Career Guidance Unit

University of Colombo, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka

Freshers Awareness Programme

New comers to Faculties of Management & Finance and Arts were given a Career Awareness Seminars on 2 October 2003 and 12 November 2003 respectively. The importance of developing transferable skills such as intellectual skills, organisational skills, communication skills and inter-personal skills are highlighted. The change of attitudes of students towards the cooperate sector was also stressed.

New comers to the Faculty of Science were addressed by the Director on 23 June 2004 at the King George Hall, Faculty of Science.

** Students were given a demonstration about the web page. Students can directly access to the important websites through the links given in the main page to learn time management skills, presentation skills, CV writing skills, etc. Please visit the website for more links.

Self learning may be more effective than spoon feeding