Course Description- Learn to Empower Yourself to Achieve Success

Training Course for Undergraduate Students

This course can help prepare you to successfully obtain a job after Graduation

Course Description

Learn to Empower Yourself to Achieve Success is a training course designed for undergraduate university students to prepare them to be successful in getting jobs after their graduation from the university. The course aims to achieve this feat by strengthening/enhancing the students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes/behaviors. The course will cover several important topics: self awareness, essential life skills, the psychology behind job finding, and how to successfully collaborate with others in the spirit of team work. After the completion of this course, participants will feel more confident about themselves because of the knowledge and skills they acquire.

Session I: Self Discovery

In this session of Self Discovery, participants will be involved in a fun process of discovering many of their strengths, talents or interests. They will learn to understand themselves better by gaining insights about their personal history. They will have fun in activities that are constructed to help them express their feeling freely in a warm, supportive atmosphere. As a result, they may find that their weakness can become their strengths. This revelation can greatly reduce stress and build self confidence.

Session II: Life Skills for Success

In this Life Skills for Success session, students will learn about a variety of life skills that are essential in helping young people cope and navigate through life successfully. Life is full of challenging problems that requires many creative solutions. Students will learn these many creative, unconventional problem solving techniques in this session. Just to name a few, students will learn about stress management, presentation skills, communication skills, relationship skills, etc. Participants will feel more reassured after this session as they have obtain some vital tools that will help contribute to their successful journey through life.

Session III: Obtaining Employment

Getting a good job is the central concern of every student that is about to graduate. Cambodia job market is very competitive and requires that a person has many skills to capture the attention of the employer. In this session, we will teach you the necessary skills and techniques that will help you stand out from the rest of the competition. You will learn skills about how to properly respond to the advertisement, how to write cover letter and CV/resume, the psychology of answering difficult questions, and how to build good rapport with the interviewers. Gaining these skills and techniques will make a huge difference in your level of confidence.

Session IV: Teamwork

“Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.” Planning is vital if you want to achieve success. Planning alone, however, can be difficult and time consuming; but eliciting the ideas of other people and plan as a group can lead to great efficiency. This session will introduce participants to understand the nature, process, and challenges of teamwork. Students will learn about the psychology of group dynamics. Understanding the concepts of group dynamics will help participants cope with crises that can occur as they collaborate their efforts with others in a group setting. Knowing about group dynamics will also help you gain confidence as it pertains to leadership skills.