Career Counselling and Career Coaching

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                    Every student has faced the question " What’s NEXT?" at some point of their academic lives. It might come from our family members or relatives or from our ever curious neighbors. It may be a student finishing their middle school and promoting to high school or a CLASS X student taking the heat of examinations, with a tension of selecting a stream and confused with college options, we all face these questions all around us at every milestone of a student life.
As a student we are safe sound and at ease in school premises like a caterpillar in cocoon, free of all buzzing of life. But as we cross each stage from primary to middle school to higher school the mindset keeps maturing and we start exploring ourselves what we are, what we can do, and our enthusiasm leaps to explore the wide exciting world outside the school. As we cross the most important milestone of exiting from school our choices our decisions start taking shape, spreading our wings of talent with excitement and relentlessness. So it’s important what choices we make, the right choice we make, it makes things bright for us. As we start exploring the college options, the stream options the job, Career profile options we stress out with suggestions from our family, friends and what not. And easily we get influenced by others to choose some course or college for the sake of fitting in, and start following our seniors or cousins or our classmates and we forget the most important factor deciding our future that is "What suits me? ".
In most cases the most important Career decisions are made out of sheer ignorance or influence, and these decisions cannot be reverted. So its important certain decisions are made through consultation, experience and with a cool mind. So this is where Career Counselling plays a big part.



                                       Career counselling is not an option it’s an insurance!

Career counselor is someone who guides students in their journey of education, work and other aspects of life. They are experts in the education sector that guide both school, college students to make the right career moves and also professionals for career advancements and career change. They use advanced and scientifically proven tools for psychometric assessments to understand the student’s personality, behavior, choices, interests, skills and abilities. These are vital parameters for a perfect career choice for a student.
Are you confused about picking the right career? Then consult a career counselor, take for a career assessment and get a detailed report defining your matching career paths. Any student can easily step on to a wrong career path if no career counselor is involved and may, later on, regret his negligence and poor professional performance. It happens because students in their young age may tend to choose a wrong career path by getting influenced by their close friends/relatives, parental pressures and by imagining something in their mind. It is advisable to connect and seek help from a career counselor to sort out any issue regarding your career. They can offer the most relevant information for current jobs and their scopes. Apart from these, they help students to discover their true potential. One can be more confident and well informed to make career decisions after career counselling/assessment. More importantly, based on these exclusive factors, one can quickly eliminate wrong career choices while finding out the most suitable ones. Taking career-related decisions is not easy in India, considering the Indian study system. Apart from children's own career choices, encouragement of their parents, their financial backgrounds, etc. are also significant factors here. Career counselors can effortlessly manage the thoughts of both the parties by offering unbiased information about different fields of career. A comfortable ecosystem of career consulting is created to talk to parents and children about any concerns about their career decisions and they discuss about their future vision and aim to achieve in your life and then draft the most effective path through career assessment and personalized one-one discussion. One should communicate with them to explore the right streams in schools and colleges to achieve great heights in the career.
Who can Opt for career counselling?
Students must undergo career counselling to avoid any situations related to a doubtful career. By doing so, the number of years/money invested will not get wasted as well. Following are some situations when you can reach out to a career counselor. Students at these stages of their professional path can go for career counselling for a great future ahead.
1.     7th-grade students looking to select a subject for higher schooling
2.     10th-grade students looking for a suitable stream/career planning
3.     12th grade passed students unsure of which academic stream to choose for their career stream
4.     12th grade passed students searching for a right college
5.     12th grade passed students trying to find about different routes to their chosen career
6.     College students /graduates unsure about their post-graduation career choices
7.     College students who left the commencement in between due to various reasons and looking for alternate career choices
8.     Professionals looking for Career Advancements and Career change supports.
Every student wants to follow a successful career path which provides them with a satisfactory life and respectful stature in the society. However, lack of proper guidance and counselling can yield contradictory results. So go for a career counselling that offers students great insights into their personality, career choices and current job market opportunities.
Benefits of career counselling:
1. Gain confidence & clarity about all your goals, strengths, skills and abilities
2. Acquire clarity about all the opportunities (Current market demands, jobs and their scopes in future)
3. Get to select the most desirable career path (best-fit careers based on skills and interests)
4. Expect a defined & planned route of career

Kindly invest your time in career assessment /counselling and notice exponential career growth in your life. For further help check out : http://sanmarga.ischs.in







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