Dubai Women's College(DWC) provided summer training in June and July to students from different majors so as to prepare them for future careers. The students, who attended the summer training, were paid Dhs1,500 to 3,000 each.
DWC is keen to qualify and prepare students interested in working in institutions and corporations during the summer vacations. For her part, Rabia Bekhazi, the supervisor of DWC CAREERS Department, said: "We succeeded this year to attract 36 different companies , which offered more than 380 summer training opportunities, including 23 private institutions and 12 governmental agencies and one semi-governmental institution." She further added that CAREERS organized this year's training along with summer workshops to all final-year students to prepare them for jobs in private and governmental companies and institutions."
Bekhazi said that the workshops aimed at strengthening CV writing and interview skills, in addition to building communication skills necessary for jobs.
According to Bekhazi, in early May 2010, DWC launched the "Hire for Summer Initiative" where students and potential graduates had the opportunity to submit their CV's to private and governmental institutions interested in recruiting DWC students for their available summer vacancies. "It is not necessary that students receive training in areas commensurate with their majoring. There are students who are interested in gaining new skills while other students prefer to have summer training in places suiting their college studies."
Bekhazi asserted that CAREERS aims at grooming students and graduates for future careers and educating them about planning for the future through programs, services and activities, which enable them to properly chart their education and careers during and after the college life, in addition to developing and managing top-quality work relations with graduates in order to encourage mutual learning and enhancing development and service programs.
She added that those benefiting from the services offered by CAREERS are all DWC students from year 1 to year 4. "CAREERS helps the student choose and evaluate her career path by means of career counseling and guidance through personal advice. An appointment is set for the student with a career guidance who handles her needs and helps her identify her potential and skills so as to enable her to fare well in certain major and its related careers.
This guidance also provides the chance to learn about different majors and careers thereby assisting students to make the best choices for them, besides guiding the prospective graduates towards job opportunities and choices and helping them identify their career values, explore jobs available and make them choose jobs that fulfill their objectives and career self-satisfaction."
Bekhazi remarked that good career planning and making the right majoring choice, which suits the student's personality and potential, lead to a bright future career. "This is the core of the services offered by CAREERS, which provides consulting services to boost students' abilities in terms of job planning and opportunities," she concluded.
