
- The Certified Career Analyst Programme
- Certified Career Counsellor by Udemy
- Basics of Counselling and Career Counselling For Beginners by Udemy
- Career Counselling Certification for coaches and job seekers by Udemy
The field of career counselling helps you build great personality, but it will also help you become more organised as a person. Career counsellors analyse, and use tools to help individuals determine their career paths. They work with a wide range of clients at different stages of their life. So are you ready with your tool now?
Source: The Telegraph, 7/09/22
Refugee of a kind: ‘I need to breathe free and feel equal to my fellowmen’
I am a man without a land. In the American foreign service, I served periodically as a Refugee Officer, helping refugees from Bhutan, China and Haiti. Now I am a refugee of a kind. In my mind, I belong to no land.
India was the land of my birth. I had no intention of leaving the country. But I fell in love, and the person was American, disallowed to work in India. I moved to the US. I worked in business, for a UN agency and then became a diplomat. Never have I felt ashamed to belong to the country of my birth or the country of my adoption. Now I do.
The US Supreme Court has decided that a football coach can create a religious sideshow by going on his knees on the field, praying publicly and inviting others to join him. The coach did so on public school grounds against a sensible school policy in a district where other religions like Judaism, Hinduism and Islam exist. The US Constitution prohibits State approval of any religion. He was not praying privately; he was making a demonstration of his Christian prayer, asking, in effect coercing, his non-believing players and their friends, as well as other players, to join him and make a public spectacle of his faith. This in a country where more than half the people do not go to a church or temple and one-fifth does not believe in god.
It is exactly like a school teacher praying before a class or a government boss reading scripture before subordinates. A student who doesn’t believe in religion or a subordinate who finds the text repugnant is cowed into silence and subservience. A society that allows that has a hollow reverence for its faith and forces its beliefs on people it cannot win by its values. Leaders who do that are doing no better than conquistadors who won converts by the sword. The US Supreme Court has six Catholics and one Episcopalian who was brought up Catholic — totally unrepresentative of the country — and is forcing values down the throat of a resistant and resentful people.
When India became independent and Pakistan declared itself a Muslim country, many wanted to make India a Hindu nation. Leaders who saw the wisdom of making India secular and a harbour for people of all faiths foiled that thrust. A struggling new nation, India grew from diverse contributions. A Christian could become a governor or a cabinet member, a Zoroastrian could be a defence chief, a Muslim could be the president of the country.
Just as some whites in the US resent the rise of blacks into affluence and power, there has been among some in India a seething resentment against Muslims: those who lost their homes in Pakistan or believe in an ultra-nationalist Hindu India. That resentment has been now fanned into a frenzied zeal to marginalise the Muslims. Laws to deny them citizenship. Policies to bar them from public service. Vending beef has become a crime — Muslims have been lynched for that sin. Mosques have been harassed, their services disrupted.
The intolerance has extended to churches. Their events interrupted, pastors detained on spurious charges. In an ostensible democracy whose Constitution promised religious freedom, it is now an offence to change faith. Even to marry a person of a non-Hindu faith is subject to intimidation masquerading as a need for official approval.
India lives today under what Gandhi called “lawless laws”. Its Constitution proscribes an official religion but its leaders openly flout that provision. Official events begin with Hindu incantations; Hindu priests preside over government celebrations; senior leaders display their Hindu piety at assorted temples. These leaders are not exhibiting their spiritual fervor. They are demonstrating their ardour to trample on the Constitution and create a pseudo-religious State.
I believe in freedom, including the freedom of faith, the freedom to believe in what I choose, and the freedom to change my mind and embrace another faith. I should be able to court and marry another person of whatever faith. I should be able to do all this without fear. I need to breathe free and feel equal to my fellowmen.
Source: The Telegraph, 9/09/22
International Literacy Day: UNESCO makes unique endeavour in 2022
Each year, the International Literacy Day is celebrated on September 8. The day founded by UNESCO in 1966, aims to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights
The day draws attention towards the challenges of illiteracy, highlights the need for steps and efforts to help create literate societies.
International Literacy Day 2022 – Theme
The theme for International Literacy Day 2022 is ‘Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces’. According to UNESCO, this will be an opportunity to rethink the fundamental importance of literacy learning spaces for building resilience and ensuring quality, equitable and inclusive education for all, in the aftermath of the pandemic which laid bare a huge divide between the haves and have-nots when it came to learning accessibility.
“At the global level, a two-day hybrid international event will be organized on 8 and 9 September 2022, in Côte d’Ivoire. The International Literacy Day global celebration lies at the heart of regional, country and local levels. As such, this year’s outstanding programmes and literacy practices will be announced through the 2022 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes award ceremony,” UNESCO said.
International Literacy Day – History
Though the idea behind celebrating International Literacy Day dates back to the “World Conference of Ministers of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy” held in Tehran, Iran in 1965, it was UNESCO which finally declared September 8 as the International Literacy Day in 1966.
International Literacy Day-Significance
The main purpose behind celebrating the day is to remind the international community of the need for literacy for individuals, communities and societies, the cruciality of taking efforts towards creating literate societies.
The day aims towards motivating individuals, societies and nations to make efforts to end illiteracy.
International Literacy Day- Traditions
On this day, individuals and organization work towards providing help, encouraging those who face difficulty in reading and writing. Books are donated to libraries and tuition, learning is sponsored for those in need.Government, private institutions and international organization organize campaigns for literacy at the grassroots level. They also host fundraisers for the cause.
Source: The Federal, 08/09/22
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