Need for Career Counselling
We often come across individuals who are
grossly unhappy and unfulfilled with the work they are doing, a recent survey
indicated that 70% of the professionals going to the work are unhappy
and want to be in a different profession. In almost all the cases, these
individuals would have spent a much happier life if they had got into the right
profession with career guidance at the right age or stage of their lives.
As Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody
is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will
live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” The question that we
should have for all of us at this point of our journey is, “What is your genius
and how to arrive at that?”
Most
students make poor study stream and career selection decisions due to
uncertainty and lack of awareness which was quite evident in another survey
done on the high school students where the students were aware of only 7
careers on an average, when in the modern times, 200+ lucrative careers
are on offer.
To arrive at the most suited career for
an individual, the career counseling is needed at the right age since most of
the time, our career is largely dependent on the study stream that we select. High school is by far the most
susceptible moment in terms of career. So, the perfect age to start the
career counseling process is when the student is close to make the study
streams decision like in class 9th or 10th.
But for
those who have crossed the high school stage, it is never too late since we
have so many examples of individuals who have already selected a professional
career making a career shift to the best suited career options with the right
guidance and counseling.
What is Career Counseling and how does it help?
Our
career development is a lifelong process that actually started when you
were infants. There are a number of factors that influence our career
development, including our interests, skills, values, personality, background,
and circumstances. Career Counseling is a process that will help us
to know and understand our skills, persona, interest along the world of work in
order to make career, educational, and life decisions.
The goal
of Career Counseling is to not only help us make the decisions we need to make
now, but to give us the knowledge and skills we need to make future career and
life decisions.
Career counselling is more than just filling out a
questionnaire about your preferred career path. It’s a scientific method that
helps students to evaluate their abilities, understand their persona, be clear
on their interest and subjectively analyse the most suited career options, and
choose the best one for them. Career counsellors help the students develop a
solid career strategy which can give them lifelong fulfilment & happiness.
Those who use Google Maps on their phones are aware
of how precise the route to a destination is displayed. Similarly, career
counsellors guide a student down the best career route by laying out a
well-defined course for them to follow. A clear career map is an effective tool
for students to stay focused and achieve positive and successful outcomes.
New Age Careers and Skills required for students in the 21st
Century
Careers
in the 21st century have got evolved which includes modern careers
like Digital Marketing, UI Designer, Data Science, Gamer, Social Influencer,
Social Media Managers etc. Accordingly, to the world economic forum, 65% of
children entering schools will end up in professions that don’t yet exist and
students are not fully ready to face the uncertainties of fast changing world.
Therefore, it is important to understand what are the top new age careers and
what kind of skills are required by students to upskill themselves in the 21st
Century.
The
skills which are required to be developed in students for the new age careers
are problem solving, effective communication, creativity, coding,
multi-tasking, emotional intelligence, self-motivation. These are a total of 18
such top skills which are required to be developed for holistic development of
the students for helping them into careers of the 21st century.
How career recommendation should be done:
Career Counseling is a very structured process
which is divided into the following steps
·
Step 1 - Career Aptitude Testing – where a student is asked
to take a aptitude and psychometric test to understand the students skills,
interest and personality
·
Step 2 – Career Counseling and guidance – where the
counselor talks to the student and understands the students background, goals
and other intrinsic feedback and then uses the career report to understand the
student holistically and guide the student
·
Step 3 – Career Plan and Learning recommendations – the
career counselor chalks out a plan to advice on recommended careers, learnings
and skill grade to go in such careers, developing career goals and finding the
right institutions and courses to target.
The ideal career for an individual is the one which
is based on skills, persona, interest and the long-term scope of the selected
career.
Based on the psychometric career test, report and
counseling, students should be encouraged to pick up the right subjects,
extracurricular activities, and courses that complement the skills and talent
of the individual. This direction not only helps the individuals find out your
key strengths but also guides to work on it and most importantly utilize it to
their advantage. Selecting the right subjects or streams is most likely the
first step the student will take for moving in the right direction in the
career and choosing the same accurately and judiciously is the first benefit of
the career counseling process.
Another very important aspect here is for students
and parents to understand the modern-day career options since the career
landscape has vastly changed in last 5-10 years because of the advancements of
digital technology and is continuously changing. So, it is not just important
to understand the most suited careers but also to dig deep in each of these
career options to see what is the long-term prospect of this career and whether
the chosen career will flourish further with the changing technology, social
and behavioural dynamics.
Gurukulprep’s career counselling platform has been
designed keeping all the above aspects in contention. The vision of Gurukulprep
is to help students & professionals realize their potential, and align them
to the right career path
Gurukulprep
follows the concept of Holistic 360 degrees skill assessment and learning. Our
psychometric assessments have been created after an extensive research and
statistical validations by a team of experts who are PHDs, Psychologist,
Neuroscience experts, IITians with AI expertise and HR experts. Gurukulprep measures
individual’s unique aptitude, interest and personality, which are used to
uniquely suggest the desired careers for the student and also recommended the
learning interventions needed for skill upliftment. There are 14 unique skills,
10 interest parameters and 10 core personality dimensions which assessed as
part of our career tests.
Till date, more than 30,000 students
have received career, job and upskilling related counselling on Gurukulprep’s platform across 118+
cities and 24 states in India and 4 other countries. Gurukulprep has received multiple accolades and awards
in National & International forums and media channels.
Gurukulprep Career Tests can be
taken at www.gurukul.plus and Gurukulprep
can be contacted at support@gurukulprep.com and on the following
numbers - +91-9506221793, +91-9889725336
