After important milestones in education each one of us faces this question ‘what next’ after class 10th, after class 12th and after graduation. Whenever you need something in life you yourself decide “what to choose” and “what not to choose” for example food, clothing, house, car, accessories almost everything and every day but when it comes to choosing your career! Why you simply follow others without knowing the in and out of that career option?
We all know that choosing a career and moreover a right career option is so important for an individual because his or her whole life depends on it. Nowadays we could clearly observe that people are not happy with their jobs and even if they want to start something of their own as a small business or startup but many of them actually fail and finally what we think the only option left is to do what is available at the moment as there is no better option left.
NEED FOR CAREER COUNSELLING
In countries like India where people are still dependent on their parents even after they are 18+ of age, so at first stage and every stage of your life your parents will have some expectations from you because for them you are the one they love more than anything else in this entire world, due to which they see every successful being in you whether its an engineer, doctor, actor, government officer and almost anything that you could expect.
A Career Counselor is professionally trained that could identify and understand the hidden potential within a student to analyse the entire personality, aptitude, IQ , time, resources, competition, and various other parameters to finally provide the best career option that is available to help the student to achieve success in life and always feel happy about the career option that will spread happiness and peace all around which would be way more better than ruining your life for just money and nothing else.
WHY IS CAREER COUNSELLING IMPORTANT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS?
Career counselling should be done in the school itself for class 9-11 students specifically because these are the levels where students choose a particular stream as their specialisation 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 interest and different education stream.
With career counselling, students would be able to know –
- Their aptitude and interests
- Strengths and weaknesses of a particular interest
- Making choice of stream for education after class 10
- Career options available in 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: We need to realize the importance of career counseling as there are a strong need and scope of career counseling for students as a job of a Career Counselor or a career consultant is not to give false hopes to students to choose any career just like that.
