KAFD Career Counseling Offices

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Concept:

KAFD established offices for career counseling in the deanship of student affairs, to provide the students with professional advice and technical consultation in communication skills job search.This enhances the marketing chances for the university graduates, and links the student community to private sector foundations and civil society associations, on national, regional and international levels.

Objectives:

  • Providing a data base concerning the market needs of human resources.

  • Matching the students' training on communication skills with the actual needs of the market, as a fundamental requirement to integrate the input and the output of the market and educational system, respectively.

  • Enhancing work ethics and values.  
  • Helping students in obtaining permanent job opportunities after graduation, or temporarily ones during years of study.
  • Linking the student community in the universities with the activities of the private sector and the civil society.

Services:

  • Training the students on the skills of searching job opportunities, creating professional CV , job interviewing skills Negotiating job rights (contract, salary, incentives and advantages).

  • Sustaining updated information about the market needs.

  • Helping the students to rightly transfer from their academic environment to the practical professional market environment.
  • Assisting the students in developing their personal capabilities in a way that corresponds with the real needs of the market.

  • Securing the students with permanent or temporarily job opportunities, and helping those who are interested to join in voluntary work programs and public service activities.

  • Providing the students and the graduates with technical counseling and advisory, to enhance their ability in attaining available job opportunities through:

  1. Giving career and profession counseling.

  2. Organizing several specialized workshops using the data base and the information provided by the offices.

  3. Carrying out training courses and offering services in coordination with centers of continuous learning.

  4. Coordinating with specialists to prepare and organize applied training courses, which give the students essential practical experience within their field of study before graduation.

  5. Assisting the students and graduates in determining their career goals and objectives, through finding out the individual skills needed in different career areas.

Beneficiaries:

  • Students and graduates.

  • Public and private universities.

  • Private sector and Civil society organizations.

Over the past four years the career counseling offices provided 846 training course, 11786 job opportunity and 5591 part time job opportunity.