A career is a lifelong process, which started when we were born but influenced by many factors like our interests, values, abilities, personality, our background and circumstances in which we live. Every person has to choose a career according to his/her interest, but wrong decision may lead to the wrong path.

1. Career counselling
What is a career? A career is a lifelong process, which started when we were born but influenced
by many factors like our interests, values, abilities, personality, our background and circumstances
in which we live. Every person has to choose a career according to his/her interest, but wrong
decision may lead to wrong path. Sometimes people may took wrong decisions regarding their
career, which will affect their future outcomes. Therefore, career counselling is very essential for
every person to achieve their desirable goals and find a successful future.
Career counselling is a process to find out and to understand about yourself to make a good career
and healthy life decisions. It is also the interaction between the practitioner and the client by using
good communication skills and mental theory. For good career development you have to decide
what type of job you want to do when you complete your studies. Actually career development
started mostly after your graduation. It is not an easy task to choose a better career because
throughout your life you will change, situations around you will change but you continuously have
to focus on your career.
The main goal of career counselling is to provide you better knowledge and skills for future career
and life decisions. The key emphasis is to helping the client make career related decisions and deal
with career related issues. Career counselling involves the character development, skills, life roles,
and temperament of a person. Career counselling can be appropriate for anyone, like juniors,
seniors or freshly graduates etc. for this purpose a career counsellor will provide more accurate
information and may guide better about the best career option, so the person may be able to make
better life decisions. Who is a career counsellor? He or she may be a person who guides and tells
the person or a client for making good life decision regarding their career or to choose the best for
their future.
A career counsellor may help a person to find out who you are and what you want from your life.
He first know your thoughts, ideas, feelings and your passion for your career, then organize them
in a better way. He also helps you to locate resources for career information and provide you the
ways for achieving your desired goals. There are many kind of people who do not know what they
want to do in their lifespan and give the following statements like: “I have no idea what I want to
do in my life”, “ I want to know which job suits me best”, “I have no idea what I want to do once
I graduate” etc. These type of issues may always arise with every person regarding career. Some
people may face conflicts with their family regarding choosing a career like, if a person want to
became a doctor, sometimes his family may not be agree due to financial circumstances, so he has
to divert his mind regarding career. Sometimes a family want their youth to become an engineer
but his interest may be in arts or in interior field. For all these purposes, career counselling is a
vital step for a healthy future and successful life.