Social media meet on theme of education and career guidance was held by UNICEF today at Bhopal. Around 50 social media influencers participated. It was interactive meet wherein there was session on career guidance programme being run in Government schools of Madhya Pradesh which was technically supported by UNICEF.

Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF facilitated the meet and he said that our aim is to share information about the efforts in the State on career guidance and how social media influencers can disseminate this information and help to increase its reach.

F A Jami, Education Specialist, UNICEF shared career guidance programme has 500 career cards in 21 domains which is being implemented in the State. He took the participants through the career portal and it was requested that these social media influencers can spread the information of this career portal to all using their power of social media.

He also shared that there is another programme Fundoo based on UReport for skill development, which has 11 micro courses for school children. These could be accessed by children to build skills for career development.

The portals to look for scholarships, were also shared. Rekha Patidar, Teacher with Government School in BHEL shared her positive experiences with career guidance programme and how it is exposing students of her school and giving them overview on careers available in 21 domains. Ms Onkush shared her experience of career portal and also how she works with students in guiding them to learn information on various careers.

She explained about the variety of career options available and how inquisitive are the students. Influencers like Sagar Sharma, Nidhi Shukla Pandey, Neetta Manwani, Arpit Jain, Pinki Tiwari, Jyotu Dubey, Madhu Choudhary, Nidhi Rawatiya shared their experience while they were growing up or as parents of children. One of the suggestion given was to include parental engagement also in the career guidance program, so that parents could also support their children in their understanding of the same. Sujan Sarkar Monitoring officer and representatives of DIIYM (Development Initiative Igniting Young Minds ) were present at the meet.