Vision

“Empowering budding future representatives of emerging India”

Mission

“To help students identify the various career paths available to them and prepare them for the same.”

Objectives

1. To work in the field of career education, guidance and counseling offering service to all sections of the society, irrespective of caste, creed, race and religion in any city, state of India.
   
2. To organize career guidance workshops, career fairs, seminars, symposiums and programs in association with other NGO's, schools, colleges, agencies & government organizations at national, regional and local levels.
   
3. To develop, adapt or adopt ICT-based career guidance programs, and make them readily available via the websites on the internet and CD-ROM.
   
4. To develop & conduct high quality training programs for students, parents and teachers that combine classroom-based learning with practical skills developments for their careers

Founder and Director

Mr. Ameen-e-Mudassar, 30, is an Engineering Graduate from PESIT, Bangalore & Certified Counselor from Christ University, Bangalore. He is a Career Counsellor and Director of CIGMA India & CIGMA Foundation working in the field of Career Guidance & Counselling since 2001. He has conducted over 250 career guidance programs across 30 towns, cities & metros of India reaching more than 65,000 school and college students.

He is a regular career columnist for Deccan Herald, DH-Education, Bangalore.

CIGMA Foundation was the "Knowledge Partner" for Career Counselling Sessions organized by The HINDU across 7 cities in Karnataka in May 2010 & Mr. Ameen-e-Mudassar conducted the Session on " After PUC, What Next ?" reaching out to more than 3000 students.

He is also

• Member, International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG), Canada.
• President - LEAD Trust, Bangalore.
• President - Movement for Students Welfare Trust (MSWT), Bangalore.
• Volunteer - Danish Educational Trust, Bangalore.
• State Co-ordinator - Karnataka State Minorities Scholarship Committee, Bangalore.
• Advisor - Career Guidance & Information Center, Mangalore.

He is also the author of the popular book “After SSLC, What Next?” which is widely read by students, parents, teachers, counselors and educationists across India.

He is a regular speaker on topics like

• “Study Skills for Excellence in Exams”
• " How to crack competitive exams ?"
• “After School/College, What Next?”
• “After Engineering, What Next?”
• “After Graduation, What Next?”

He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and +91-9845567687

Advisory Board

• Sherif Kottapurath.M
  CEO, iCalibrator Training Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.
  Formerly CTO, India Engineering Center of Sun Microsystems.

• M.C. Pankaja
  Founder, Prasanna Counseling Center, Bangalore.
  Over 27 years of service in guidance and counseling.

• V. Thomas Mani
  Ph.D, Computer & Info Labs, University of Delaware, USA.
  BE(Hons) Computer Science, BITS Pilani.
  Karnataka State 1st Rank(IIPUC-1995), 16th Rank (SSLC-1993).

• M.A.Shariff
  Management Consultant, PricewaterHouse Coopers, Bangalore.
  MBA - IIM Ahmedabad, MS- Harvard University, USA, Msc - London School of Economics, UK. Gold Medalist in BE (IEM), Bangalore University.

• Reema Kochar
  Former Faculty, Dept. of PG Studies in Psychology, Christ College, Bangalore.
  Child Counsellor.