SESSION 01 - CVs that land you interviews, interviews that land you jobs

• Understanding your purpose by setting your priorities and predicting your future
for success
• Flexibility and choosing different careers from the area of specialization
• Having faith in yourself and your strengths
• Hidden Jobs such as internal jobs, direct placement from universities, employees
referrals and closed jobs are more important source of hiring than jobs posted on
portals Noman Ahmed Abbasi
• Importance of Networking with your targeted organizations Talent Acquisition Lead

• Resume Writing : Identify top required skills, Brand yourself and how to manage Noman is a GEM and PitsTop UK
certified trainer. He is working as Lead
the application tracking system Talent Acquisition and People Services
in Ufone in the Human Resources
• Interview Preparation: Mindfulness (focus on key words), Become familiar Department.

(Prepare, try to connect and identify common values) STAR (situation, task,
action, result)
 SESSION 02 – Straight Out of Campus – All You Need to Know

• Acclimatizing to a New Environment – 3 stages of life (why stage, why not stage and because phase).
What are your key deliverables? Understand your success measurement criteria Ask a lot of questions
• Self-transition phase – 4 stages (unconsciously incompetent stage, consciously incompetent stage,
consciously competent stage and unconscious competence)
• Resilient Mindset – coping with challenges, learning from adversities, honing your skills and abilities,
enhancing your performance. Mistakes occur unconsciously. Admit that you messed up and make sure
you learn from the mess up and never repeat it again. Present a solution
• Developing an edge – “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do what you do” – Simon Sana Hassan
Manager Internal Comms. & EB
Sinek. 6 pillars that help develop an edge:
• Confidence, Adaptability, Positivity, Perspective, Mastery, Stamina Sana is a Corporate Communications
• Understanding the culture – shared assumptions, beliefs, values, processes, code of conduct. Dress professional with experience of working
in the Telecom, Beverages and
code. Differences between Pakistani work culture and work culture abroad. Packaging sectors. She is also a GEM
Learning Pvt. Ltd certified Silver Shadow
• Displaying Professionalism – Be authentic. Be yourself. The trick is to show parts of your personality Trainer.
at the appropriate time. Punctuality. Setting the right expectations.
• Employability in a Post COVID-19 World – Aim to make yourself a better candidate in the present
climate and an even better candidate for when the job market picks up again!
• LinkedIn Profile Creation Basics – Customize your headline, introduce yourself in the summary
(professional headline and about section), choose a professional profile photo, use targeted keywords
in the work experience section, and customize your public profile URL.
 SESSION 03 – Work Ethics 101

• Approach (Positive / Negative) : Loser always go for Blame, Shame & Justify their failures, A winner takes
responsibility for his/her actions and reaction to their experiences, take the initiative to respond positively
and improve the situation.
• Self-Sabotaging behavior: It is not about the circumstances or situation which makes you negative, it is your
inability to respond positively to that situation. Tough situations gives you energy (in shape of stress),
control it and utilize it as a power for your success, else it will control you and will result in depression,
anxiety and self-sabotaging behavior.
• Motivators/ De-motivators: When some say Impossible take it as I am possible. Avoid sitting with persons
having chronical complaining attitude and try to sit among scholars, teachers and persons with knowledge
and wisdom to learn more from life. Jawad Hussain Awan
Sr. CS Trainer QMS&T
• Endless Learning : Knowledge & learning does not end with college or University. Keep learning till end, in
form of courses, degrees, technical skills, diplomas etc. Jawad brings more than 13 years of
experience as a corporate trainer in
• Digital Work Ethics : Health / Dress like you want to be addressed / dedicated work area for psychological the Telecom Industry, Retail, Real
impact / Exercise / Estate and Education sectors. He is
also a Certified Organizational
• Work Life Balance : Both, Sense of Achievement & Sense of Enjoyment, at the end of the day Learning Expert (OLE) and a GEM
• Credibility (Under Promise & Over Deliver) : Stop the habit of giving false timelines to anyone, in Learning Pvt. Ltd certified Silver
Shadow Trainer.
professional as well as in personal life. Always try to under promise and over deliver
• Response & Reaction: Wisdom is the key to respond well on situations, instead of reacting awkwardly.
• Behavior Breeds Behavior: When you are positive and constructive, it should be no surprise that people
around you will open up and respond accordingly. When you are impatient and negative, stress, criticism
and aggressiveness will become the norm.
 SESSION 04 – MS Excel Essentials

• Use Excel for what it’s best at: Analysis and Reporting
• Don’t treat Excel as a database tool, especially true for datasets greater than 300-400K
rows.
• Make use of the new ETL functionality, to easily access, connect to and transform larger
datasets of tens of millions of rows.
• Excel’s formulas are a form of art, their capability and power is limited by your
imagination, especially the Array Formulas.
• Use XLOOKUP to pull data from other datasets, mash together two datasets, create basic Abdul Salam
interactive query reports like we saw with the IMDB dataset, etc. It may be the most Manager Reporting

pervasively used Excel formula you will ever come across. Abdul Salam has been associated
with Ufone for the past four years
• Pivot table is a near perfect combo of “simple but extremely powerful” feature of Excel. and has worked at PwC for four
years. He has provided business
Excel’s ETL functionality and PowerPivot has transformed it into a BI Tool, even the now- consulting, auditing and other
very-popular ‘Power BI’ by Microsoft is based on these two. assurance services to a diverse set
of clientele from telecom, banking,
• Use drop-down menus for greater interactivity and Excel table feature for improved microfinance, government and
development sectors including
handling and readability of your formulas. UNDP, USAID and ECP. Excel has
been his key companion and his
daily driver. He is a certified trainer
from GEM International Singapore.
 SESSION 05 – Challenges & Opportunities for Fresh Graduates

• Convert your challenges into opportunities

• Know your industry
• Know your job role
• Know your organizational culture
• Know the skills required from you
• The GGESBBRR Model:
Get Relevant Experience
Muhammad Ehtisham Khan
Gather relevant and maximum information Manager Talent Management
Explore your own interests Muhammad Ehtisham is a certified
trainer from GEM International
Sharpen your negotiation skills and practice Singapore, Navitus Pakistan and a
certified Value Trainer from Funverks
Be ready and flexible to move (Pakistan). He is associated with
Be confident on your capabilities Ufone as Manager Talent
Management. Ehtisham is an IT
Rehearse to improve interview skills Graduate and holds multiple
certifications and trainings under his
Respect belt. He has over 14 years of
professional experience in the field of
Learning, Performance and Talent
Development. Moreover, he has
worked for 3 out of 4 current telecom
companies in Pakistan and has
trained more than 7000 people in
Mobilink, Zong & Ufone.
 SESSION 06 – MS Power Point Essentials

• Idea Formulation – formulating a coherent idea, delivering the message, taking care of aesthetics and making the
content presentable
• Expectations of the audience/management – avoiding lengthy presentations, being prepared for abrupt Q&A,
knowing the presentation’s agenda inside out and sticking to it, checking spellings and grammatical errors,
investing proper time in research and avoiding text-heavy slides.
• Using Visuals – graphics, images, charts, using visuals that match the theme and fit the context.
• Death by PowerPoint
• PowerPoint Playground
 DUPLICATION:  ALIGN OBJECTS:
Keyboard Shortcut: Select Object(s) Syed Hassan Sagheer
Ctrl + C (copy), Ctrl + V (paste) FAST Home Tab > Arrange > Align Head of BI and IT PMO (Transworld)
Ctrl + D (for objects and slides) FASTER
Hassan has a hands-on experience
Keyboard + Mouse Shortcut:  GROUP OBJECTS: at creating and delivering powerful
Ctrl + click & drag FASTEST Group: Ctrl + G PowerPoint presentations as well as
Ungroup: Ctrl + Shift + G creating visually appealing data
 WORKING WITH SLIDES: analytics/dashboards in Power BI.
Keyboard Shortcut: Hassan is currently heading the
Ctrl + C (copy), Ctrl + V (paste)  PAINTER/FORMATTER Business Intelligence and IT PMO
function at Transworld.
Ctrl + D (for objects and slides) Click the object you want to copy the formatting FROM
Click, drag & drop for rearrangement Click Format Painter
 ARRANGING OBJECTS: Click the object you want to copy the formatting TO
Select Object(s) Format Painter copies font size, font type, coloring and
Home Tab > Arrange borders
 SESSION 06 - MS Power Point Essentials
 REPEATING TASKS
Keyboard Shortcut: F4
Repeats the last task performed
 CUSTOM SHAPES
Select objects (minimum 2)
Shape Format Tab > Merge Shapes
Union: Adds the overlapping areas of two shapes
into 1 shape
Combine: Adds the non-overlapping areas into 1
shape
Intersect: Subtracts the underlying object
Subtract: Subtracts the overlying object
 MAKE YOUR OWN ICONS
By using existing shapes available within the tool
 TRANSITIONS
Select slide> Transition Tab
 ANIMATIONS
Select slide> Animation Tab
 WORKING WITH TABLES
Insert Tab > Table
Click on the table >Table Design Tab
Apply different shading to rows or select
pre-defined colors
Apply borders using the pen tool in Table
Design Tab Syed Hassan Sagheer
Head of BI and IT PMO (Transworld)
Hassan has a hands-on experience
Useful Resources: at creating and delivering powerful
PowerPoint presentations as well as
• Company’s Marketing Team – branding creating visually appealing data
guidelines analytics/dashboards in Power BI.
• The Noun Project – icons Hassan is currently heading the
Business Intelligence and IT PMO
• Adobe Color – color palettes function at Transworld.
• Pinterest – templates/ideas/inspiration
• Harvard Business Review - articles
• Freepik – icons/images
 SESSION 07 – Career Path Management

• Popular myths about setting career goals debated in the backdrop of two assumptions; a) passion being a
central theme, career roadmaps should follow careful planning to reach the desired goal overcoming, at all
costs, any circumstances that might derail the journey b) career journey is full of iterative steps that are
impacted by circumstances of a significant magnitude, trial and error is inherent
• Self-Awareness is at the heart of career journeys – for your relationships and the perception you carry.
Because for people around you perception is reality and not what you think about yourself. Conscious
journal writing and periodic reflection of the journal entries is a powerful self-awareness strategy. Seeking
out mentors, coaches and trusting sounding boards for feedback make an all round self-awareness toolkit.
• Like any other journey, you have to pack the essential items for your career. Saving up your decision making
Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi
energy for the most significant decisions [consequential and irreversible] and by the same association GM Human Resources
solving the right problems are two effective approaches. Building the habits, and automating decisions that
are inconsequential and reversible are key enablers. Syed Zulfiqar Ali Zaidi is General
Manager Human Resources at
• Work, study and spending time leisure activities doesn’t have to be boxed on the basis of your age. All three Ufone. He has over two decades of
are crucial for a wholesome life experience. experience spanning across mainly
Telecom sector with stints in the
• Book recommendations banking, airline and manufacturing
o The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg sectors. Mr. Zulfiqar has been
helping people grow and achieve
o Pivot by Jenny Blake their potential for more than a decade
o What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles as a coach, mentor and teacher.
o Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
o The three boxes of life by Richard Nelson Bolles
o Marshal Goldsmith – “Triggers” and “What got you here, won’t get you there”