Professionals from different fields said at the orientation ceremony of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Islamabad campus that only high grades or academic excellence may not be necessary to earn students a bright career unless they equip themselves with a certain amount of professional expertise to meet the requirements of their chosen fields.
The aim of the ceremony was to tell the students of Management Sciences, Social Sciences, Computer Sciences and Media Sciences on how to run through hoops in order to carve a niche for themselves in their respective professions ahead.
Mobilink Senior Manager EPMO Sajid Lateef told the students that high grades certainly had their own importance but innovative ideas, creativity and thoughtfulness were valued more in the telecom industry when it came to finding jobs in the field.
He said the competitive telecom sector demanded dynamic youngsters who could handle tough challenging tasks through professional expertise.
Endorsing this view, the Nayatel Company Human Resource Manager Taimoor Aziz Bhatti urged the students to start equipping themselves with the maximum technical and practical know-how of whatever career they wanted to opt for so that when they were done with their studies and had landed into the professional field they would be able to deliver efficiently.
He said “bookworms” who were not open to learning anything other than their academic stuff would not be able to survive the stiff professional competition.
The Askari Insurance Head of Human Resource Fawad Asif Rana advised students to find jobs, no matter how petty they were, and carry them along with their studies so that by the time they completed their education they would possess enough professional experience to handle bigger jobs.
He said students should not feel shame in taking up petty jobs as these experiences would lay a strong foundation for them to scale the professional heights.
Aqsa Amir, a young woman entrepreneur said that she started off by setting up a small stall at her university funfair and today runs a successful business of garments.
Aqsa said that with the job markets shrinking, it was time that the youngsters should jump into entrepreneurship to earn livelihood even if they had to start it from the smallest scale.
While speaking on the occassion, the Khushhali Bank President Ghalib Nishter said his organization was doing all it could to promote entrepreneurship by offering small credits to potential businessmen/businesswomen.
He promised to facilitate the students of SZABIST and elsewhere who wished to start their own business in the future.
Asad Hussain, Director SZABIST Islamabad campus while speaking on the occasion said his institute is working in close collaboration with several public and private organizations to so that the potential of talented students is harnessed and their energies best utilized for national development.
