My First Recruitment Talk

I conducted assembly talk to 2 groups of students from Pioneer Secondary School on Innovation and it's importance in this century. The talk that I conducted was more of a recruitment drive, selling programs to students, getting them to sign up for the I&E program that was due to start in 2 weeks time. The school needed 40 students but i only managed to get 20 students to sign up. Looks like the teachers will have to follow up with the students to get the other half.  It was a challenging task, i have to admit. As this was my first time conducting talks and selling programs to students. It was a good start though. Before the talk, a few students offered to help us test our camera's functionality.

Pioneer Secondary School is a dynamic school and is one of the schools that has a strong emphasis on Innovation and Enterprise as a platform to develop life's skills. I think this is a good initiative because the organizations are investing time, money and effort in gearing towards Innovation.

During the talk, I shared with them the importance of I&E in today's context. The world has enough complainers as it is. In the next generation, we hope such initiative in innovation and spirit of entrepreneurship will create a generation of problem solvers that will be more proactive in dealing with matters at hand, rather than to wait for politicians or government to get things moving.

That's me

showing a video to create awareness

Look at the number of students.. 

After the 2 talks that i conducted, i learned a few important things..

1. Always have a bottle of water ready at hand as 2 hours of talking can be very dehydrating.
2. Have a little isotonic or sweet drink for that small booster.
3. A recruitment drive should not be an hour process. It should be a continuous process within a few days with posters placed all over the school to drive the message in. A lesson learnt. 

I sure look forward to such talks in the future. I think such talks helps to train the salesmanship in each of us and it is very different to conducting a workshop.