Personal Development Workshop – 17th July, 2018
Thursday 16 August 2018
Personal Development is an ongoing process which
enables an individual to work on themselves to become better professionals.
Usman Gillani a professional trainer started this workshop with a story about
two mountaineers who started an expedition with their teams. Both teams faced
similar weather conditions and had same destination points but the results of
both teams were different. After the expedition when the results were compared
it came out that the main reason for the winning team was their mindset. The
growth mindset enabled the students to perform better and excel in life. The
session was followed by an energizing activity for the participants.
Labels: Personal Development
posted by The Placement Office @ 10:21,
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Acing Your Interview (Mock Interviews) – 16th July, 2018
Thursday 9 August 2018
Raafay Munir from Metro Cash & Carry
conducted an interactive session to prepare the students for their upcoming job
interviews. He gave tips and techniques on how to give winning interviews from
his professional experience. In the session he gave examples of type of
interviews and how to tackle each one respectively. He stressed the importance
of being yourself and genuine in interviews Another important aspect of the
training was mock interview exercise where he conducted mock interviews with
students and gave detailed feedback at the end in order to improve their
interview giving skills.
Labels: Interviews
posted by The Placement Office @ 11:32,
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Power of Public Speaking Workshop – 13th July, 2018
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Usman Gillani, founder and owner Mashq
Consulting was invited to share
his valuable experiences regarding public speaking. He started off with a story
about his school time when he was asked to give a speech in front of the school
and how he was scared and unable to do so. He told the students that the art of
public speaking is one such skill that could be worked on and improved by
continuous hard work and dedication if one has the will. In his own life
example he quoted that during his bachelors time while doing a street play for
a project he realized the real power of public speaking. He asked the students
what is that they feel is a hindrance to public speaking and guided them
accordingly to make them better speakers. He also said that one has to just
fight the inner fear and practice to excel the skill of powerful public
speaking.
Labels: Public speaking
posted by The Placement Office @ 11:10,
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Effective Presentations Skills & Resume Writing Workshop – 12th July, 2018
Monday 6 August 2018
This session was conducted by Mariam Qadeer. She
talked about the importance of an effective presentation and discussed key
elements of an impactful presentation. It was an interactive session where she talked
about various real time examples from her professional career. She also talked
about elevator pitch and how to prepare an effective elevator speech. In the
second half of the session Maryam reviewed her own resume as an example to show
what a winning resume entails. Later she individually discussed each students
resume and corrections were made.
Labels: Presentation Skills, Resume Writing
posted by The Placement Office @ 09:53,
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Business / Professional Writing Workshop – 11th July, 2018
Friday 3 August 2018
Mariam Qadeer a Lahore School Alumni previously
working at Coca Cola Pakistan and now self-employed at an interior designing
firm, was invited to deliver a session on Business / Professional Writing. She
discussed in detail about all the pointers to be covered while drafting
effective emails. She quoted examples from her professional life where writing
powerful emails played a key role in how you are taken at work. Writing
professional and business emails is one tool that everyone needs to use on
daily basis and people who are good at it definitely have an edge over others.
The session was followed by an exercise where the participants were given a
situation and they needed to respond via email. At the end of the session the
participants were asked to read their emails aloud and corrections were made.
Labels: Business Writing
posted by The Placement Office @ 10:29,
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Advanced Excel Workshop – 9th & 10th July, 2018
Thursday 2 August 2018
Excel skills are the most crucial for students who
are about to enter job market as a certain level of excel knowledge is
mandatory in every job and the inability to work with excel is something that
cannot be acceptable from a graduate seeking job. To help the students learn
and improve their advanced excel skills Mr Mirza Afgan Babar a Lahore School
graduate currently working at Boeing, London was invited to conduct the
workshop. He started off with briefing about the learning objectives followed
by covering different functions and operations of excel which the students
practiced on their laptops on the data set provided to them.
Labels: Advanced Excel
posted by The Placement Office @ 14:40,
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Mathematical techniques for Organization Tests 2nd July, 2018 -6th July, 2018
Wednesday 1 August 2018
Mathematics being a major part of all organizational
tests is an integral skill that students need to master to clear tests and
secure jobs at reputable companies. To improve mathematical skills of students
and increase the probability of students clearing the tests five Mathematics
sessions were organized by the Placements office which covered techniques to crack
the questions in given time. The sessions were held from 2nd July,
2018 to 6th July, 2018.
Labels: Mathematics skills
posted by The Placement Office @ 13:16,
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