Elixir Foundation (Until now)

We conducted an online survey about career selection and career counseling. 30% of the people were not satisfied with their career and more than 60% were unable to seek any guidance before selecting their career. Most of them were still confused about the right choice of career.

So we felt the need to initiate some career-related guidance for the betterment of youth. We took the initiative of a non-profit organization named Elixir Foundation.

So until now, the working of Elixir is going in progress. We firstly organize our social media setup on Facebook and Instagram also. We started sharing content on them regarding career counseling. We introduce our organization to our social circle through this whole social media campaign. So this was our first step towards our goal.

After that, we devised our plan for how we are going to divide that whole career counseling campaign into short parts. So we divide it into three main parts which are

• Fields selection

• Helping in finding the right passion

• Creating clarity for the right career

And we conducted our first webinar on Passion finding. The basic purpose of that webinar was to create clarity for passion among our youth and especially in those students who are unable to decide their right career and right future. We firstly create clarity regarding what is passion and why we need it. Then we conducted activities to able our audience to find their passion. We received a very supportive response on that whole webinar

After that successful webinar, we conducted our second webinar on right field selection and that webinar is specially organized for college students to help them in the selection of the right field. We were able to bring around 20 students of the college to that webinar also. And that webinar was not that much successful as compare to the previous one but we do our best in that webinar also.

Along with we are continuously keeping our social circle in touch with us through our social media platforms and that is also a very good thing for our progress and in future work.

At the start, our major challenge is the audience that how we get the number of students in these times of COVID. Because we were not able to visit schools, colleges or universities physically. By the grace of Allah, we make it possible by providing awareness through an online webinar. We conducted two webinars and that was our first successful step towards our goal of career counseling.

A second major challenge is to overcome online bullying and hutting during sessions. We overcome this challenge by practice and with help of the mute feature in zoom also arrange activities in our sessions which encourage participation through chat box it helps a lot. We also now try to target those students who are really serious regarding their education and they need someone for counseling regarding his field selection. We will be attending them in separate one on one sessions and clear their queries.

A third major challenge is to provide detailed counseling to Inter and matric students which is not possible in the General 30 minutes webinar For this purpose we divide the students of the same areas of interest into a group of 3 members and try to answer their quires and concerns specifically.

Firstly we targeted the students of Matric and FSc. But after some research, we also realized that we need to expand our campaign to university students also because they also still lacking this type of guidance in some institutes. So in our first webinar, we targeted not only college but university students also. For next we also plan to approach graduated students also and bring some speakers from some professional fields who able to clarify those graduates students regarding the right career selection according to their passion. Through this webinar, we will explain different ways to choose our careers. Because most of the students are not interested in those subjects which they have chosen and they realized this thing at the end of her/his education period. What they can do at that position. They should continue their field or they can change. In which we will give the example of some students as well. So we will try to clarify all these confusions through these activities. And we also now planning for physical sessions also because institutes are going to open now.

We designed our project in such a way that we divide its structure of career into three main things which are

· Passion

· Right field selection

· Right career selection

So we in that purpose we organize our first webinar on passion and its topic was “Passion for life” and our basic purpose in that session was to create clarity regarding what is actually a passion and why we need passion. Then we also organized some activities with our audience and our main focus was to make the audience find their passion if they are still not able to find that. And around 60 to 70 people attend that webinar and everyone show us a very warm and active response on that. That shows the impact of our webinar on them. We were able to create clarity regarding passion in our whole audience and we also take their responses on our webinar and ask them whether they were able to find the passion through this webinar or not. And here is their responses to that:

Along with that we also have our social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram where we are sharing content regarding career counseling. We have following around 200 people on these pages. So we are using these platforms also to create awareness regarding career counseling.

For career selection, we have organized another webinar, especially for college students. The turnout of the audience in that webinar was not that much impressive and we also face some issues in that webinar but we try our best to deliver what we want to share with them. There were around 20 people attend the session. Along with the 1 to 2 people also contact us personally for guidance regarding career selection. One was asking us for fashion designing and second business management and we were able to clear their queries regarding that. So that was a very small step towards our big goal which spread awareness for the right career selection.

Along with all these activities we also collaborate with another organization named Mehak and we organized our second webinar with the collaboration of that organization.

We have run our organization smoothly so far as conducted two online webinars with around 80+ participants. Thus it was a great experience of helping the students and provide them with the best counseling for their future goals. We aim to increase our services and interactions with as many students as to help them. As we are having a lot of problems in our country regarding exams and COVID so it’s difficult to run the organization physically but we are focusing to run more smoothly with more and more interactions with students who need our help in case of career guidance. For this, we will try to reach out to such students from different institutes and from different fields and we will make a group of 3 students and each member will counsel one of such groups. We will arrange one-to-one sessions for the students who are in more need of these sessions. One-to-one sessions are important to students who personally reach to us and need help. We will upload parts of our webinar on our organization’s Facebook page. We will also try to contact some colleges to reach out to their students to introduce them to our organization. Furthermore, now we aim to focus on university students too to offer them career guidance. As all of our circle members belong to different universities it will help us to introduce our organization with our university fellows and ask them to participate in it and also engage more students in it. We will also try to induct some more volunteers also in the future to expand that small initiative to a large scale.