Preparing for the Grassroots ; From Rural Management, Social Work, Resource Mobilisation to Development Studies, You Can Choose From a Variety of Entry Points.
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An eight-hour gruelling selection process that assesses your perseverance, critical thinking ability, capacity to survive an adverse working environment and a knack for innovation among other things this hardly sounds like a typical entry path to the development sector.
After all, social service has traditionally been viewed as a recluse for people who have nowhere else to go or for those who have too much to spare and know little about how to use it. Not any longer.See the full content of this document
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Preparing for the Grassroots ; From Rural Management, Social Work, Resource Mobilisation to Development Studies, You Can Choose From a Variety of Entry Points.
To begin with, young, committed and skilled professionals who are perfectly qualified for the 'mainstream' a la finance, IT and law are instead headed for a BA social work or resource mobilisation programme.
The stereotypes have already changed and so have the expectations and the aspirations. It is evident from the 2000 applications that Shaheen Mistry, founder of Akanksha foundation and the Teach for India project, received for a 100 positions that are awaiting suitors for a two-yea...See the full content of this document
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