How not to work a single day in your life?
A great Chinese thinker, philosopher, and teacher, Confucius, once answered this question: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” But another question arises: how do you choose your true life’s calling?
Knowing what you want to do allows you to avoid wasting time searching for yourself, hesitating before making choices, and going through trial and error. The clearer and more precise this understanding is, the more it concentrates your efforts in learning, acquiring skills, and staying focused on your goal.
Guided by this understanding, the “Alviva Group” initiated a career orientation training for employees’ children in celebration of Children’s Day.
The event was organized at the “Stolichny Bakery House” with the involvement of child psychologist Tetiana Dovgopol. She conducted the training in an interactive, game-based format so that children would find it engaging and learn to identify their abilities and talents, which may become the foundation for their future profession.
“I really like that the Alviva Group invited a child psychologist specifically. Not just a psychologist who helps employees, but one who works directly with children. It is truly valuable and timely to support employees not only when they are already working at the enterprise, but also while they are still growing up—when they can be guided and helped in making the right choices,” shares Tetiana.
“The training helps children become aware of their abilities, which can become the foundation for a future profession that brings satisfaction and happiness, because a person spends a significant part of their life at work, and the main task is to increase this happiness index.”
Through special exercises, together with the psychologist, the children identified their mathematical inclinations, leadership qualities, and organizational skills. They tried negotiating and persuading, working in teams to achieve shared results, explored their creativity and ability to create original and practical fashion designs, and tested their talent for presenting products and services.
The idea for the career guidance training was explained by the HR Director of the Alviva Group, Ilona Pasichnyk:
“Based on communication with employees across our companies, we often heard that their children struggle to decide which field to choose and spend a long time searching for themselves. That is why this is especially relevant for teenagers who are approaching the end of their basic and secondary education,” said Ilona.
She also added that professional dynasties often emerge within the group, when children follow in their parents’ footsteps and join companies such as Kyivkhlib.
Alviva Group aims to make such initiatives regular in the future—not only for children, but also for current employees, because the workplace, as a second home, should bring growth and satisfaction.