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CKS College LazStart Training and Certification Program

Last Updated on March 8, 2022 1:35 PM

CKS Higher Education is proud to partner with Lazada Philippines in empowering the youth by equipping them with the skills that are most in demand through the LazStart Program. The first batch of the online training and certification program by Lazada Philippines was held last February 14, 21, & 28, 2022. The aim of this training and certification program is to understand the eCommerce landscape and the basics of building an online store in the Philippines.

The training was divided into 3 sessions:

Session 1

a. The Entrepreneurial Mindset

The participants were able to learn the right mentality before heading or starting a business. Participants were asked to take a quick personality test, discussed their fears and worries with starting a business, and checked if they are risk averse or risk tolerant.

b. The Digital Landscape

Participants were immersed in the data about the digital landscape and the opportunity that it presents to the them who want to open an online business.

c. Finding Your Niche Market

Starting a business needs to start with the question, "What is the problem I'm trying to solve for my prospective customer? Businesses need to know who their customers are so they can have a starting point to their market. The participants were able to learn how to target their own niche market.

Session 2

a. Discussed what e-commerce and online shopping is.

b. Demonstrated how to put up an online store in Lazada.

c. Participants were given a step by step guide on how to put up their own Lazada store and the features that are readily available for them to explore as well as business strategies

d. Customer Feedback

Participants were able to understand with the importance of customer feedback on businesses and how they can gather and utilize feedback to improve their services.

Session 3

The participants were able to present their own business pitch.

This FREE online training and certification program by Lazada Philippines is also open to all Senior High School students who want to specialize in the digital marketing field. For interested senior high school students, register via this link: https://tinyurl.com/LazadaphxCKSC on or before March 23, 2022. The second batch of training shall start on March 28, 2022.

Usapang Puso: The Languages of Love

Last Updated on February 24, 2022 6:57 PM

Last February 21, the NSTP 2 Tuesday group, handled by Prof. Ian Mark Arevalo, organized their first webinar entitled "Usapang Puso: The Languages of Love" hosted by Anjelo Sebastian and Alexandra Dela Cruz. Ms.Denise Geron and Mr. Amiel Bona, led the seminar as they discussed the different languages of love, namely: words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch, acts of service, and receiving gifts, to share further knowledge on how we can express love in many simple ways.

Ms. Geron and Mr. Bona concluded by saying that while love languages are useful tools for improving how we communicate and express ourselves, they should not be the only solution to happiness. Communication is a key to a good relationship.

HELLO WORLD: How to Kick-Start your Export Dream

Last Updated on March 3, 2022 12:53 AM

The CKS College Office for Continuing Professional Education in partnership with the School of Business, Accountancy, and HM, organized a business webinar entitled, "Hello World: How to Kick-Start your Export Dream". It was held last February 26, 2022, Saturday, at 11:00AM via Zoom. The resource speaker is a proud CKSian, Drew Alianan. He was a Mansmith Young Market Masters Awardee for Export Marketing and the Director for Marketing Operations of North Ridge Foods.

The speaker shared steps on how to kick-start an export business. Having a vision and making a strategic roadmap come first in the list. Strategies must be communicated with all the stakeholders. Second is capacity alignment. The human, financial, and production capacity must be aligned with the strategic goals. This is followed by getting all the necessary documents in order to have the product country-compliant. Lastly, identify potential distribution partners/ consolidators and plan the initial spread.

This webinar was held in order to to get to know one of the country's top performing export companies in major countries worldwide and had a glimpse into what it takes to make a product export-ready.

Stock Market 101: Essentials to Start Investing Successfully

Last Updated on December 7, 2021 11:57 AM

Chiang Kai Shek College Office for Continuing Professional Education in partnership with the School of Business, Accountancy, and HM, organized a free webinar entitled, "Stock Market 101: Essentials to Start Investing Successfully". The webinar was in coordination with Philstocks Financial, Inc. which was held last November 27, 2021, Saturday, at 1:30PM via Zoom.

The speakers were able to provide an in-depth discussion filled with highly valuable information and exceedingly useful and practical tips about stocks investment. The talk focused on stock market start-up and were able to discuss the following: Having a WINvesting mindset; different kinds of investor; the journey to financial freedom; the stock market; opportunities in the stock market; the tools and strategies to be used for invesment and to fully understand the stock market. https://linetogel.live/

Forensic Accounting: What You Need To Know

Last Updated on May 26, 2023 10:23 PM

Last September 25, 2021, a webinar regarding the updates in the field of accountancy was organized by the CKSC Office of Continuing Professional Education, in partnership with the School of Business, Accountancy, and Hospitality Management. The webinar entitled “Forensic Accounting: What You Need To Know” was successfully discussed by our esteemed guest speaker, Prof. Mark Ivan Leo Ricafrente. The rise of various fraud cases led to the significant development of Forensic Accounting in the accounting field. As elaborated by Prof. Ricafrente, the pursuit of being a forensic accountant is not exclusive for those who are in the field of audit or accountancy, but can be pursued by everyone as long as they have the following abilities:

· paying attention to the smallest detail;

· analyzing data thoroughly;

· thinking creatively;

· possessing common business sense;

· being proficient with a computer and having excellent communication skills;

· having a “sixth sense” and a “photographic memory” that be used to visualize and reconstruct the details of past accounting transactions;

Mr. Ricafrente also discussed the Fraud Triangle, a useful tool to uncover possible fraud in an organization/system.