Ladies Soft Skills Mentoring Program

The HCE Ladies Soft Skills Mentoring Program is specially organized for female candidates. The selected candidates will obtain the opportunity to engage with a mentor to further enhance their soft skills with real practical experiences. The mentoring program applies a coaching style to deliver the knowledge and skill as the candidates will act as the apprentices.

This platform has uniquely offered for ladies to influence our society in positive ways. We are striving to help ladies to avoid getting bogged down in the day to day career/study and personal life. It is important to educate individual to obtain a balancing point. Through this, we can help ladies in the fields of the arts and law find the feminine path to success and a voice in our world. As ladies, you have a well of strength and an eye on the future. Add to the capabilities you already possess, and nothing can stop the achievement of your vision. Reach deep, smile in the face of change and meet your potential.

HCE has done great research on Malaysian Ladies on the soft skills ability and noted that communication skills, confidence level, creative thinking, time management skills, problem solving skills and project management skills are the skills which required vigorous improvement.

This is a program which is supported by The Global Entrepreneur Week (GEW), Warisan Global (Malaysia Country Host) and Kauffman (Global Founders). The objectives of this mentoring program includes: -
• Create the awareness of importance in developing soft skills
• Increase employability or career advancement
• Platform to apply acquired skills practically
• Increase the usage of social media and networking
• Equip candidates with new sense of confidence and competence
• Enable candidates to manage team dynamics and high performance as capable leaders

Entry Criteria
• Malaysian female aged between 18 and 30
• All submission must be written in English

*Do not take this as a competition or challenge although we only select 10 finalists. It is the matter of you getting the insight of the selection process and knowing the importance of developing soft skills and enhances you to strive in the society

Procedures of Participation

Round One
• Please obtain the registration form by emailing to aileng.chiang@gmail.com or send a text message to 0173377411 stating your email address. (If the registration form is not sent within 3 days, you may need to resend or re-text)
• Participants are required to submit an essay with the title ‘Why do I want to participate in this mentoring program’.
• Essay should be written in English and limited to 200 words
• Essay and registration form must be submitted online via this email address aileng.chiang@gmail.com
• Deadline for submission is 16 October 2009

Round Two
• Short-listed Candidates will be notified on the 17 October 2009 and invited to attend the Mentoring Program Introduction Day on the 21 October 2009
• Selected Candidates are required to make payment of RM 30 per person

Round Three
• Candidates are required to answer short questions via network anytime of the day
• Procedure will be explained and individual password ID will be given to get access into this mentoring program forum during the Program Introduction Day
• The duration of this activity is 5 days from 26 Oct 2009 to 30 Oct 2009.
• Short listed candidates will be posted in the forum on 1 Nov 2009

Final
• Short-listed individuals will be invited to attend the Self-Evaluation Challenge Workshop on the 25 Nov 2009.
• Different soft skills abilities will be evaluated
• All short-listed individuals in the final round will be presented a certificate of participation

Awards
• Entitle to attend the Soft Skills Mentoring Program in December 2009 from HCE Organization
• Given the opportunity to run a PROJECT during the program with the assistance and coach from the mentor
• Training Workshops Voucher worth RM 500
• A certificate will be presented at the end of the mentoring program
• Elected to be the committee member of HCE Ladies Society