This document provides information on how to be favorably competitive on the job market. It discusses that career orientation is designed to prepare students for living and working through understanding their interests and strengths. The objectives are to gain career information and skills to experience career opportunities. It also discusses developing a career plan, managing careers within organizations, and lifelong career development processes. Additionally, it outlines skills, values, and attributes needed like education, experience, personality, and adaptability to market oneself favorably. These factors combine to influence one's competitiveness on the job market.

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