Archive for February, 2008
Business Development as a Means of Empowerment
This week, I sought to do business development for Source for Change, our women-run, rural BPO. With managerial and administrative duties taking up a lot of my time, I have not been able to dedicate time to the BPO. Our Business Process Associates (BPAs) have, therefore, started to take on responsibility for business development.
On Friday, […]
Post-Career Day
Last Sunday was Career Day. The number of people who showed up was around 400. Better than last time, which is great considering it is exam time. But it was not the 1000 we were targeting.
The highlights of the career fair were: the aptitude test, the interview and customer service film, the science & technology […]
Moving ahead on curriculum
The Past Week: 01.20.08 – 01.26.08
*As I gear up for the Retail Training course which is to begin on the 4th of February, I have two major goals: curriculum development and marketing. Prior to this, I taught five students for six weeks. My thought process in starting with a small group was to allow those […]
empowering our advisory committee
*One of GDL’s newest initiatives is BEI, Bagar Employment Institute which my team members and I started up as a means to provide industry relevant training to community members. While we see value in charging for our classes, we also don’t want the fees to be a barrier for people to take them. Hence, we’ve […]
Read More..>>Career Day
Tomorrow is career day. We are organizing the career day primarily as an advertising mechanism, but it has also proven to be a great way to interact with the community and build awareness regarding the career building process.
This week has been pretty stressful because I had expected to get certain resources more easily than we […]
Business Development for Source for Change
Business Development for Source for Change continues to be a challenge. Initially, I had expected marketing for our all-women run rural BPO to be much easier than actually training women who had no previous computer experience. I have unfortunately found the opposite to be true. The women are typing at 40 words per minute, have […]
Read More..>>BDWI – Up and running with a few leaks
Things did not go exactly as planned last week. Due to some unforeseen circumstances (mechanical malfunctions, hiring of employees, etc.), the BDWI distribution center launched on Friday instead of Monday. The launch itself revealed leaks in our system – literally speaking. Parts of the tank system have sprung small leaks and we are now facing […]
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