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The mentors at the Center provide students with career guidance by identifying each student’s individual Values, Interests, Personality, and Skills (VIPS).
The program helps students get on the career track they want to pursue by offering them one to one Career interview sessions and advise them on CV writing, interview techniques, mock interviews, job search strategies, etc.
As students progress deeper into their career plan, mentors will help them explore their career interests, goals and values, as well as offer them methods to overcome obstacles in their future careers.

The role of the Training component is to explore, design, develop and ensure the delivery of high quality training workshops, programs and seminars, thereby providing students with the training aids needed to enhance their career prospects and succeed in their future careers. Below is a list of some of the workshops conducted in 2019 - 2020.

Team Building and Cohesion

This workshop enhances students' ability to work in a group and develop their communication and negotiation skills.

Self-Awareness

This workshop aims to equip students with the skills needed to take on challenges with assurance, manage change and complexity with conviction, and enhance their leadership skills.

Ethics and Trust

This workshop assists students in gaining a deeper understanding of themselves and teaches them how to identify their personal values and contribute to leadership.

Linkedin

The Career Center hosted LinkedIn's team to teach students and graduates how to rock their linkedin profile and advance their career.

Critical Thinking

This workshop helps students in identifying their skills and in applying logical and creative approaches to solving problems and making decisions.

CV Writing and Interviewing Skills

This workshop helps students in improving their interpersonal skills and in building their resume in a professional way, and teaches them how to standout during an interview.

Effective Communication Skills

This workshop aims to equip students to take on challenges with assurance, manage change and complexity with conviction, and enhance their leadership authority.

Stress Management

This workshop teaches students techniques related to managing stress in the context of university studies and academic life.

Time Management Skills

This workshop aims to help students manage their time effectively and schedule tasks according to their priorities, which in return will reflect positively on their daily academic and professional performance.

Internships are an essential component in the applied student learning process as it promotes their readiness for future career positions. It also provides students the opportunity to apply the skills they learned in their respective majors. The Career Center’s role is to secure opportunities and provide several options for our students to ensure they get appropriate high-end training that will prepare them for their future career.

During their academic internships, students are assigned an Academic Advisor at the university to follow up with their progress. Students are evaluated by the organization where the 90 hours of internship was completed at the end of the placement. Confidential evaluation/feedback forms for each individual student has to be completed by his/her supervisor at the company in which the internship was completed. Each student will be evaluated based on his/her performance throughout the period of the internship

The Placement section at Tawteen Career Center is responsible for liaising with external organizations and employers to obtain relevant career information such as job opportunities and recruitment policies and procedures. A Business Development team is in charge of widening the scope of career related opportunities for students and Alumni.

This subdivision of the Center also manages and coordinates the graduate and undergraduate placement activities in which students are shortlisted to job openings that are in line with their career aspirations.

In addition, the Business Development team monitors Kuwait’s employment and labor market trends to promote and place students in the job market and thus act as the key bridge between students and employers by organizing Field Trips & Information Sessions (Guest Lectures).

FIELD TRIPS
The Career Center organizes field trips to companies from different sectors and industries that are relevant to students’ majors. Through real-life connections and hands-on experience of the lessons they are studying, students are more likely to understand the subject better. Students will experience a more holistic, integrated picture of the information taught in the classroom.

INFORMATION SESSIONS (Guest Lectures)
Information sessions are conducted by professional guests who visit the campus to share their experience with the students. This will help the students widen their perspective of a certain field and gain insights about the corporate world.