Brilliance of college students stuns corporate sector

Jumbo Editorial Team

The brilliance and alertness of mind of the students of the Government College of Technology for Women, Karimabad, in Karachi stunned the representatives of the corporate sector.

The students sat in small groups in a long hall and looked engrossed in deep thought. At each table, people from the corporate sector helped them brainstorm a business plan, design a logo and present their companies in less than 50 minutes.

 “These girls are coming up with their business proposals in only minutes which normally takes businessmen days,” Mohammad Khalil, who had flown in from Jordan for the event, said, adding that they were making them ready to enter the market.

The event, an Initiative Camp was organised by Injaz Pakistan, a venture of the Aman Foundation, to teach the students how to develop a business firsthand. Injaz Pakistan holds training workshops regarding business challenges and they target diploma students from middle-income colleges and schools.

“We are preparing these girls for challenges they might face in the future when setting up businesses. We have has also trained boys but we find girls to be more sincere and involved towards the training session,” Mohammad Khalil observed.

 Injaz’s Executive Director, Azra Maqsood said that the training was focusing on three types of curriculum, financial literary, entrepreneurship and work readiness.

“People from the corporate sector are asked to be involved so that they can prepare students who don’t get opportunity to meet such people frequently. Around 10 volunteers from the corporate sector were imparting business training,” she disclosed.

The Karachi Electric Supply Company’s General Manager Media, Ameen-ur-Rehman, was delighted by the excitement and energy of the girls while the Habib Bank’s Sarah Huda felt that the students were brilliant and more talented than many of the business students.

“They don’t have the opportunity or guidance and that’s why we are here to help them polish their innovative ideas,” she stated.