About CGU
The constant and rapid expansion of higher education sector and the changing landscape of the labour market in Sri Lanka and overseas are core concerns of a planned intervention on increasing, among others, the employability of potential graduates of Bachelor of Business Administration Degree Program which is offered with a number of specializations by the Faculty of Management and Finance. Four years of reading for this bachelor's degree creates higher value, when we educate and nurture our undergraduates on job roles in the industry that would fit them, competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) required of each role, expectations of these roles, and matching individual profiles and interests of undergraduates with the said competencies and expectations.
Thus, the underlying rationale of Career Guidance Unit (CGU) in the Faculty of Management & Finance emanates from the clear necessity of preparing proactively our undergraduates to be competitive in the labour market.
This CGU is headed by the Coordinator and equipped with two principal arms for operations, i.e. Career Guidance and Career Counselling. The former caters to the need for creating and maintaining the relevant databases whereas Career Counselling calls for closer interactions between undergraduates and the staff of the CGU enabling the former explore carefully their career choices. Quintessentially, this new unit looks passionately forward to forging and sustaining mutually beneficial collaborations with organizations in the private, public, and non- governmental organization (NGO) sectors. They could be forged through a multitude of interventions including, but not limited to, conducting Assessment centers, FMF Counselling Center, Career guidance workshops, FMF Mentoring programme, FMF sports week, FMF cultural show, Speech craft programme, Soft skills development workshops, Graduate
employability surveys, Awareness programme on stress relief and need for counselling, organizing annually a Careers fair, Enterprise-based project, Community development project, FMF Industry visits programme, FMF Golden speech programme, bringing the corporate sector experts to dialogue with undergraduates and the academic staff on producing employable graduates, and promoting joint research with corporate sector organizations on career guidance and career counselling.
Mr. G. Ranaweerage
Coordinator – Career Guidance Unit
Coordinators-Staff
Mr. G. Ranaweerage
Coordinator – Career Guidance Unit
Ms. S.A.D.K.S. Dissanayake
Programme Coordinator of FMF Effective Career Guidance Workshops
CGU Coordinator of Accounting Department
Mr. Pasan Wijayawardhana
CGU Coordinator of Business Economics Department
Ms.Udeshika Pathirana
CGU Coordinator of Finance Department
Ms. K. M. M. Methma Karunarathne
CGU Coordinator of International Business Department
Ms. M. Shanika Dilhani Senavirathna
CGU Coordinator of Management and Organization Studies Department
Ms. Asheni De Silva
CGU Coordinator of Human Resources Management Department
Ms. S. D. Salini Nuwanthara
Employability Survey 2023
- Public
- Private
- Semi Goverment
- Foreign
- Self Employed
Employability Survey 2022
- Public
- Self-employed
- Private
- Semi Goverment
- Foreign
FMF Employability Survey Details from 2015 to 2018
UoC Employability Survey Details
Online Job Portal System- UoC
The Online Job Portal is a system introduced by the Career Guidance Unit for undergraduate students of the University of Colombo to find future jobs and internship opportunities.
(Online Job Portal System යනු කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ උපාධි අපේක්ෂකයින් සඳහා අනාගත රැකියා අවස්ථා සහ සීමාවාසික (internship) අවස්ථා සොයා ගැනීම සඳහා වෘත්තීය මාර්ගෝපදේශබණ ඒකකය විසින් හඳුන්වා දෙනු ලබන පද්ධතියකි)
You can now register online.
Please drop us a mail to the CGU coordinator@cgum.cmb.ac.lk
Then we will send you the Instruction details.
The objective of this Online Job Portal System (https://cgu.cmb.ac.lk/job-portal/#) is to bridge the gap between Employers and Undergraduates. This operates under three main functions.
- Companies can directly recruit undergraduates for permanent jobs, part time jobs and internships.
- Companies also can use the Job Portal for their business advertisements.
- Undergraduates create a profile with all the necessary information and search/apply to jobs and internship opportunities posted on the site.
Please visit the University Career Guidance Unit, meet Career Adviser- Ms. Udari Withange or Ms. Pawithra Pinnaduwa to create your Job Portal Account.
Also you can check our LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/university-of-colombo-80121418/recent-activity/all/ to search and apply for internship and job opportunities.
CGU-NEWS & EVENTS
Updates from CGU-Faculty of Management and Finance.
Contact Information
Tel: 011 25 06 354
Career Guidance Unit
Faculty of Management & Finance
University of Colombo Colombo 03
Sri Lanka