japura university career fair post event report

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Main Event Sponsor Official Printing Partner An Effort to Bridge the Gap between University & Industry

Society of Industrial Scholars

WORKSHOP SERIES &

CAREER FAIR 2016

Organized by the Society of Industrial Scholars in Faculty of Applied Sciences in University of Sri Jayewardenepura

The Career Fair 2016 marked a

milestone in the history of events

organized by the Society of

Industrial Scholars with the

valuable participation of top

companies in Sri Lanka including

MAS Holdings, Brandix Group,

Astron Limited, Coca-Cola,

Sampath Bank, Hayleys PLC,

Millennium IT, hSenid,

Hirdaramani, Embla Software

Innovations, etc. Interviews were

conducted on the day of the

career fair by these companies,

who were given the choice of

either sort applicants themselves

on the event date or to conduct

walk in interviews.

149 undergraduates & recently

passed out graduates

participated for the three day

workshop series on: leadership

and soft skills, Public Speaking

Skills, Personal Grooming, CV

writing & Interview Facing

Post Event Report

Prepared by:

Sheshan Jayaratne

13th May 2016

Photo Credits:

- Kaushika Devanarayana

- Thesaru Wemukshitha

- Japura flames

- Japura media

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In This Report You Will Find…

… The Topic …On Page 01. About us 3 02. Agenda of the Workshops 4 03. Session Outline 5 to 9 04. The Industry-University Linkage 10 05. Career Fair Interviews 11 06. Summary of Participation 12 & 13 07. Our Impact 14 08. Our Corporate Partners 15 09. Organizing Committee 16 10. Feedback and Comments 17 to 19

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About us

The University of Sri Jayewardenepura has

always been a well reputed educational

institute that produces highly qualified and

well-rounded undergraduates to the

academic and industrial world. In 2014 the

Faculty of Applied Sciences in University of

Sri Jayewardenepura introduced a new

four year degree program, known as ‘B.Sc.

(Hons) Degree in Applied Sciences’, which

is specifically focused to cater the

industrial needs. This degree program

covers areas such as Management Science,

Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics,

Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Plant

Biotechnology, Plant Biology,

Environmental Management & Forestry

and Polymer Science & Technology.

With the two years’ progressive existence

of the degree program, the ‘Society of

Industrial Scholars’ was formulated by its

student body in 2015 with a motive of

continuous improvement of its quality and

student performance. The Society has

organized numerous value adding events

to its course of history within a short

period of its inception.

The Workshop Series & Career Fair 2016 is

such another event added recently to its

events history.

“Think Like an Entrepreneur” With Ms. Otara Gunawardene

“If U Can Dream It, U can Do it” With Mr. Rohan Pallewatte

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Date

Workshop Theme

Time

Name of the Resource person

Description

25.04.2016 (Mon)

Soft skills development

9.00am- 12.00pm

Mr. Mahesh Jayasinghe

, the Executive Coach and

Consultant of Mpower Softskills

Pvt. Ltd.

Team work, Creativity, Decision making,

people Handling etc.

Leadership

1.00pm-

4.00pm

Leadership skills activities, etc.

26.04.2016 (Tue)

Public Speaking

9.00am- 12.00pm

Toastmaster

Sandun Fernando

Use of body language, organizing the speech,

vocal variations, Eye contact, Techniques to control anxiety inspiring

the audience and etc.

CV writing

1.00pm-

4.00pm

Ms. Chathurangani

Thennakoon, Career Advisor,

Career Guidance Unit, USJP.

CV preparation, Mistakes in CVs, CV

formats Identification and rectification of mistakes

in a CV, etc.

27.04.2016 (Wed)

Personal

Grooming

9.00am-

12.00pm

Mr. Mahesh

Jayasinghe, the Executive

Coach and

Consultant of Mpower Softskills

Pvt. Ltd.

Dress codes, personal Hygiene, Dining Etiquette etc.

Interview Facing

1.00pm-4.00pm

Ms. Ayona Hettiaarachchi

MAS Holdings Pvt.

Ltd.

How to face an interview successfully, Tips, etc.

Agenda of Workshop Series

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Day 01

Leadership and Soft Skills Development

The opening ceremony was graced

Mr. Mahesh Jayasinghe, the

Executive Coach and Consultant of

Mpower Softskills Pvt. Ltd. with a

spectacular and persuasive session on

leadership, followed by illustrative

sessions on soft skills development

definitely helped out the participants

find their correct place in the modern

diverse society and to discover and

develop their hidden leadership

potential in accordance with world-

wide leaders’ experiences.

This session surely made a countless

influence on all the participants

paving the way to expose hidden

talents, leadership skills and team

spirit of participants in order to

achieve our main focus of the day;

"Discover the Potential within You".

Session Outline

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Day 02

1. Public Speaking

The session on public speaking was

conducted by the Toastmaster Sandun

Fernando, which inspired the audience to

a greater extent towards developing their

English vocabulary and effective use of

postures and gestures while addressing a

gathering.

The Session was well appreciated by the

audience as a very valuable session. The

inspiration of the session was undeniably

proven by the students who motivated to

stand up and speak about their experience

of the day in front of everyone.

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Day 02

2. CV writing

The session on CV writing was

conducted by

Mrs. Chathurangani Tennakoon,

Career Advisor at the Career

Guidance Unit in the University.

It was one of the most important

sessions for the participants

during the workshops as writing

a proper and attractive CV is the

basic tool used for marketing

oneself before being called for

an Interview.

After the session was concluded,

the participants were invited for

a CV Clinic to correct any

mistakes in their CVs.

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Day 03

1. Personal Grooming

An interactive and a very

illustrative session on

personal grooming was

conducted by Mr. Mahesh

Jayasinghe, the Executive

Coach and Consultant of

Mpower Softskills Pvt. Ltd.

for which the participants

gave a highly positive

feedback.

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Day 03

2. How to face an Interview

The thought provoking

session on Interview facing

was conducted by Ms. Ayona

Hettiarachchi, HR Executive

MAS Intimo, Biyagama, giving

a full insight to students on

how to face an interview.

Undeniably this particular

session helped the

participants immensely to get

through the interviews

confidently at the Career Fair.

Even after the end of the

session many participants

personally went to Ms. Ayona

and received her valuable

advice.

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The Industry-University Linkage

The climax of the whole program was

marked by the Career Fair 2016 which

was held on 29th of April 2016 at the

University premises.

The Industry-University Linkage was

held prior to commencement of the

Career Fair 2016. Prof. Sudantha

Liyanage and Dr. Pahan Goakumbura

presented the student profile, the

structure of the degree program and

the internship requirements in front of

42 Industrial representatives from top

Companies in Sri Lanka including MAS

Holdings, Brandix Group, Astron

Limited, Coca-Cola, Sampath Bank,

Hayleys PLC, Millennium IT, hSenid,

Hirdaramani, Embla Software

Innovations, etc.

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Career Fair Interviews

The Career Fair marked a milestone in the

history of events organized by the Society

of Industrial Scholars with the valuable

participation of top companies in Sri Lanka

including MAS Holdings, Brandix Group,

Astron Limited, Coca-Cola, Hirdaramani

International Exports (Pvt) Ltd, Sampath

Bank, Hayleys PLC, Millennium IT, hSenid

Mobile (Pvt) Ltd, hSenid Business

Solutions Pvt Ltd and Embla Software

Innovations.

Interviews were conducted on the by

these companies, who were given the

opportunity to conduct walk in interviews.

As per the records, 149 well-groomed,

fresh undergraduates & Graduates

equipped with knowledge and experience

gathered from the workshops, faced the

interviews confidently throughout the day.

It was very joyful news for some of them

as they were directly given the letters of

appointment, while some were invited for

follow up interviews.

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Participants: 149

Resource persons: 4

Corporate Representatives: 42

Organizing Committee Members: 21

Summary of Participants

Gender

Academic Year of Study

Participation

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Type of the Degree

Interested Area of Work

Preferred Type of Work

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Our Impact

Within the two weeks period after

the event, 28 of the

undergraduates & the recently

passed out graduates who took

part on the Workshop Series and

the Career Fair 2016 have been

offered the Internships or

permanent jobs.

16 of others have been invited to

follow up interviews, and are now

waiting for pending results.

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Other Corporate Partners

Official Printing Partner

Main Event Sponsor

About Astron

Astron Limited is a fully Sri Lankan owned company which develops, manufactures, imports and markets quality healthcare products. The company was incorporated in 1956 creating a milestone in the pharmaceutical industry by setting up the first pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in the country.

About Brandix

“It's our business to keep inspiring you with solutions”

With a vision "To be THE inspired solution for branded

clothing", Brandix has been the pioneer of the concept of

'total solutions' in Sri Lanka's apparel sector. We employ over

47,000 associates across 42 manufacturing locations in Sri

Lanka, India and Bangladesh.

About MAS Holdings

MAS is a $1.6 bn conglomerate and is positioned as one of

the world’s most recognised Design–to-Delivery Solution

Providers in the realm of Apparel and Textile

Manufacturing. The organisation is headquartered in Sri

Lanka with 48 manufacturing facilities placed across 15

countries, with design locations placed in key style centres

across the globe and with over 79,000 people involved in its

operation. The seamlessly integrated supply chain that is

balanced to perfection with the organisation’s strategically

placed design houses gives MAS the knowledge, the means

and the speed to delivery that is demanded by the industry.

Our Corporate Sponsors

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Compering

Planning

Registrations

Logistics

Refreshments

Technical

Budgeting & Finance

The Organizing Committee

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It was a privilege to participate in the Career Fair and the Series of Workshops, as this whole event program was about giving the participants knowledge about what corporate sector expects from us and how we can develop ourselves to be well equipped and more suited professionals for the corporate world. As a participant I'm very happy that I was able to connect with many resource persons at a personal level. These connections are the most important and this event was the best place to create them.

Additionally thanks to the workshops series, I was able to face the interviews at the Career Fair with a very positive mind and confident. Without any doubt I was able to convince the interviewers of my worth, and I was directly offered an Internship at the end of the very first interview I faced.

Overall the program was highly successful and I'm very appreciative for the learnings I received through. I wish to thank the Organizing Committee for all their countless effort.

Nirmani Gamaethige Undergraudate

B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Sciences (USJP)

A participant

Feedback and comments

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The Organizing Committee

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of Society of Industrial Scholars I would like to express my heartiest gratitude to all resource persons, the sponsors and everyone who made this event a reality. I would like to declare that Workshop Series & Career Fair 2016 was a colossal success and a legendary event in the history of Faculty of Applied Sciences in University of Sri Jayewardenepura. You all; as the valued resource persons in this event could be honored of sharing your valuable knowledge during the workshops since it generated a countless influence on all the participants paving the way to perform well in their future career. For our treasured sponsors I would like to inform you that, you made a great choice in sponsoring our event program which created a huge impact on potential, young professionals. Thank you once again for your unshaken trust on us.

Sheshan Jayaratne Organizing Committee Member (Planning) Society of Industrial Scholars Faculty of Applied Sciences University of Sri Jayewardenepura

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President

It is with great pride that I pen down my gratitude to all our sponsors for giving us their helping hand to make the Workshop Series and Career Fair 2016 a huge success. Without your support this event would have been a dream. Your support always encouraged us. I hope your helping hand formed the basis for a long term partnership. I'm grateful for the trust you kept on us and your trust made us achieve more. As the president of Society of Industrial Scholars in University of Sri Jayewardenepura I'm conveying my sincere thanks for all the sponsors and all companies participated in the Career Fair and everyone including the resource persons, Prof. Sudantha Liyanage, Dr. Pahan Godakumbura, Ms. Hansi Alwis and Organizing Committee members who supported in every means to make our dream a reality.

Sudaraka Liyanage President

Society of Industrial Scholars Faculty of Applied Sciences

University of Sri Jayewardenepura

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