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Bunglon, Jun 7 : A one-day Motivational Seminar-cum-Career Guidance was held at Bunglon High School in Churachandpur District today. About 65 career conscious students have participated in the Seminar.

Delivering the key-note address, Pu Soizalal, ZEO (Retd) emphasis the need for giving career guidance to the students. Saying that, the world has become very competitive, the retired ZEO emphasis the need for inculcating professionalism among the students. He noted that this type of Seminar is the right forum to give guidance to the students for their future career.

Speaking on the theme, ‘Career in Mass Media’, Rinkoo Khumukcham, Joint Editor, ISTV Network encouraged the students to join courses before taking journalism as a profession. Maintaining that, journalism is highly specialized subject, a person choosing this profession should be very sincere and courageous. He asked the students to write essays and compositions to harness their skills if one is interested for the job. Replying to a question, one can study journalism from any streams of subject, be it from Political Science, Histroy, etc., he said.

Ibomcha Sharma, Guest Faculty, Department of Mass Communication, outlined a number of career opportunities to the students while speaking on the topic “Emerging Alternative Careers”. Maintaing that, no profession is too bad nor other profession is too good, each profession has its way of goodness. No profession is inferior to others, he said and encourage the students to excel in their own chosen field. Laying out emerging careers such as Lab technician, nursing, management, journalism, computer science etc before the students, he added that ‘everybody cannot be at the top’. ‘Hard work is the key to success in one’s profession’, he concluded.

The message of today’s Seminar is loud and clear – ‘rural youth and students also have dreams and aspirations’ said Gin Gangte, who moderated the session and led the gathering in voicing ‘yes, we can’.