LIFE SKILLS & VALUE EDUCATION – CLASS-X – UNIT- 5 Career Counselling The Art of Making the Right Choice

To understand what career counselling is and why it is necessary, we need to first understand what a career is. The word career is used many times to mean job, work, occupation, and so on. However, it means much more than that. Mostly, career is referred to as the sequence of jobs held by a person throughout their professional life. In fact, a career includes everything related to your professional growth, including your choice of profession, advancement, and the various avenues you explore of that particular industry.

Your single career could include a variety of different paths. Some common careers that you would be familiar with are doctor, lawyer, policeman, teacher, hairstylist, etc. Within this same career, a person may choose to specialise in a particular area. For example, in your career as a doctor, you may choose to specialise in paediatrics or cardiology, or you may remain a general physician all your life. Besides this, you may remain a lawyer by qualification, but instead of fighting cases in court you may choose to write books about law or become a law professor. Some important terms related to career are:

Career education: It refers to the information that is needed to plan one’s career development and facilitate one’s preparation for the work life.

Career development: It refers to improving your skills which helps in preparation for, entry into, and progression in one’s area of work.

Career counselling includes activities which are carried out by career counsellors in a variety of settings (school, college, independently) for the purpose of stimulating and facilitating career development for an individual. These activities include assistance in career planning, decision-making, and adjustment.

 To understand the best way to help you, the counsellor talks to you in detail about your interests and hobbies and tries to assess your potential, personality, mindset, and overall understanding of what you want your future to be like. The key objective of career counselling is to realise your true potential so that you can live a productive, gratifying life ahead.

The main goals of career counselling are:

1.To enable you to have a good understanding of self-your key strengths, weaknesses, motivations, expectations, etc.

2. To get a thorough understanding of what you want, why you want it, and how you can go about it.

3. To facilitate the process of arriving at the right career decision.

4. To help you execute your career decision into achievable, positive goal-directed actions.

5. To enhance your overall happiness, success, and life-job satisfaction level.

WAYS TO IMPLEMENT

It is very important to go to the right career counsellor. You can do so by:

Doing your research: Before you finalise a career counsellor to go to, do your research using the Internet, to check their experience and reviews given by other clients. You can also take recommendations from other friends who have gone for career counselling.

Requesting your parents and teachers for help: Do not try to do everything alone. Take suggestions from your parents and teachers on how you should proceed.

Always doing the assignments given by the counsellor diligently: Once you have started the 4. Giving honest answers on the test assessments given by the career counsellor: If you give the career counselling process, be diligent about it and never take any aspect of it lightly. Your future depends on it.

Giving honest answers on the test assignments given by the career counsellor: if you give the answers which you think sound correct your results won’t reflect the real you. Be very honest about your aspirations, intentions and interests with the counsellor. Always keeping your parents in your confidence: If at any time during the counselling process about your aspirations, intentions, interests with the counsellor. you feel uncomfortable or unhappy with any aspect, speak up about it with your parents and Counsellor if required. This process is useless if not done with 100% sincerity.

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