Why Student Need Career Counseling?

Your career development is a lifelong process that, whether you know it or not, actually started when you were born! There are a number of factors that influence your career development, including your interests, abilities, values, personality, background, and circumstances. Career Counseling is a process that will help you to know and understand yourself and the world of work in order to make career, educational, and life decisions.

Career development is more than just deciding on a major and what job you want to get when you graduate. It really is a lifelong process, meaning that throughout your life you will change, situations will change, and you will continually have to make career and life decisions. The goal of Career Counseling is to not only help you make the decisions you need to make now, but to give you the knowledge and skills you need to make future career and life decisions.

What does career counselling offer?

Choosing Right Career

Career counselling helps students discover their true potential and interest in various subjects in order to help them choose the right career. Several institutes, including schools and colleges, today offer career counselling through a series of aptitude and IQ tests. The tests usually have multiple-choice questions, which don’t need to be prepared for in any way.

Guidance to students

Career counselling is the guidance given to a student on the road he/she should take to achieve his/her goals. The advice and counselling provided is based on three deciding factors — personality, aptitude and interest.

No confusions

Friends and family can very often provide incorrect guidance because their parameters of judging a career choice might differ. A counsellor is objective while giving guidance, with no considerations other than aptitude and interest.

Challenges Associated with Career Counselling

Encouraging Parents and students to take part in counselling is very difficult as people still have a perception that it is time-consuming.

For example in India, there are still 60% of people who don’t take career advice 70% of people under 14 say they have had no careers advice while 45% of people over 14 have had no or very poor/limited advice.

Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of students opting for courses other than engineering. While this is a positive sign, there is no doubting the fact that engineering still remains a dominant choice of students pursuing higher studies.

Exploring Career and Major Options

• “I have no idea what I want to do with my life.”
• “I don’t know what to major in.”
• “I’ve narrowed it down to a couple career options, but I’m having a hard time choosing between them.”
• “I know what I want to major in, but I have no idea what I want to do once I graduate.”
• “I know what I want to do, but I’m not sure what the best major would be.
• “I want to know what kinds of jobs I can get with my major.”
• “I don’t feel like I know enough about all the different careers out there to know what I want to do.”

Resolving Conflicts

• “I like a lot of different subjects, and I keep changing my major because I’m not sure which one is the best for me!”
• “I don’t like any of my classes and none of the majors seem really appealing to me.”
• “I have a lot of work experience and I want to find a new career path that will build on the skills I already have.”
• “I was planning on going into the _______ program, but I applied and didn’t get in. What do I do now?”
• “I always thought I wanted to be a _______, but I got into my major and I really don’t like it!”
• “I really like my major, but it’s not what I want to do for my career.”
• “I know what type of work I’d like to do, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to make enough money doing it.”
• “My family really wants me to be a _______, but I’m not sure if that’s really what I want.”
• “I’ve always planned on being a _______, but I’m wondering if it’s only because that’s all I know.”
• “I want to find a field to go into where there will always be plenty of jobs.”
• “I want to find a career that will allow me to provide significant financial support for my family.”
• “I’m working towards my career, but I think I might just really want to be a stay-at-home parent.”
• “I’ve always planned to stay in Boise, but to do what I’d like to do I’d have to move.”
• “I can’t find a job, so I’m thinking about going to grad school.”

students career even if he/she is good in studies students they visit the career fairs but fails for admissions due to lack of money.

Overcoming students unclear educational goals, academic stress, lack of self-efficiency are some of the major challenges faced in the process of a career counselling.

What Career Counselling Is Not

There are some common misconceptions about career counselling. Let us have a look at what career counselling is not:

It is not general advice about careers, courses and curriculum.

Career Counsellors help you pick the best career options, based on your abilities. Their suggestions and guidance are unbiased.

It is not a short-term process that gives instant results.

Career Counselling takes time, effort and patience. It is a long-term process involving many changes on the part of the student.

It is not a service that helps you get jobs or admissions in companies and colleges respectively.

Career Counsellors are not affiliated to any academic institution. They only help you reach your potential and aim for the best institutes and companies in your career.

It is not a procedure that runs on trial-and-error.

Career Counselling is a scientific process and involves making calculated moves, based on hard facts and methodical research.

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