Career Transformation Training for Journalists Held in Almaty

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Institute for War&Peace Reporting (IWPR) held a two-day event in Almaty for journalists and media editors of Kazakhstan and alumni of CABAR.asia School of Analytics on May 19-20.

Opening the first day, Begaiym Adzhikeeva, IWPR Programme Manager, highlighted that the key task of the event is to have experts and media representatives meet each other. For the former, it was an opportunity to tell about themselves and their expertise. For the latter, it was a chance to find new speakers for their materials.

During networking games, participants could get to know each other, exchange contacts, as well as to share ideas for projects.

The second day was fully dedicated to journalist training to help them move up in their career or possibly to change it to a related profession. Journalist and career adviser Daria Bublik told about how to overcome crises of personal and professional development and to change profession smoothly.

According to her, horizontal career move has been trending recently as it opens up new opportunities for growth and earning. She highlighted such key journalistic skills as adaptability, ability to analyse and build networking, which are also required in other areas.

In continuation of the topic, Mira Khalina, chief of operations team of the Kazakhstan-based platform 5Qbe.kz, told about passive income opportunities for journalists and content makers.

*Dzhamilya Maricheva. Photo: CABAR.asia*

Dzhamilya Maricheva, editor and founder of media project Protenge.kz, held a session on personal branding. She told why a journalist needs to be recognisable on social media and how working on your personal brand can lead to interesting opportunities and big projects.

The session held by Tatiana Trubacheva, editor of CABAR.asia in Kazakhstan, on open data for advanced users aroused great interest. She made examples of what to look for in financial and legal documents, as well as where and how to search for such documents not only in Kazakhstan, but also abroad. She also showed how to find information about company owners, reveal corruption schemes and write a good story about it by means of open data.

First, I’d like to emphasise speakers. They are famous, educated. Each of them has a flawless background and great experience. The training programme was perfect. […] The training was a success, to my mind. I can tell it from my personal experience. I didn’t even browse my cell phone and I believe this is the most important indicator of the training efficiency. At least, this is my opinion.

– Botagoz Omarova (Astana)

The workshop was held just perfectly. I liked the speakers very much. The information that I obtained would be useful not only to me, but to all of my colleagues. The most useful information was about working with documents. Information rules today – if you get information first, you publish it first.

– Ainagul Manabayeva (Kyzylorda)

It was really great to hear Dzhamilya Maricheva as she has such an extensive experience in starting up a successful project from scratch. The session about how to find the budget and other tax payments of various organisations was very useful, too. I took note of our local brawls in Petropavlovsk.

– Aleksandr Danchev (Petropavlovsk)

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