The future is yours to see with our 'Career Discovery Clinic'

Que sera sera,

Whatever will be, will be, 

The future's not ours to see, 

Que sera sera.

Pretty much a timeless classic that we all know by heart. But sorry, Doris Day, here at KDU UC, we beg to differ. 

With a little bit of planning, a dash of passion, a sprinkle of enthusiasm and hard work, the future is DEFINITELY ours to see. Want to know how? Well, you should definitely make the time and head on over to our Damansara Jaya Campus this 20th or 26th January for our CAREER DISCOVERY CLINIC. 

Workshop "How to talk to your kids about money & career”

You and your children are cordially invited to the “How to talk to your kids about money & career” event this Saturday at KDU Section 13 Campus. This event is specially for parents and youths age 16 – 19. Admission is FREE!

Details as follows :
Date: 15 January 2011 (Saturday)
Time : 10am – 12pm
Venue : LH2, KDU Section 13 Campus, 76 Jalan University, Petaling Jaya
Parking : Free parking at visitor parking lots and around campus

The facilitator is Ms Carol Yip, founder and CEO of Abacus for Money and The Abacus Academy. She is a certified financial coach, consultant, advisor and trainer, specialised in coaching and educating individuals of all ages and all walks of life to be Smart Money-Users.

Ms Carol will cover the areas of:

• The importance of life and career planning at a young age;
• How life stages and career impact personal financial planning;
• The importance of money in achieving career and life dreams, aspirations and goals;
• Learning money management and financial planning skills;
• The importance of identifying, applying and achieving personal financial goals;
• The effect of behavioural psychology on spending vs saving; and
• Savings, smart spending, wise investing and good debt management.

To register, please call Nisha at (03) 7953-6979 or email knishalini@kdu.edu.my by Jan 13.

Thank you.

Free Career Discovery Clinic

"Be Our Guest" Wow Classroom Experience - Day 3

written by: Ann Teoh

Dr Todd Nelson

Which Civil Rights Should We Keep?

If it had not been for the first amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees all US citizens the right to assemble and speak freely, Martin Luther King Jr, would not have been able to deliver his famous “I have a dream” speech when he organised a massive march in Washington in 1963.

Using video and music, the guests were introduced to America’s Constitutional Bill of Rights by Dr. Todd Nelson, Head of the School of Business and Social Sciences , on Day 3 of the “Be Our Guest” Wow Classroom Experience.

Click on the following links to You Tube and you can listen to the rap and hip hop songs on Bill of Rights.

A More-than-Wow Classroom Experience - Day 2

written by: Ann Teoh

Guests at the Classroom Experience were just full of bubbling energy! If Day 1 was a hub of activity, Day 2 was swell. There was no stopping them even as the day drew to an end with Alwyn Lau’s team building session.

WOW CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE!

written by: Ann Teoh

If there were tears at kindergartens and primary schools as it was the first day of school in January 2011, it was certainly a different scenario at KDU University College. And rightly so! Fresh-faced, eager-looking teenagers filled with friendly smiles, thronged the hallways and Lecture Hall E at their first day in KDU University College.

They were joined by many school leavers who had just completed their SPM exams and who were in a dilemma trying to decide the most suitable programme to study. They have to take a host of factors into consideration: cost, transport, lecturers’ experience, the reputation of the university college, the transferability of credits, and the career pathways.

A 3-day series of "Be Our Guest" WOW classroom experiences were hosted for them to help them make that crucial decision. For Day One, if they were unsure what career direction to head for, Ms Nicole Noh (Counsellor) did certainly set them on course with her talk on Career Profiling . Using the RIASEC test, the students soon discovered their personalities and what they enjoy doing most.

Dividing them into their personality-groups, they were given some materials to create a transport model. True to their personality profiles, each group either artistically created a unique mode of transportation or systematically and methodically modelled one, or as the one and only one Investigator-type personality soon discovered, he could analyse how he could plan and design one single-handedly. Those who belong to the Social type personality, would chat their ways to completing their project (or almost completing), and the Entrepreneurial type would be persuading each other that his idea is the best.