CEN Career Guidance

CEN an acronym for Center For Education Network is a well-known and trusted organization across Rwanda for Career Guidance, Career Counseling & Training, Seminars, Workshops & Events. CEN has conducted programs reaching out directly to more than 5000 plus students across different education institutions in Rwanda.

Career counseling and guidance program

Making a career decision can often be a confusing and stressful time for many students. The choice of career options available to you may be overwhelming or you may not have a clue about the occupations out there. Early career planning with a Career Counselor can help to alleviate some of the stress and confusion around your career decision. Career planning generally involves getting to know who you are, what you want, and how to get there. Keep in mind that career planning is a continuous process that allows you to move from one stage to another stage as your life changes. You may even find yourself going back to look at who you are again after exploring how to get there. Learning to negotiate the career planning process now is essential, considering most people will change careers several times in a lifetime.

Student’s career is a very important part of who they are and what they do. Human beings spend many hours of their days and years of their lives working. Our careers help to identify us, shape us, and provide us with a lifelong opportunity to contribute to society, to our families, to ourselves and others. Satisfying careers give us a sense of duty and purpose. They help us provide and care for our families. They help us meet needs and fulfill our destiny or callings.
There is an increasing need for individual to take charge of developing their own learning and careers for the variety of reasons. There is increasing rate of change of our organizations, knowledge and skills we need to perform our duties. Career ladders are rapidly shrinking or disappearing as reorganizations lead to flatter structures, there is an even increasing need for us to keep with the rapid growth in knowledge and the rate of changing work place environments and involvements in one’s career development as faster as a great commitment to the process than any other directed activities. Career guidance (CG), that results in to career development (CD), has become a primary responsibility of individuals, yet so vital in the society.

The Learning how to Learn (Academic Development)

Every student’s 12-year old has a vision of being a super achiever. For most, this vision is killed by friends and family during the teen years. They are coerced into believing they don’t have the ability or they are pressured into accepting goals that are not suitable for them. For most, the dream is dead, and some rebel by adapting self-destructive attitudes. However through career guidance and counseling programs, these students can be super achiever by helping them discover they career choices when they are still young.

The Learning how to Learn (Academic Development) area includes standards that require students in all grades to have a command of decision-making, problem-solving, goal-setting, critical thinking, logical reasoning, and interpersonal communication skills. Standards in this area guide the student to maximize each learning situation. The student experiences success and enhances educational potential through effort and commitment to producing high-quality work.

Learning how to live (Personal/Social Development)

Learning how to live (Personal/Social Development), despite academic success, there are other factors that are need for the one success in life, like to able to live the society through the following:
• Students will understand and appreciate one self.
• Students will understand and respect others.
• Students will understand and appreciate home and family.
• Students will develop a sense of community.
• Students will make decisions, set goals, and take actions.
• Students will develop safety and survival skills.

The Learning how to Work (Career Development)

The Learning how to Work (Career Development) area includes standards that target a positive attitude toward work. This area emphasizes the development of skills that will enable students in all grade levels to make a successful transition from school to the world of work, and from job to job, across the life career.