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INTRODUCTION

CAREER COUNSELLING

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 Counselling 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 Counselling 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 can I expect?
Your Career Counsellor WILL:

  • Help you figure out who you are and what you want out of your education, your career, and your life.
  • 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.
  • Help you identify the factors influencing your career development, and help you assess your interests, abilities, and values.
  • Help you locate resources and sources of career information.
  • Help you to determine next steps and develop a plan to achieve your goals.

Who is a Career Counsellor?

The Career Services staff member assisting you holds a masters degree and has expertise in career development theory, counseling techniques, administration and interpretation of assessments, and career information resources. Career Counsellors have masters degrees in Counselling or Career Counselling.

Your job search/ career attainment process is also a critical aspect of your career development, and therefore, Job Search Advising and Career Counselling are intertwined. Your Career Counsellor is also fully trained to assist with all aspects of your job search.

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Significance Of Career Counselling

With increasingly myriad career options rising, career counselling has become an essential part of people’s life. Students after completing their 10th are often indecisive of what to do further. This indecisiveness could be a result of social pressure, lack of parental guidance, multiple career options, ignorance of personal potentials etc., career counselors cater to these issues effectively. Although career counselling is vital to all age groups, teenagers can benefit most from it. Besides students, career counselling also caters to employees who have already chosen a career and are not satisfied with it. These individuals are redirected towards their goals and are given insight into their professional orientation. Career counselors also link students to experts who represent as models to encourage and to positively reinforce the students. Factors like life satisfaction, self-efficacy, happiness etc.are all co-dependent to job satisfaction therefore there is a lot of importance given to career counselling.

Online Career Counselling Tools For Assessment

There are various standardized tools for assessment used by various counselling centres. Depending upon the client needs appropriate Psychometric tests are chosen to evaluate the client’s Interest, Aptitude and Personality. Assessment tools like, Wechsler Intelligence Scale and few more are the most used in India.

Career Counselling through Biometrics

DMIT (Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence test) is the latest and most trending way of mapping a person’s brain. In DMIT the fingerprints of the client are taken using a scanner, then a report is generated that gives complete details of the client’s personality, strengths, weaknesses and potential. Research suggests 85% accuracy for this approach. It is considered more effective than any psychometric test. counselling done on the basis of fingerprint reports give a clearer picture to the students to choose a career options based on their abilities and skill sets. In India, Hope4Best.com is the largest DMIT and career counselling center with 108 branches all across the country.