DON BOSCO VAZHIKAATTI

A centre for job-placement and career guidance

Introduction

Don Bosco Institutions working all over the world in empowering the lives of young people have felt the need to accompany young people in the crucial moments of their lives when they make important decisions for their future.
In order to realize the felt need of the context, a centre for career guidance, training and job placement was established on 15^th August 2002 under the banner of `Don Bosco Vazhikaatti` to create an awareness among the rural youth about the job opportunities available in the government and private sectors, through self-employment schemes and career oriented services. ‘Don Bosco Vazhikaatti’ has been registered as an independent society on 16^th February 2009 under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975(TN Reg. No. 39/ 2009: 16/02/2009).
Don Bosco Vazhikaatti since its inception has made several remarkable interventions to create awareness among the marginalized youth on career options to impart necessary skills in view of placing them in suitable jobs and making them independent citizens. The organization was recognized by the National Integrity Cultural Academy and The State Human Rights Vigilance Organization and awarded for its outstanding performance in the field of career guidance and job placement, especially for the marginalized youth. In the last three years it has reached out to 31,953 students through 120 career guidance programmes and placed 1,267 people in employment out of 5,139 registered members.
At present ‘Don Bosco Vazhikaatti’ extends its services in the territory of Salesian Province of Tiruchy. Our target areas have youth who hail from different walks of life, such as, rural, coastal, tribal, agricultural, semi-urban and urban environments. Our centre has very strong network with many job placement cells in Southern Tamil Nadu, namely, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tuticorin, Salem, Trichy and other Don Bosco Educational Institutions, animated in three regions: Trichy, Salem and Tuticorin.

Vision:

Holistic empowerment of the youth, especially the poor and the marginalized, through `career guidance and job placement`.

Objectives:

To guide academic and technical school students to make right decisions by making known to them the availability of various career choices
To find suitable job placement for the poor and the marginalized youth (rural and urban) who are skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled in government and private sectors.
To follow up the youth, who have been freshly placed in jobs by the department, for the period of three months, through regular contacts and animations.
To identify the promising students and youth from our educational institutions and train them to appear for the government competitive exams
To impart life coping skills and managerial skills to the rural-urban poor youth to make them employable.
To motivate and train the young to be entrepreneurs in their field of skill and expertise
To network with government and non-government employment cells.
To make a scientific study of the job market and related researches that will provide adequate insight for the youth to choose career which have demand in the job market.

Our Activities

In the process of realizing the above said objective, the department is organized to carry out the following activities.

Career Guidance Services
Seminar on career guidance for school students and parents
Publication of career guidance (Articles and Books).
Seminars for teachers and instructors.
Enlisted candidates’ seminars.
Individual guidance.
Vettri Namadhe (Victory is ours) motivational programmes
Career guidance exhibitions.
Libraries in different centres
Job Placement Services
- Reach out to companies for placement.
- Collecting data base (Resume of Clients)
- Referral placement.
- Job-fairs and campus interviews
- Seminar on job acquiring skills.
- Self employment seminars.
- Post placement guidance
Coaching Classes for Jobs
- Preparing manuals for government competitive exams.
- Coaching and training students for government competitive exams
- Soft skills and communication skills trainings for students and youth.
- Facilitating youth to become entrepreneurs.
- Offering courses for learning foreign languages like Italian, Spanish, French, etc.
Job Information Network Services
- Networking of all resources on jobs and career.
- Library with books on government jobs, private jobs and self-employment.
- Facility for youth to acquire jobs through network resources.
- Periodical circulars to all the educational institutions on new job opportunities and relevant preparations.
- A web based job placement services
- A monthly e-magazine on job opportunities and career guidance can be circulated. It could also contain success stories of youth who benefitted through Don Bosco Vazhikaatti.
- Seminars can be organized in collaboration with the government sectors using Government resources.
Documentation and Job Research Services
- Job market research.
- Need analysis of courses and subjects.
- Skill requirements of the employees.
- Publication of books and researches
- Maintenance of the reports of the activities
- List of those placed and their company details

Structure

Bosco Employability Skill Training & Job Placement

Vazhikaatti is in the phase of rethinking and re-launching at greater heights. By realizing its significant role in the society, ‘Don Bosco Vazhikaatti’ plans to synergize its efforts to make itself more productive and beneficial to the youth of today. As a venture towards it Vazhikaatti has developed an idea of “Bosco Employability Skill Training” in order to empower the young.

United Kingdom Commission for Employability Skills (UKCES) gives the simplest definition of employability in terms of skills: ‘the skills almost everyone needs to do also most any job’. Employability skills do not stop with academic performance but it goes beyond it, to see how a person is tuned to himself in the sense of: Personally, Psychologically and Sociologically. This is the greater challenge which we face ahead of us.

In order to make our young people to be competent enough to gain these skills ‘Don Bosco Vazhikaatti” has drawn up a package in the name of “Bosco Employability Skill Training” programme for the College Students (UG/PG).

Bosco Employability Skill Training consists of:

Personal Skills: Personality development and Wellbeing of Wholeness
Social Skills: interpersonal Relationship and Social Skills

Employability Skills: Job Acquiring Skills

Personal Skills	Social Skills	Employability Skills	Creating Job opportunity
Self- Esteem	Developing Emotional skills	Choosing one’s career path	Registration
Attitude	Affective Maturity	Job Hunting Skills	Profile Verification
Goal Setting	Stress management	Effective Communication Skills	Job Aptitude Test
Time management	Negotiation Skills	Body Language	Knowledge of Various Job opportunities (Govt/ Private)
Creative Thinking	Leadership Skills	Personal Grooming and Professional Etiquette	Resume Contest
Decision making/ Problem Solving	Team Building	Telephone & Email Etiquette	Interview Demo
Self Regulation and Determination	Social Media	Interview Process	Company Expo….
Assertiveness		Mock Interview	Mega job fair
Wellness of the Person

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