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How important is Career Counselling for Students?

Start Date: 05-08-2019
End Date: 01-08-2022

Career guidance plays an important role in supporting students' interests, strengths and aspirations. All of us have some certain significant goals or aspirations ...

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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.

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Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

Thousands of Children each year need to make a decision regarding which stream to choose. They and their parents are plagued with the anxiety of making a right career decision. To aid this decision making, professional career counselling is the most crucial.

Here are some of the reasons that make Career Counselling a worth the effort, time and money.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

Thousands of Children each year need to make a decision regarding which stream to choose. They and their parents are plagued with the anxiety of making a right career decision. To aid this decision making, professional career counselling is the most crucial.

Here are some of the reasons that make Career Counselling a worth the effort, time and money.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

Though not many schools in India give career counselling to students, if your school does not provide you professional counsellors, you can always seek the help of independent counsellors. It is always better to seek professional guidance rather than go for something that the whole herd is going for.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

Job Satisfaction
Choosing a career that matches one’s aptitude and personality itself translates into professional success and popularity. The main aim of career counselling is to help students choose a field that is in tune with their skills and their job expectations. Thus, with the help of career counselling, most candidates end up choosing the right career, and perform their level best, which ultimately helps them succeed.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

So a career counselling and guidance is needed to help organize ones thoughts and ideas on career related decisions.It can boost the morale and confidence and give new directions to the students which will be beneficial for the whole society.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

So a career counselling and guidance is needed to help organize ones thoughts and ideas on career related decisions.It can boost the morale and confidence and give new directions to the students which will be beneficial for the whole society.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

Making an Informed Choice To Choose a Career
Career counselling sessions helps the students to know the pros and cons of the different streams, courses and educational options and the career path it offers, thus the students can make an informed choice, and get a career assessment that helps avoid the risk of change in career path later in life. The importance of pinpointing the work cut out for each person can only be gauged when one sees the agony of extreme job misfits.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

A class 11th -12th student with his subject combinations is flooded with agencies providing various entrance preparation and colleges luring his / her attention. What help he has parents, teachers and admission counsellors whose only job is to place the student in college and course where they will get commission. A graduate who is doing the course because the parents wants him/ her to do it or he was not sure of any other and thus is doing the course is also confused about career choices.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

A class 11th -12th student with his subject combinations is flooded with agencies providing various entrance preparation and colleges luring his / her attention. What help he has parents, teachers and admission counsellors whose only job is to place the student in college and course where they will get commission. A graduate who is doing the course because the parents wants him/ her to do it or he was not sure of any other and thus is doing the course is also confused about career choices.

Bhawna 5 years 8 months ago

In school a helpless 16 year old is faced with the choice of various streams - Humanities, Science with mathematics, science with biology and Commerce, and the only career guidance he has is the opinion of his parents, his teacher’s judgement based on his marks and the comments of his friends and neighbors.