1. How to be Favourably Competitive on the Job Market

2. Facilitated by:
1. Henry Clarke Kisembo
hkisembo@gmail.com
0788657721 and 0728301147

3. Career Orientation
Career Orientation is a comprehensive and sequential
educational concept designed to provide individuals at
the middle school level with the necessary information
and experience to prepare them for living and working
in an ever-changing economy, society, and
environment.

4. Career Orientation
Career Orientation is a career development
instructional guidance program designed to prepare
students to have a greater understanding of
educational and career opportunities and options and
to assist them in making meaningful and informed
career choices.

5. Objectives of Career Orientation
• To gain an understanding of your own interests,abilities,
aptitudes, and strengths.
• To develop an individual inventory of valuable career
development foundation skills.
• To gain valuable career information and related job training
options and opportunities.

6. Objectives of career Orientation
• To become acquainted with various forms of employment
and to develop job acquisition and job retention skills.
• To experience hands-on activities for self appraisal purposes
and for exploratory career experiences.
• To develop a tentative career and educational plan relevant
to their individual interests, abilities, aptitudes, and goals.

7. Career Development
In organizational development (or OD), the study of
career development looks at:
 how individuals manage their careers within and
between organizations
 and how organizations structure the career progress of
their members, it can also be tied into succession
planning within some organizations.

8. Career Development
In personal development, career development is:
 " ... the total constellation of psychological, sociological,
educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that
combine to influence the nature and significance of work
in the total lifespan of any given individual."
 "... the lifelong psychological and behavioral processes as
well as contextual influences shaping one’s career over the
life span. As such, career development involves the person’s
creation of a career pattern, decision-making style,
integration of life roles, values expression, and life-role self
concepts."

9. Being Favourably Competitive on
the Job Market
Being Favourably competitive on the job market
combines a variety of aspects and factors including;
Education background, skills attained, Work
Experience, Environment, Access to Labour markets
information, Ability and willingness to sale oneself,
Timing, personality and Character.

10. Skills, Values and Personal
attributes
 Selling oneself (Writing a CV)
 Understanding interview processes and preparing
 Understanding your studies career path
 Access to information on labour markets
 Environment around the labour markets and within
the workplace
 Exploring opportunities; Volunteering, Internships,
Attachments and Mentorship programs

11. Skills, Values and Personal
attributes
 Timing; knowing when the job market is on the high or low
 Personality and Character; Honesty, Ambition, Creativity,
Flexibility, Focus, Organized, Enterprising, Attitude,
Confidence, Not money driven, Self expression, Time
management, Not desperate, Communication,
Interpersonal relations, Team work, Negotiation ability,
Leadership qualities, Trust, Dependable,

12. Workplace Ethics and attributes
 Set goals and priorities
 Decision making; strategic and rational thinking
 Knowledge of duties and responsibilities
 Respect not fear; people and property
 Conflict resolution
 Customer care
 Report writing

13. Conclusion
 In life you have to set goals and priorities, need to
understand yourself and also the environment you are
living, need to make strategic, rational and sound decisions
and judgement; although there will be challenges in your
pursuit for happpiness, the bottom line is to see
opportunities and place yourself in a position to take
advantage of them; it all begins with you.

14. Resources for job opportunities
 Newspapers; Invaho, Newtimes
 Websites; www.yesrwandajobs.org; www.lmis.co.rw;
www.reliefweb.int; www.vsojitolee.org; www.dot.org
 Networks and associations; JCI Rwanda, YES Rwanda,
DOT Rwanda, PSF, RDB, MIFOTRA, MINIYOUTH etc
 Inform friends and family and circulate your CV

15.  Murakoze Cyane
 Merci beaucoup
 Thanks a lot