Career Day

Secondary school students showed up on campus on Saturday, January 5, to learn about various careers. Over 40 professionals held talks and presentations including physicians, journalists, bankers, graphic designers, engineers, nutritionists, actors, educators and advertisers.

“When you are in the secondary school, you have one foot in school and one in college,” said Paula Mufarrij, Director of the Secondary school. “We are creating this link between the school years and the future. A career day helps out students discover this future.”

Students had previously signed up to attend four sessions throughout the four-hour event. This is the second Career Guidance Day organized by the newly formed Parents Committee within the last two years. limit’” said Lina Assaf, President of the Parents Committee. “We are trying to show them that they can believe in and achieve whatever they dream of, no matter what the difficulties are.”

A yearly career day will now be held at the Secondary school. Future projects include arranging for students to shadow professionals at work to discover for themselves the pros and cons of a particular job.