By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: More than 12,000 students, teachers and parents participated in the two-day ‘Career Fest Vision 2015’ program that ended yesterday.
‘The end of the program is the beginning of our efforts in this direction. A lot we intend to do in future,’ said Kazim Malik, one of the organizers.
Organized mainly to provide a platform for the students to directly interact with the experts the fest witnessed a huge number of beneficiaries from lectures, career guidance stalls and flag prints on various subjects.
With 50% student visitors the Engineering stall was the most approached besides Medical Science and IT & Management attracting 30% and 20% students respectively.
‘People who have their contributions are respected,’ famous career guidance expert Muhammad Najmul Hasan urged the students adding ‘the corporate world now has a big scope for those having good character besides skills.’
Shazia Ilmi of Star News, one of the role models on the stage, in her message to the students said, ‘Don’t talk always of discrimination. Be excellent and every thing will take care of itself.’
Lectures on Career in Mass Media, Medical CET (Information & Admission Process), Career in CACS/ICWA& CFA, Employability and You, Career in Sports and Career in Civil Services were presented by experts.
‘Innovation and expertise in other than your profession are must to have for every student,’ Dr. Murad, an Agriculture scientist conveyed the message.
In his Vote of Thanks the editor of Urdu daily Inquilab Shahid Lateef thanked all the participants for sparing their precious time. ‘Nothing but a wish to do for the community compelled them to do so. We should understand it.’
He added, ‘So far our discussions centered on our problems and we never talked of the solutions. We have resources but could not use them properly. The biggest resource of Iman (faith) that Allah is Musabbib-ul-Asbab (creator of resources)’ should stop us from being disappointed.’
Amir Edrisi, one of the co-coordinators termed the fest a successful event and said, ‘The response we got is beyond our expectation. We have received requests from different districts in Maharashtra for holding such programs. It is difficult for us to reach everywhere in India personally but through our vast network we intend to hold such programs in every city of the country on yearly basis. The students who have shown their interest in post graduation education we will hold special meetings for their guidance.’