This document outlines a career management initiative in Pakistan that aims to engage, train, and empower 150 youth representatives from universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and FATA. It will begin with orientation sessions, followed by training workshops to provide career counseling and management skills. The goal is to help youth develop their potentials and choose careers aligned with their interests, skills, and values. Trainees will then serve as career counselors on their campuses to empower other youth. The program addresses challenges facing Pakistani youth like poor education, lack of skills, and vulnerability to radicalization.

1. CAREER MANAGEMENT- YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE
Abstract:
To engage (1500-2000), train, and empower 150 youth’s group representatives
(male/female) as Trainers (TOT) selected from public and private sectors universities
and educational institutes of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa/FATA through the program/project-
Career Management.
Initially the project will be launched through orientation sessions/seminars
(Engagement) followed by Master training workshops (Empowerment) in public,
private sectors universities and educational institutes of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa/FATA
as a pilot project and then will be continued in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and
Quetta.
Challenge:
Pakistan is faced with multi-faceted conflicts – religious, political, social, sectarian,
and economic. It is essential to address these challenges through engagement,
peace building and empowerment initiatives at every level especially university
graduates and youths. According to the youth ministry, almost 60 per cent of
Pakistan’s population is under the age of 25, a ratio higher in areas such as Khyber
Pakhtunkhawa and FATA.
Poor social conditions precipitated with socio-economic backwardness; poor
governance, high population growth, poor education, lack of skill-development,
infrastructure facility, the war against terrorism; its consequences and impact and
little awareness among parents of how to protect their children from radicalization
has made the youth of these areas very vulnerable to an uninformed, skewed and
dangerous discourse.
Therefore, engagement with young people and providing them with career
managing skills and empowering them for an informed point of view was thought to
be an effective initiative.
Initiative:
The proposal titled as “Career Management- a youth engagement and
empowerment Initiative” or Secrets of the Career Success is designed for the
ambitious youths who are dreaming for a challenging and rewarding Career or
professions. These youths have the potentials and abilities yet bewildered and do
not find the right direction or position because of lack of career education,
orientation sessions- what to choose(subject) and how to choose their career,

2. business, profession or vocation compatible with their personality(aptitude, values,
interests, skills)
The program will provide the targeted youths with an opportunity to interact in
preparing for a journey of self reflection, personal development, critical thinking,
effective management of conflicts and career decisions and to realize their
potentials in their chosen fields.
The trainees will be empowered and prepared to wok as Career Counselors, young
leaders, ambassadors of success and peace in their respective institutes and to
empower the youths in realizing their potentials.
The subject matter is approached through orientation sessions, lectures, discussion,
group work and exercises, motivational and critical thinking videos, and case studies.
The targeted audience of the said program is educational Institutes, public and
private sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa/FATA ,Islamabad, Lahore,
Karachi, and Quetta.
Monitoring and Evaluation:
Team of Atlas Corps-Pakistan
Project coordinator:
Mr. Zafar Ullah Jan-IVLP(Peshawar)
Objectives/Expected Outcomes:
At the end of the session the participants will be able to:
a) Know the requirements and essentials of a perfect career that would
lead them how to choose their career compatible with their interests,
values, skills and personality.
b) Understand market dynamics –local, national and global realities,
multinational culture, and develop a culturally-infused understanding of
diversity - age, gender, ethnicity, world religions, critical thinking and
understanding nature of conflicts (Peace Education) and how to assume
their leadership role.
c) Understand how to set career goals and what it takes to manage a
career effectively; Identify the key strengths, passions and broad range of
transferable skills and gain a better understanding of long term career goals and
Create a plan of action/fulfillment

3. d) To identify the participant’s personalities and suggest them
recommended professions (workshop participants only) to make a
smooth transition from who am, to what I want to be, and to what I
like to have in my life.
Strategy and Launch of the program:
Stage 1- Visits/Appointments:
Visits and Appointments with the officials of the public and private sector
universities, educational institutes and colleges concerned to schedule the
seminars/orientation sessions
Stage 2- Seminars/Orientation session
Orientation and Introduction of Career Management sessions/seminars in public
and private sectors universities and educational institutes of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa as
a Pilot Project followed by formal launch in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Quetta
Stage 3- Master Training Workshops:
Orientation sessions/seminars will be followed by Master Training workshops of
selected graduates in public and private sectors universities in KPK and then in
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Quetta
Trainees Composition:
Male and Female. Departmental/Subject wise; Islamic Education (Religious
Scholars), Social Sciences (Political Science, International Relations and Sociology),
Literature (Arabic, Persian, English, Urdu, Pashto) B.Ed./M.Ed. and Management
Sciences
Training Workshop:
Career Workshop Outline
Introductions and Session Overview
Purpose of the workshop
Ground rules for the session and participants’ expectations

4. What makes us happy at work-Purpose, meaning and Autonomy?
Multiple Intelligences or DISC video
What I want to be? Creating a vision and what stop us to be there-- Why the
conflict? Critical Thinking;
Motivation; Extrinsic and intrinsic or intuition
Developing the strategy to reach that vision and make it happen
Starting inside out - The importance of “knowing thyself”
Global Realities; accepting the responsibilities
Discovering the real YOU: strengths, talent and potential, passions, needs,
inspiration, desires, skills, values, goals (decision making criteria/foundation)
Professional Self-profile PSP
What employers are looking for---Exercise before the start of the 2nd session
Generating career options
Possible work settings - what appeals that would be a starting point for exploration
for future
Reactive and proactive, survivors and thrivers---reasons
Plan for action (fulfillment plan)
Career Goal setting and Decision making,
Resources you can use (RIASEC)
Internship and its importance
Development of Personal Profile----
John Holland-Recommended profession,
Role Models—group presentation
Wrap- up and Evaluation of Session
Zafar Ullah Jan: A brief profile
The course leader Mr. Zafar Ullah Jan- PhD Research Scholar, a Gold Medalist MA
and MBA in Human Resources, is a British Council certified trainer and Executive
Director of National Centre for Capacity Building and Empowerment.
Mr. Zafar Ullah Jan has represented Pakistan in Saudi Arabia at the 2006 Jeddah
Conference of the Organization of Islamic Conference. It was in this capacity that he

5. was assigned the responsibility to work as a Students Counselor in Khyber
Pakhtunkhawa/FATA (the then NWFP) and Baluchistan.
In 2007, he joined International Centre for Religion and Diplomacy www.icrd.org as
Country Program Coordinator and organized in-country trainings, counseling
workshops and consultative events.
A facilitator and trainer popularly known by his colleagues as a career counselor,
believes in Deliver, Lead and Empower phenomena.
Mr. Jan has represented Pakistan in Doha Summit- Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow
www.muslimleadersoftomorrow.org in 2009. His initiatives and leading role
resulted in successful culmination of awarding him the arduous task of formation of
Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow-The Pakistan Chapter.
In 2011 represented Pakistan in USA though International Visitors Leadership
Program (IVLP) and retuned with creative and innovative ideas of leading and
leadership with a determination to empower the youths in Pakistan. It is worth
mentioning that recently Mr. Jan has represented Pakistan in Bound to Live Together
in Germany.
Secrets of a successful career is an important and equally demanding requirement
in the public and corporate sector, universities and educational institutions to
direct and chanalize the potential and talent of the ambitious and bewildered youth
in the right direction at all level. This work is the product of his research work,
experience, and practical insights of his national and international exposure. During
his session he is aiming to produce positive and effective results, to chanalize the HR
factor in the right direction-to effectively manage the potentials, talent, sources and
resources and even the weaknesses in a proper way to produce the desired results.
He is currently working as faculty member in Khyber Medical College Peshawar,
Institute of Management Sciences and represents National Centre for Capacity
Building and Empowerment in Kabul and Pakistan.