Human Resources Management Consultant and Practitioner
Cambodia Requests Mentors for Teen Career Development
By Ms. Bory You
Mrs. Bory YOU, Founder of Talent Excellence Development Partners Co. Ltd, a Career Coach, is conducting a Coaching workshop under the topic “Build Self-Confidence for Career Goal Setting for Teenagers.” We aimed to gather teenagers ages from 12-18 years old. The 1st batch was successfully completed with about 12 participants, they are communicating in English.
The goal of this training course is to help teenagers that are currently studying in middle school and high school to decide on their education paths based on their passions, interests and strengths. In Cambodia high school education system, students are given the choice to choose between social study and science study right after they entered grade 9. As a result, many students are having trouble choosing between the two studies simply because they have no idea which one suit them best. This is why, on 25th June 2023, 8am-5pm a coaching workshop in topic “Build Self-Confidence for Career Goal Setting for Teenagers” was launched that allows student to learn and discover themselves and choose the right study paths that will shape and align with their future job/career.
In order to ensure their momentum, we also schedule monthly mentoring sessions conducted online and we have 3 volunteer local mentors to support them on a weekend basis as they need to study on the weekend. These 3 national mentors are career coaching practitioners that have participated in this training course. However, to support students more, we’re also looking for international mentors who are passionate and about helping the next generation of youth choose the right job/career for their future.
If you’re interested and would like to further look into this training course, please kindly contact us via our email that we attached above.
July 2023 Cambodia Report (APCDA)
Completed Activities
GGAC organized workshop on program “Career Goal and Guidance”, in partnership with J Trust Royal Bank and CCF under the topic is “Self-awareness and Goal Setting” to Ranger members from Cambodia Children’s Fund (CCF) with total number of 49 participants.
The purposes of this training:
- Participants understand their strengths and weaknesses.
- Solutions to minimize their own weaknesses.
- Understand their passion and what they want.
- Understand the specific goal setting in order to achieve their desirable outcome.
Date: July 02, 2023
Time: 7:30 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Kampus Building
Reference: Girl Guides Association of Cambodia (GGAC)
Guest speaker: Local APCDA member (Mrs. You Bory)
The local APCDA member, Mrs. YOU Bory, has fully participated in a workshop called “Career Goal and Guidance” as a guest speaker under the topic “Self-awareness and Goal Setting” launched by GGAC on July 02, 2023.
| Duration | Descriptions | Responsible Person |
| 7:30 am | The arrival of the Ranger Members of CCF and Participants | |
| 8:00 – 8:05 am | Respect the national anthem | Host |
| 8:00 – 8:10 am | Present the agenda of the training | Host |
| 8:10 – 8:15 am | Opening speech | Chair of the Program Mrs. Dit Sreynet |
| 8:15 – 9:15 am | Present about the topic of the training | Mrs. You Bory |
| 9:15 – 9:45 am | Demonstration of practical experience | Mrs. Pen Bopha |
| 9:45 – 10:00 am | Snack Break | Host |
| 10:00 – 10:30 am | Panelist | Ms. Pil Dalen |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Introduction to Mentor and Mentee | Ms. Pil Dalen |
| 10:45 – 11:15 am | Group discussion | Mrs. You Bory/Mentor |
| 11:15 – 11:30 am | Presentation of each group | |
| 11:30 – 11:45 am | Meeting between Mentor and Mentee to discuss the next task | Ms. Pil Dalen |
| 11:45 am | Appreciation and thank you speech to the trainer | GGAC |
| 12:00 pm | Group photo session and closing speech | Host |
“Self-awareness and Goal Setting” workshop was conducted to help the next generation potential youth understand themselves, their desire, what they’re good at, and which path they should choose for their future through the help of D.I.S.C Test. After completed the workshop, we also provided them some gift to appreciate their effort in participating and being active. Upon seeing this workshop successfully took off, we’re looking forward to expanding our mission to coach and help more youth in Cambodia discover their potential and understand themselves to the fullest. We hope they take advantage of their strengths and ability to follow their passion to achieve the job or career they pursue in the future.
August 2021 Cambodia Report
Completed Activities
In partnership with Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia (YEAC), there were two main coaching topics for career development completed virtually via Zoom as below:
Topic #1 : Enhance Human Resource Management Skill
Objective : Participants will be able to identify an individual behaviour management method; an attractive work environment for employees and be able to describe about work-related and individual relationship based on employees’ behaviours.
Doner :The session number 1, 2 were Funded by The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through PACT-Cambodia.
The session number 3 was co-funded by UNDP Cambodia. The activities were conducted in partnership with Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) and YEAC.
The session number 4 was funded by GIZ Cambodia
| Session Number | Date | Time | Number of Participant | Target Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 09, 2021 | 8:00am to 5:00pm | 30 Young Women Entrepreneurs who have registered themselves to the event and YEAC’s Members from Siem Reap province. There were 5 males participated. | Siem Reap Province |
| 2 | April 26, 2021 | 8:00am to 5:00pm | 20 Young Women Entrepreneurs who have registered themselves to the event and YEAC’s Members from Battambang province. There were 5 males participated. | Battambang province. |
| 3 | May 22, 29, and June 12, 2021 | 8:00am to 5:00pm | 50 participants from Junior Entrepreneurs Program (JEP) in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Kampong Cham | Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Kampong Cham |
| 4 | July 13 & 14, 2021 | 8:00am to 5:00pm | 50 Women Entrepreneurs who have registered themselves to the event and CWEA’s Members. | Siem Reap Province |
Topics #2: Coaching Skill
Objective: Participants will be able to describe the process and the value of coaching for using in their career development practice.
Date: August 06, 2021
Time: 3:00pm -6:00pm
Participants: 8 mentors who are volunteer to be mentor of Mentoring & Coaching program of YEAC
Donor: The activity Funded by The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through PACT-Cambodia
Furthermore, local APCDA member, Mrs. YOU Bory participated in a meeting which conducted by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The meeting was attended by 70 people, most of them are young business start-up. The meeting was held on August 03, 2021 in the purpose to raise awareness among youth on entrepreneurships and promote career development practice.
Next Activities:
In the upcoming months of 2021, there are three activities will be concucted incorporation with Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia (YEAC) as following
Activities 1:
Topic: Selecting study major and career which matching with your potentials
Date: August 14, 2021
Duration: One-hour session via Zoom
Guest speaker: Local APCDA member (Mrs. YOU Bory)
Activity 2:
Topic: Skills need in gig economy (Seeking International Guest Speaker)
Date: September 18, 2021
Duration: One-hour session via Zoom
Guest speaker: We would like to request an international guest speaker from APCDA headquarter
Activity 3:
Topic: Intrapreneurship Vs Entrepreneurship ((Seeking International Guest Speaker)
Date: October 16, 2021
Duration: One-hour session via Zoom
Guest speaker:
We would like to request an international guest speaker from APCDA headquarter
These three activities will be participated by members of Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia (YEAC); young professional and fresh graduated university students in purpose to leverage their knowledges and upgraded skills for career development.
Note: We would like to request a guest speaker from APCDA to share their best practices related to each topic. The sharing duration for a guest speaker in each topic would be around 30 to 40 minutes and there are 15 minutes for question and answer (Q&A).
October 2020 Cambodia Report
Junior Entrepreneurship Program (JEP) is established in cooperate with Young Entrepreneur Association of Cambodia and Career Development Association of Cambodia. There are 15 University students were recruited and we will select some potential participants train them to be Career Ambassador of APCDA Cambodia.
- Know Yourself
- Power of Positive Thinking
- How to Solve Problems
- Three Good Habits for Better Performance
- How to Work with Higher Pay
After completed we also provide them a certificate to appreciate their effort to develop their capacity during hard time. Even COVID-19 is arise but we still can develop ourselves. Moreover, we found the most active and outstanding student who can become our career ambassador for 2021. Our next mission is to coach them to help more youth in Cambodia to strengthen their capacity.
Support “Mentoring and Coaching” session for Young Women Entrepreneur
During COVID-19 September, Ms. Somaly Leap launched the online virtual sharing session to 25 university students regarding with Personal Development Part. So far, we had 19 students who have completed all sessions. The sharing session covered 5 topics
During COVID-19 September, Ms. Somaly Leap launched the online virtual sharing session to 25 university students regarding with Personal Development Part. So far, we had 19 students who have completed all sessions. The sharing session covered 5 topics 
November 2019 Cambodia Report
- APCDA Cambodia has proposed partnership with Young Entrepreneur Association of Cambodia (YEAC) to create a program called “Junior Entrepreneur Program”, to provide learning opportunity to ungraduated students entrepreneurship and enhance skill toward employability by involving in training and leading projects under YEAC projects.
- Plus, we are now starting to conduct a small monthly sharing sessions about HR Solution for SME, which is going to start from this Jan 2020, in purpose in sharing experience and solution to employer.
Last but not least, we are now form Cambodia Career Coaching Center, it will connect with APCDA.
September 2019 Cambodia Report
Prepared by Bory You
International:
Cambodia now is planning to register APCDA as an international association, in this September 2019.
More than this, we are also going to accept our membership and create some activities of 2020 planning, include create a small meeting with a professional team by cost-sharing, and going to host a seminar to schoolers, university students about job fit and career development.
Last but not least, we are now creating a secretariat office to support some admin task.
Seek Support Form APCDA Head Quarter
We need some documents to be registered, such as Registration Certificate that is used in Head Quarter, and letter of intent, in other to procedure admin task of registration in Cambodia.