Report on Career Guidance Talk by Mr. Edwin Jose

A webinar was organized by the department of Physics and Electronics as a part of career guidance initiative involving alumni and industry experts on Thursday 28 July 2022 using WebEx platform.

The resource person was, Mr. Edwin Jose, an alumnus of the department (B.Sc. PME student 2015 – 18 batch) and currently working as a Chief Technological Officer in an Edtech company hailabs.ai.

Dr. Mukund N Naragund, event coordinator, introduced the concept of bringing back the alumni to the campus through the tech-talks and career guidance sessions to the participants. Ms. Antika Burman of 5  CME introduced the resource person and also presented a welcome speech. Dr. Paul K T, Head of the  department shared his thoughts about the event and recalled his association with Mr. Edwin Jose. Prof.  Benny Sebastian also shared his experience with Mr. Edwin as a mentor for student council activities. 

Mr. Edwin Jose presented a talk – The road not taken: career Journey in a very enthusiastic way sharing his experience as a student at CHRIST. He explained several useful tips on how to improve the self confidence and interpersonal skills by participating in various cocurricular and extra-curricular activities. He elaborated on how to go ahead with the career plan leading either into job or into research by quoting his own efforts and achievements. He interacted with the students during the session. It was a very informative and motivating talk for the current batch of students. The participants shared their happiness and appreciation for the talk as well as for the initiative from the department through the feedback form shared with them by the department immediately after the webinar.

Ms. Sowjanya of 5 PME proposed vote of thanks.

Dean, School of Sciences, Dr. George Thomas, Head, Department of Physics and Electronics, Dr. Paul K T, Prof. Benny Sebastian, all the faculty members of the department and about 130 students participated in the webinar. The department wishes to thank the management for providing the opportunity for  conducting the webinar.