Kolkata > Career-Counselor
What's it all about
The Career Counsellor supports individuals in understanding their situations, so as to work through issues towards solutions. Our Professional career counselors can support people with career-related challenges in many ways. Through their expertise in career development and labor markets, they can put a person's qualification, experience, strengths and weakness in a broad perspective taking into consideration their desired salary, personal hobbies and interests, location, job market and educational possibilities. Through their counselling and teaching abilities, career counselors can additionally support people in gaining a better understanding of what really matters for them personally, how they can plan their careers autonomously, or help them in making tough decisions and getting through times of crisis. Finally, SkillGapfinder career counselors are capable of supporting their students in finding suitable placements/ jobs, in working out conflicts with their employers, or finding the support of other helpful services.
Who needs them the most
Here are five reasons you will want to get the help you need from a career professional today:
- You are a college graduate and you are still trying to get your “foot in the door.”
- You have been fired from your current job because you weren’t quite measuring up.
- OK, you are just miserable in your current job but you’re still working.
- You think you already know what you’re looking for in a job or career, but you are hitting a wall – and no, “I want to work for a non-profit organization” is not enough.
- You have amazing, creative ideas about what you would love to do, but can’t seem to get focused long enough to take the next step and do something about it.
How does our career counselor work?
Career counselors perform a range of duties, including the following:
- Administer personality and interest inventories
- Use achievement and aptitudes tests to help clients get a better idea of what they are good at
- Counsel individual who are considering a career change
- Evaluate clients educational and work backgrounds in order to help them determine what they need to do next to achieve their goals
- Advise students about what courses and educational programs they need for particular careers
- Help clients select the right schools or programs for their needs
- Help students locate sources of financial support to pay for school and other training programs
- Teach and practice jobs skills such as interviewing, resume writing, and networking
- Aid career seeker in the job search process by teaching them where to look for open positions and connecting them with job search resources
Learning outcome
Career counseling is really beneficial for students, and there are many reasons it is imperative:
1. Spot an Aptitude: Career counseling helps a student realize true aptitude. While at a junior level, most students perform evenly across subjects. Aptitude tests, conducted by counselors, bring out clearly the strong intellectual areas of a particular student. This empowers the student to make an informed decision when choosing future studies and making career choices.
2. An Objective Guide: Many times, students grow up with preconceived notions – “I must become a doctor, since my father is one”. Good counseling can quell these notions, and help the student view himself for the individual that he really is. After all, the doctor’s son can actually be more suited to, and more interested in, being a musician!
3. Evade Confusion: Often, students haven’t developed a clear idea of what they’d want to study by the time they’re due to make those choices. This isn’t necessarily due to any lack of interest; one is simply too young. Seeking career counseling leads to clarity of thought in a student, helps to identify interests, pick the appropriate subjects, and finally, make the choice of the right career.
4. Career Relation to Education: It is also likely that a student has decided on a particular career, but is not sure of how to qualify for it academically. Seeking counseling helps to put things in proper perspective – the student chooses the right higher education for the chosen career, and likewise, is able to land safely on the career track, due the interest, motivational factors and the chosen stream of education.
5. What’s Out There: Perhaps the most important facet of career counseling is to simply know what career options abound today. Say, a student has great flair for writing. It is important that the student or individual is well informed about the prospects of taking writing as a career. Lack of information on the will let the individual or student abandon his talent and intellect.
Sadly, career counseling is often overlooked by students, institutions and parents alike. It is a mistake that can prove costly, for it is sound counseling that leads to well-informed, correct career decisions!
