Career guidance plays an important role in supporting students' interests, strengths and aspirations. All of us have some certain significant goals or aspirations that we hope to achieve in the future. A well-constructed career plan can assist in reaching these goals and eventually to success. Choosing a career path is one of the most important decision-making ventures in life. However, with various external pressures, selecting the right career can be fairly difficult in this competitive environment.
Many students make career decision hastily without much thought and end up unsatisfied with the job or the profession they are in. The stress and frustration of the job may lead to depression on a person. Career counselling can be very effective in empowering students to realize their inner potential, skills and interest in choosing a satisfying career. In many western countries, career counselling is considered to be a foremost step to be taken before deciding on a permanent career. Career counsellor aims to encourage the youth for making future decisions by sharing awareness of career opportunities and possibilities according to their skills and interests in the chosen course.
MyGov-Arunachal Pradesh invites citizens to share views on the importance of career counselling in making a permanent career decision and how it can help in the development of an individual.
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Once the career route is mapped out, one can pursue ones career goals with focus and dedication. Apart from eradicating confusion and dissatisfaction, mapping out a career route, helps an individual to keep abreast with the development and changes related to ones career field.
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Additionally, a career counselor will provide information about the courses as well as clarify doubts and confusion regarding the course profile; e.g.: understanding the difference between visual communication and Mass communication- the content and duration etc. The end result being , that a career counselor will help you in organizing your thoughts and ideas and boost your morale.
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Planning/Making an informed choice:
Career counselling starts with understanding individual career choices, areas of improvement. Once that has been done, career route is charted out. This would include that probable courses or streams that the individual can pursue, the necessary entrance exams(if applicable) and the cutoffs for the same, the eligibility for specific courses
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
However, today there is a dearth of knowledge regarding the various career options. You may feel that you are spoil for choice and cannot make a career decision. Or, you may be confused and uninformed and need someone to guide about the options that are open to you.
This is where a career counselling plays a pivotal role. So what does career counselling involve?
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Every student faces a common question. What career do I take up? What course do I opt for? In the olden days, we used to rely on snippets of information that we would hear from people or opt for a conventional choice or depend on the decision that our parents could take. The awareness regarding different streams and sub-streams was much lower at that time.
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
I will only conclude by saying that you also need to know that it is very important to have the right mentor. The MINDLER team is led by Prateek Bhargava, a double MBA from ISB Hyderabad and MDI Gurgaon, whose passion for career counseling has made us recognized all over the world. We also have counselors from IITs and other prestigious institutions because we believe in connecting students to domain experts. Mr. Prikshit Dhanda, a renowned career expert, trained at Harvard University is the sup
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Career counselors are not magicians who just decide your career for you. Career counseling is a very difficult and scientific procedure, which needs to be taken seriously because someone's life depends on it.
I remember when I was young adult, trying to figure out what I wanted to do. That did not come easy, because I had no guide, no career counselor. And people who claimed to be “career counselors” were just telling me something that was generic.
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Counselors are these Experts, and career counselors are the ones who actively guide you, listen to you and understand you, your dreams, aspirations, whatever you have in your mind. Then collaborate all these things with your aptitude, emotional intelligence, orientation and other aspects of your personality to not only tell you the best career path for you, but also how to improve yourself, and keep improving yourself. And that is why, career counseling is one of the most challenging tasks, fill
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Let us talk about Counseling in general. Why is any kind of counseling important? Is it because we are not capable enough to solve our own problems, or is it because we are scared that we are not an expert in the area which needs counseling. Why can’t we just decide what we want and then tread off to do it?
Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago
Let us talk about Counseling in general. Why is any kind of counseling important? Is it because we are not capable enough to solve our own problems, or is it because we are scared that we are not an expert in the area which needs counseling. Why can’t we just decide what we want and then tread off to do it?