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Youth need to adopt skill based learning for career prospects
Employment or increasing the surface area of employability? The young generation of today may have to engage in multiple work ecosystems. They may not hold on to a single stream of career. Coversity is helping these young children to deep dive into core skill but increasing surface area employability by nudging them to get better…
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Why bother about confidence when you can plunge in to pursue your dreams.
Is confidence something we need right from the start? Does it not grow over time through experiences and learning from mistakes? We often hear that confidence is essential to begin a journey, but is that always true? Let’s explore the journey of a young entrepreneur who discovered her passion through years of trial and error.…
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How youth turns Rejection into Learning?
Rejections happen when things don’t go the way we had hoped for, and they can hurt. But they also teach us to see things differently. Take this story from a teenager at CoVersity… Aparna, started looking for Internships in the field of sustainable construction. Since she had just then started exploring mud construction, she was…
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How an adult can add value to a Teens Journey?
As guides, we aren’t experts in the same fields as our cohorts, and that’s intentional. This is one of the criteria for selecting us by the cohorts. The idea is that we’re not meant to be mentors. Cohorts will seek mentors in their specific fields from outside Aarohi. In the beginning we faced struggles in…
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Career Framework -A Compass, Not a Crystal Ball
There is no step-by-step guide to make a definitive career choice and career path. But, some factors can help as a guiding light. Let’s explore how youth can equip themselves towards a more fulfilling career.
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Why the youth should focus on both permanent and contextual skills
Contextual skills and permanent skills – both are important and do not undermine the importance of each other. Contextual skills can be quantified over a short period. The difference is that permanent skills’ results are compound and can be overpowering.
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Coversity Guides Job Profile/ What’s the Job of a Guide in Coversity?
Each cohort is paired with a guide who are either the parents of other cohort members or a parent from the community. However, they are not an expert in the area that the cohort is focussing on, rather they act as a pillar of support in the cohort’s journey. The guides have to make a…
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Gift one year to your teenager for interest to become career
You know, as parents, we often get caught up in the idea that success means excelling in academics and acing those exams. But sometimes, our kids have different passions pulling at their hearts. let’s talk about our teenagers and their interests, shall we? Take Srijani, for example. She’s 17 and lives in a town in…
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No exam stress, No Career confusion. Only living!
A sure shot way to give teenagers exam stress or career confusion is to put our expectations on them. Teenagers hate being constantly evaluated.Especially evaluated on parent’s expectations from them. You see, teenagers do NOT want to live out of our expectations.They would rather drive themselves on their own aspirations and capabilities. No stress for…
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3 Practical Insights from a teenager to get your first internship
Getting your first internship is the quite the deal in every teenager’s life these days. Whether you are in school, college, homeschooling, unschooling – there is no escape from adults asking you to get good industry exposure in different fields. Well, there is a reason why so many career counsellors and mentors also insist on…