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Monthly News Bulletin of DB Tech Society
UPDATE Completes First Year
Guest Lecture on Marketing Trends at DB Tech (Jhansi)
The monthly news bulletin ‘UPDATE’ completes one full year! It definitely has been an exciting year for all of us in the team. For us, it is the journey that matters. We kept experimenting with new ideas to publicize best practices, program related events, achievements, celebrations, training programs, etc. We make sure that a copy of UPDATE must reach either in the form of hard copy or e-newsletter to our stakeholders so that they will be well informed about the programs executed by Don Bosco Tech Society. We thank each one of you for all the love and support. It is only that support, which keeps us going.
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A Guest Lecture was organized at DB Tech (Jhansi) on February 11, 2014. Mr. Rehan Khan (HR Manager, PRO-MART & Liability Traders) was invited to deliver the lecture on marketing trends in modern India. Students from all domains, staff members and State Coordinator attended the lecture. At first, he gave introduction about the PROMART followed by some necessary tips about selling concepts. He asked the students that before joining any company, they must have basic knowledge about the company, which is easily available on company's website. Students must prepare their mind for selling the product before they start doing it; and they must have complete information about the product. Not just that they should also know the quality of the brand, its competitors in the market and price of the product. All these inputs makes the sales person easy to sell the products to the customer. Good communication skills are must for the students taking training in the Marketing domain. At last, State Coordinator addressed the students asking them to attend classes regularly to get more of such benefits from the training. He said, "The training at DB Tech will help them learn skill that will surely bring success in their life. Beside skills, training programme covers soft skills and personality development as well. The
students need to be punctual and disciplined.” Around 80 students attended the lecture to get the information on market trends that will make it easy for them to get job. One of students shared, “The lecture helped me to prepare for an interview and to face interview challenges.”
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DB Tech skill training centre located at Chaibasa (Jharkhand) has successfully completed three batches of livelihood training programs. Recently the fourth batch of Hospitality domain comprising of 21 trainees visited ‘The Boulevard Hotel’ located in Jamshedpur on February 8, 2014. It is one of the oldest hotels, which was established in the year 1940. Accompanied with Fr. Ranjeet Kindo (Center In-charge, DB Tech, Chaibasa) and Hospitality trainer, 21 trainees started the journey early morning to cover the distance of approximately 65 km to reach the hotel. Delegates from Jharkhand Hotel Association (JHA) and other members were present to welcome the group. After the introduction session, trainees were divided into three groups with six trainees in each group. Headed by Mr. J. Sahu, Pavitra and Mr. Mani Bhushan (FO Manager, JHA), students visited each section of the hotel such as front office, housekeeping, restaurant, bakery and kitchen department, etc. The visit helped the students discover the function of front office such as reservation, registration, assigning room, etc. In the housekeeping department, they got to know about bed making, floor procedure, types of room, restaurant service, and banquet process. Next the trainees visited Xavier School of Management (XLRI) located in Jamshedpur. It is a leading private
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Batch Inauguration at DB Tech (Perambur , Tamil Nadu)
Guest Lecture on HIV/AIDS at DB Tech (Madurai, Tamil Nadu)
A guest lecture on HIV/AIDS was organized at DB Tech (Madurai) on February 7, 2014. The trainees from all domains including Retail Sales, Hospitality, BPO and Electrical attended the program along with the trainers. The lecture was organized with the aim to enhance
students’ knowledge and create awareness about HIV/AIDS for its prevention. Dr. Pon Padmanaban, working with AIDS patients for the last three years at Tirunelveli was invited as the resource person for the lecture. Before starting the session, Rev. Fr. Pinto (Rector & Correspondent, DBITI, Madurai) introduced the resource person to the students and urged them to make positive use of the session. Dr. Pon Padmanaban started the session quite interactively asking the students about the sources through which one can get affected by HIV/AIDS. Some of the trainees shared some valuable insights that helped the lecturer to initiate the session. Discussing with the students, he stated that HIV does not get transferred through hugging, touching, wearing the clothes of HIV patients or even through sharing food with them. Unprotected sexual relationship with an HIV infected person, using unsterilized syringes and scissors, blood transfusion from an infected donor are some of the real causes of HIV/AIDS. In case the mother is HIV positive, the child can also get affected by this deadly disease. Adding to the discussion, he advised the students to not to discriminate HIV affected people, don’t treat them as untouchable. They are normal human beings, thus behave like one. Rather one should show sympathy and affection and extra care towards them. The students were even shown documentary films and movies on AIDS in order to give clarifications about the disease and better understanding.
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Kajipeta Mamatha, daughter of Mr. Pandu, is a Hotel Management student of DB Tech located at Gagillapuram. I belong to Narasapuram, which is a small town in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. The most distressing part of my life is my father has two wives; and he looks after only the second family leaving me and my elder brother to be a burden on my mother. My mother has been struggling quite hard to not only feed us but also to educate us. I was studying at Don Bosco Human Resource Development Centre located at Gagillapuram (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh). I discovered about BASE programme, when DB Tech representatives visited our college to inform us about their three months training programme that provides placement assistance at the end of the training. Knowing about this training programme, I was in high spirit to enrol the training program. The moment I reached at home, I took permission from my mother and brother to join the training. It was then I visited DB Tech (Gagillapuram) to enroll myself in the Hospitality domain. At first, I used to be really scared of speaking English and my English was very poor. I didn’t even knew how to read, write and speak in English. I didn’t even had any knowledge of computer. But during the training at DB Tech, all my fears were vanished; and now I am a confident lady, who cannot only speak English but can also use computer to take the order of the customer coming at Coffee Day Express. Yes, this is where I got the placement (Coffee Day Express) after completing the three months training in Hospitality. DB Tech provided me an opportunity for lifetime. In three months of learning process, there were several things to learn about including life skills and basics of computer. I sincerely thank all my facilitators for teaching me well and providing an excellent job that I have placed in. Today I am earning a salary of Rs. 6000 per month and supporting my family. My mother is really happy with this great achievement. Don Bosco Tech is helping many like me who are unemployed and living in extreme poverty. I thank DB Tech from the bottom of my heart.
business school for management education based in Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) where they met some of our candidates already working there. Towards the end, the students were of the view that such visits help them understand deeply. They got the chance to learn a lot at Hotel and XLRI.
Inauguration of Retail Marketing batch of Quest Alliance project and BPO batch of Accenture project were organized at Don Bosco Vazhikaatti (Perambur) on January 24, 2014. The program started with a prayer song sung by BPO trainee. Fr. Joseph Leo sdb (Centre Head, DB Tech, Perambur) welcomed the gathering and briefed them about the centre. In his address, he spoke about Don Bosco and the services of Don Bosco institutions in the field of education and charity for the development of youth. He advised the trainees to innovate and implement new ideas. He also expressed that the trainees should become successful entrepreneurs in the respective domains in which they are being trained. It was followed by the cultural events performed by Retail and BPO trainees. A short power point presentation about DB Tech and its Skilling mission was also shown to enable the trainees to understand the mission, vision and the activities for the social and personal growth of deserving youth . The program concluded with a vote happy note from the trainees that they would bring of thanks by Mr. Raja (State Coordinator, DB Tech, more candidates to take part in DB Tech’s mission Tamil Nadu). He complimented Fr. Joseph Leo for his ‘Skilling India`. support and guidance. The function ended with a
Inauguration and Convocation of BASE batches at DB Tech (BREADS, Bangalore)
DB Tech (BREADS, Bangalore) organized the convocation of third batch and also inauguration of fourth batch of Accenture project. Students and parents assembled at the function realized the potential of Hospitality sector being in the midst of eminent guests like Ms. Andrea Wilmes (Don Bosco Mondo, Germany), Rev. Fr. Mondoth Ittira (Rector, Provincial House, Bangalore), Ms. Felicita Shanthy (HR Manager, Vivanta), Ms. Tejaswini (Business Intermediary Team, Accenture), Rev. Fr. Joy Nedumparambil (Executive Director, BREADS, Bangalore) and Mr. Vincent Fernades (State Coordinator, DB Tech, Karnataka). Fr. Joy Nedumparambil welcomed all the guests and introduced the audience to the day’s proceedings. Fourth batch of BASE was inaugurated by the ceremonial lighting of the lamp. Then, Fr. Mondoth Ittira spoke about the significance of changing one’s own attitude towards the betterment of the future. He was followed by the guest of honour, Ms. Andrea Wilmes, who reiterated that the attitude of helping others can take one a long way towards personal growth. Ms. Felicita Shanthy and Ms. Tejaswini complemented Ms. Andrea’s statements, encouraging the students to make best use of this opportunity at hand.
Guest Lecture at DB Tech (Harmutty, Assam) On the February 11, 2014, a guest lecture was conducted for the students undertaking trainng in ISMO at DB Tech (Harmutty, Assam). To serve purpose well, Mr. Faunal who is a Marketing Officer in one of the well-known NGOs was invited to deliver the lecture. The session focused on topics such as motivation, goal setting and selfemployment. The speaker stressed much on striving to go forward in life since many of them belong to poor family and have been struggling hard to make a living. The students were motivated to stick to their motive, to learn and not to give up. He asked students to have a goal in life and let nothing disturb your mind saying life without any aim will lead us to nowhere so one should have a proper goal in life to go on. He also shared some marketing tips saying, “Marketing is competitive and it is hard to get a chance to sell the product unless we have motivation and a goal to make the target achieved”. On self employment, he brought forward the difficulties one faces in getting a job and encouraged them saying, “ Organizations like DB Tech provides best opportunity to learn and earn by offering wide range of vocational courses”. The students participated actively in the lecture and were of the view that they want more of this type of sessions to have a successful career ahead. At the end, Mr Faunal gave his best wishes to all the students for the training and placement.
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