Career Guidance

Introduction
A career counseling course is an essential factor for identifying the real potential and guiding students toward the right career path. Students need to know the importance of career counseling and the right guidance before they are going to choose an academic stream after taking the board exams. Career counseling will help choose a career goal, plan, and give direction to students for a better future ahead.
What is Career Counselling?
In current times, career counseling is a need as most students pick commonly known domains as their career options. Career counseling is an effort for students’ career guidance right from their school about the available career options as per their interests and stream of academics.
Through career counseling, an analysis can be done for students which will help them find out their interests and also their strengths and weaknesses.
Why is career counseling important for high school students?
Career counseling would be done in the school itself for class 9-12 students specifically because these are the levels where students choose a particular stream as their specialization and also, it will be helpful for them to decide the stream they should opt for. This is because many students are not satisfied with the stream they choose and tend to change it; this happens in absence of proper guidance about options available as per their interests and different education stream.
With career counseling, students would be able to know –

• Their aptitude and interests
• Strengths and weaknesses of a particular interest
• Making the choice of the stream for education from class 10
• career options available in the market as per their academic choice
• Career options available as per their interest
• Some alternate career options if they decide to change their stream in future

Conclusion: Students, as well as their parents, should begin career planning right from class 10th because, after this level, only a particular stream could be followed and career options will be limited to their choice of the stream only. The stream choice also depends on the career planning and interests of students.
Conclusion: Students, as well as their parents, should begin career planning right from class 10th because, after this level, only a particular stream could be followed and career options will be limited to their choice of the stream only. The stream choice also depends on the career planning and interests of students.

Career Counsellor will:
1. Help you figure out who you are and what you want out of your education, your career, and your life.
2. Be someone for you to talk to about your thoughts, ideas, feelings, and concerns about your career and educational choices, who will help you sort out, organize, and make sense of your thoughts and feelings.
3. Help you identify the factors influencing your career development, and help you assess your interests, abilities, and values.
4. Help you locate resources and sources of career information.
5. Help you to determine the next steps and develop a plan to achieve your goals.

Revised AY 2020-2021