Career counseling and guidance

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 Is it important to know exactly what you want to do
with your life?
Teaching is an art. Rajeev Ranjan - www.rajeevelt.com
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Career Counseling
 What you want to do is key to finding work that
matches your skills, knowledge and personality.
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Do you know yourself?
 Your ―Self‖
 Your Strength
 Your Wish
 Your Ambition
 Your Interest
 Your Passion
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Do you know yourself?
 Your Aptitude
 Your Attitude
 Your Ability
 Your Skills
 Your Resources
 Your Limitation
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Student’s Life Circle-
 Academic Excellence
 Race to get good grades
 Societal Pressure
 Peer Expectations
 Competitive and cut-throat environment
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Student’s Voice
 What is important for you in your life?
 What is your career plan?
 What is a perfect job? How do you define it?
 What are your worries, interests, fears, and desires
for your career plans?
 Where you would like to be 5 years from now?
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What do you want ? Where do you wish to reach
in next 5, 20, 15 and 20 years?
 ―Get a better job‖
 ―Make more money‖
 ―Gain a general education and appreciation of ideas‖
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Career
 What is ―career‖?
 What is job?
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Career
―Career" as a person's "course or progress through life
(or a distinct portion of life)― (OED)
―The individual’s lifelong progression in learning and
work‖ (Watts, 1998).
―Careers are unique to each person and are dynamic,
unfolding throughout life. Careers include how
persons balance their paid and unpaid work and
personal life roles‖ (Canadian Career Development
Foundation, 2002).
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Career
A career is a lifelong journey that includes your
education, interests, jobs, occupations, recreational
activities and volunteer work. Throughout your career
you will gain many different skills, work in many
different jobs representing many different
occupations, and have changing interests including
recreational activities.
http://nj.jobseekersguide.org/difference
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What is Career?
A career is a long-term professional journey you may determine
based on your passions. It is the path you embark upon to fulfill
your professional goals and ambitions. You may require a
certain level of education or training to achieve these goals.
Individuals pursuing careers often have set salaries with benefits
such as stock options, retirement plans, pensions and bonuses.
They also gain benefits beyond money, such as personal pride,
work satisfaction and self-worth.
A career might last for your entire life. You could hold numerous
jobs under many employers in your chosen industry that you
progress through during your career. (https://www.indeed.com/)
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What is Career?
Career: A job you do for others, while a career is what
you do for yourself. Career professionals are also
working for the paycheck (let’s be honest, who isn’t?),
but they are more driven to seek out opportunities for
advancement in the workplace. These individuals tend
to strive for the next promotion, look for more training
and generally aim to impress. People with a career
orientation tend to have a long-term vision for their
professional future, set goals and enjoy healthy
competition with colleagues. (Melody Wilding- Forbes)
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What is a job?
A job is work you perform to earn money to support your basic
needs. It can be full-time or part-time and may be short-term.
You might earn an hourly wage or a set paycheck rather than a
salary with benefits. You might need to learn certain skills
connected with that role, but not all jobs require a specialized
degree or advanced training.
You can also define a job as a short- or long-term contract between
an employer and a worker. For instance, a company hires a local
contractor to complete an office renovation job. They agree upon
payment terms, and the job ends once the project is complete.
(https://www.indeed.com/)
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What is a job?
Job: A job provides you with pay, benefits and perhaps some
social perks. It’s primarily about earning that paycheck. People in
this category are typically more invested in their lives outside of
the office. Work is merely the way they afford to do the things
they love. They focus on their family, friends and hobbies more
than their professional pursuits. If you no longer see your job as
a place to learn, gain experience or increase your connections, it
could be a sign that you have a ―Job‖ orientation towards your
work.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/melodywilding/2018/04/23/do-you-have-a-job-career-or-calling-the-difference-matters/
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Career
 What is occupation?
 What is ―calling‖?
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What is an occupation?
 An occupation is a collection of job titles that share
job duties, skills, and training. People who work in an
occupation do similar tasks and need similar training.
For example, Maria and every teacher in all the high
schools share the same occupation: secondary school
instructor.
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What is Calling?
 Calling: Those who experience their work as a calling
are most likely to feel a deep alignment between their
vocation and who they are as a person. They feel a
personal and emotional connection to their work.
They are enthusiastic, have a sense of purpose and
are willing to work harder and longer to make a
contribution. Unsurprisingly, this group is often the
most satisfied with their professional situation.
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/melodywilding/2018/04/23/do-you-have-a-job-career-or-calling-the-difference-matters/
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How to turn a job into a career?
Continue learning and developing
Always aim to enhance your skills and knowledge. If you know
what career path you want to pursue, figure out what expertise
and experience you need to get there. Once you are aware of
the requirements, seek to develop your qualifications whether
through practice in your current job or through formal training,
online courses and education. When trying to determine which
skills will benefit your career most, look to successful
professionals in that industry. Ask yourself what their strengths,
talents or accomplishments are. Reach out to individuals with
similar careers, and ask for their advice.
. (https://www.indeed.com/)
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Career counseling-Assumptions
 People have the ability and opportunity to make career
choices for their lives. The amount of freedom in
choices is partially dependent upon the social,
economic, and cultural context of individuals.
(UNESCO)
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Why do we need career counseling?
 Career counseling is a tool which can be very effective
in allowing students to realize their true potential and
find work that aligns with their natural inclinations.
 https://careeredge.bentley.edu/
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Why do we need career counseling?
 Career counselling facilitates the learning of skills,
interests, beliefs, values, work habits, and personal
qualities to enable each participant to create a
satisfying life in a constantly changing work
environment (Krumboltz & Worthington, 1999).
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Why do we need career counselling?
 Career counseling is not a quick fix; it is a process
which takes time and understanding as the counselor
needs to get attuned to the capabilities of each
student.
 https://careeredge.bentley.edu/
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Why do we need counselor?
 Counselors are great at teaching students to make
relevant connections between their interests and
possible career paths. (Henry Kingston)
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Career Counseling
 What are the broad factors which determine better career choice?
 1. Clear understanding of self, aptitudes, abilities, interests,
ambitions, resources, limitations, and their causes.
 2. Knowledge of the requirements and conditions of success,
advantages and disadvantages, compensation, opportunities,
and prospects in different lines of work.
 3. True reasoning on the relations of these two conditions.
Source-Edward Free, MA, Career Counselor, UC Berkeley, Career Center
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Find out your psychic
Kindly consider following two mindset-Carol S Dweck Research
1. ―In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their
intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a
certain amount and that's that, and then their goal becomes to
look smart all the time and never look dumb.
2. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and
abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and
persistence. They don't necessarily think everyone's the same or
anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get
smarter if they work at it‖
 ("Stanford University's Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset and Education". OneDublin.org. June 19, 2012. Retrieved November
26, 2019.)
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Find out your psychic
 Do you (a) agree (b) disagree (c) Partially Agree ( d)
Strongly agree (e) Don’t know what to say with point
no-1?
 Do you (a) agree (b) disagree (c) Partially Agree ( d)
Strongly agree (e) Don’t know what to say with point
no-2?
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Essential requirement for good career choice
 An Individual who believes in-
People who believes in Growth Mindset, CAROL
DWECK States, ―they believe that even basic talents and
abilities can be developed over time through
experience, mentorship, and so on. And these are the
people who go for it. They’re not always worried about
how smart they are, how they’ll look, what a mistake
will mean. They challenge themselves and grow.‖
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An Individual who ―thinks about all of the growth
potential in following this opportunity, even if it’s out of
your comfort zone.‖
An Individual who believes in ―value passion,
dedication, growth, and learning, not genius‖
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An Individual who believes in-
 ―Your basic qualities are things you can cultivate
through your efforts…everyone can change and grow
through application and experience.‖ Qualities like
intelligence are a starting point, but success comes as
a result of effort, learning, and persistence‖
 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Stanford Professor Carol Dweck
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 An Individual who ―focus on learning and
development rather than failure and actively pursue
the types of challenges that will likely lead to both
learning and failure‖ (hbr.org)
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Write your own style/ way to handle
 What happens when we stuck somewhere or fails in a task?
 How do you handle your failure and success?
 What are the things you worry about?
 What is reaction of people of fixed mindset and growth
mindset?
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Check yourself
 What happens when we stuck somewhere or fails in a task?
What is reaction of people of fixed mindset and growth mindset?
 If you react to a setback defensively, wanting to hide
it, wanting to make up excuses for it, you’re in a
fixed mindset. And instead, ask what can I learn from
this experience that can help me go forward next
time? In the fixed mindset, you’re so focused on the
outcome. Will I look good? Will I live up to my
reputation? Will people think I’m brilliant?
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 How to you perceive failure and success
 Students with a growth mindset will often perceive
the identical challenge or setback in an entirely
different light—as an opportunity to learn. As a
result, they respond with constructive thoughts (e.g.,
―Maybe I need to change my strategy or try harder‖),
feelings (such as the excitement of a challenge), and
behavior (persistence).
 www.gatesfoundation.org
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Learner or Non-Learner
 Is success About Learning – or Proving You’re Smart
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Learner or Non-Learner
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Do you have these essential characteristics:-
1. Acknowledge and embrace imperfections.
 Hiding from your weaknesses means you’ll never
overcome them.
2. View challenges as opportunities.
 Having a growth mindset means relishing opportunities
for self-improvement.
(By Saga Briggs)
 https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/develop-a-growth-mindset/Teaching is an art. Rajeev Ranjan - www.rajeevelt.com
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3. Value the process over the end result.
Intelligent people enjoy the learning process, and don’t
mind when it continues beyond an expected time frame
4. Reward actions, not traits.
Tell others when they’re doing something smart, not just
being smart.
5. Place effort before talent.
 Hard work should always be rewarded before inherent
skill.
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Do you think so ?
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Do you think so?
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Mindset-Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset- By Saga Briggs
The power of believing that you can improve | Carol
Dweck
We should listen Carol Dweck Ted Talks-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X0mgOOSpLU
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Good Resources- Adopted from-
 https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/difference-between-a-
job-and-a-career
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/melodywilding/2018/04/23/do-you-have-a-job-
career-or-calling-the-difference-matters/#54629d00632a
 http://nj.jobseekersguide.org/difference
 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/career
 https://development.asia/explainer/how-career-guidance-can-improve-job-
prospects-young-people
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Rajeev Ranjan
Principal /Teacher Trainer
School Education-
BHU, Varaansi & English and Foreign Languages University,
Hyderabad
Website:-
www.rajeevelt.com
www.rajeevranjan.net
Email .Id : principalrajeev@gmail.com

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