OpenArc organises career guidance seminar

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With over two decades of experience in business and ICT education, OpenArc School of Business and Technology (OSBT), has organised a free career guidance seminar focusing after A/L & O/L students and their parents on 22 January from 2p.m. onwards at the OpenArc Auditorium.

This seminar aims at clarifying and educating school leavers and their parents, on the most common query facing most of them. That is the query of which career path to select and what qualifications to achieve along the way.

This seminar also provides those who wish to follow ICT as a career and also for those, who currently ensue other careers and wish to use ICT as a tool for career development, with the necessary details of study programs which suit their individual requirements. Participants will also receive and opportunity to meet with industry experts and practitioners, and clarify any views they may have regarding the industry. OpenArcgroup Chairman Daya Hettiarachchi (B.SC. ENG, C ENG, MSC (Computer Science), MIE (SL), FCMA (UK), MBCS), an industry practitioner with over 30 years of experience in the fields of Engineering, Accounting and ICT, will be the main speaker at the seminar. OpenArc is currently internationally recognised, as one of the best institutes in the country that offers quality ICT and business education. As a subsidiary of OpenArc Systems Management, the leader in software development for banking and financial institutions in Sri Lanka, OSBT is the only institute in Sri Lanka that offers the lectures for the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degree, offered by the University of Colombo, School of Computing, and provide students with in-house software development internships.

Equipped with Industry practitioners and experts in the field of software development, a highly qualified and experienced panel of lectures, state-of-the-art computer laboratories, and fully air conditioned multimedia lecture rooms, OSBT is geared to prepare students for the ICT industry.

Providing training for government teachers through the Secondary Education Modernisation Project (SEMP), of the Ministry of Education, conducting distant learning classes island-wide through the Ministry of Higher Education’s Distant Education Modernisation Project (DEMP), developing multimedia educational contents for school children, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education’s Secondary Education Modernisation Project (SEMP) and the National Institute of Education (NIE), were some of the many highlighted projects completed by OSBT during the past two decades. OpenArc also developed software solutions for BOC, HNB, DFCC Bank, Merchant Bank, People’s Leasing Company, Seylan Leasing, Singer Finance and many other leading banks and financial institutes in Sri Lanka. More details regarding the OpenArc Career Guidance seminar can be obtained by visiting OpenArc School of Business and Technology, 120, Highlevel Road, Kirulapone, Colombo 6, or by e-mailing [email protected] or visit their official web site: www.openarc.edu.lk