Career Counselling

1. CAREER COUNSELLING
Bheem Pad Mahato
Assistant Professor
FOE IUT

2. Why CAREER COUNSELLING ?
• Students often have difficulties deciding what
their major will be, or in what direction their
career path will begin.
• Students may have already made this decision,
but find that they are not as certain of their
choice as they once were. Still others find that
they are struggling academically in their major
and may be forced to choose another.

3. CAREER COUNSELLING
• Career counselling is provided to
students to help them develop career
planning and decision-making skills,
understand labor market trends, and
make informed educational and
occupational choices.

4. Importance of Career Education and
Counselling
• Looking Forward to a Better Future
• Beginning at Home:
• Continuation of Schools:
• Vocational Success
• Choice of Subjects:
• Information for Choice
• Choice among Options

5. CAREER INFORMATION SERVICE
• Information on occupation opportunities after the
completion of the class X and class XII.
• Information on courses available after the completion
of the class X and class XII.
• Providing information on scholarships and stipends etc.
• Providing information on competitive examinations.
• Providing information on occupations suitable for girls.
• Providing information on occupations for the
handicapped.
• Occupations based on intelligence and interest.
• Apprenticeship facilities available.
• Information on training opportunities.

6. Role of the Career Counsellor
• Helping to ensure that each pupil’s curriculum is broad
and balanced and appropriate to his or her career
intentions as they develop;
• Providing a program of career education as part of the
curriculum for each pupil;
• Suggesting ways in which relevance and practicality can
be pursued;
• Pointing to the dangers of sex or racial stereotyping or
setting too low expectations;
• Helping other teachers to relate their work to local
industry and commerce;
• Searching out opportunities for links with employees;

7. Role of the Career Counsellor
• Ensuring that work experience for pupils is properly
matched to individual’s needs;
• Using the available information technologies to the full;
• Maintaining readily available information on further and
higher education, training and job opportunities and
seeing that it is used well;
• Working with Careers Service to provide individual
counselling to students and their parents;
• Working closely with the Careers Service – monitoring the
progress of each pupil during their transition from school
and whenever possible subsequently.

8. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
THE CAREER COUNSELLOR
• To form and organize the school counselling committee.
• To set-up an educational and occupational information
center in the school.
• To give orientation talks to students regarding guidance
services available in the school.
• To give orientation talks to class X students and their
parents with regard to the electives available in the senior
secondary school.
• To give orientation talks to class XII students with regard to
university and non-university courses, apprenticeship
schemes, etc.
• To collect and display educational and occupational
information.

9. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
THE CAREER COUNSELLOR
• To disseminate occupational and educational
information through talks, group discussions, film-
shows, etc.
• To prepare news albums.
• To arrange career talks by experts from different fields.
• To organize career days, career weeks, career
conferences etc.
• To arrange individual discussions with students and
parents for giving them educational and occupational
information.
• To notify employment opportunities available to
secondary and senior secondary school students.

10. FACTORS DETERMINING CAREER
CHOICES
• Psychological factors
• Physical factors
• Job values
• Economic factors
• Familial factors
• Contingent factors

11. FACTORS DETERMINING CAREER
CHOICES
• Social factors
• Individual differences
• Educational factors
• Decisional factors
• Problematic factors
• Philosophical factors
• Chance factors

12. Career Exploration Process
Dynamics of Career
Exploration
Dimensions of Career Exploration
Why do people explore? To gather information, to construct meaning,
to solve dilemmas and problems, to reduce
confusion, uncertainty, anxiety, stress, to test
self and environment hypothesis
What for do they
explore?
Goals of exploration
Where do they explore? Extent of self and environmental exploration
How do they explore? In a systematic and intentional mode or in a
fortuitous and unconscious manner

13. Career Exploration Process
Dynamics of Career
Exploration
Dimensions of Career Exploration
How much do they explore? Frequency of exploratory behavior and amount
of information obtained
Directness of exploration? Number of options explored
Focus of exploration
What type of factors facilitate or
inhibit career exploration?
Personal
Developmental
Relational
Academic
Social-Economic
Political ...
What occurs after exploration takes
place?
Improvement of self-concept
Vocational maturity
Self-esteem
Vocational identity development
Differentiation of career interests

14. Seven Cs
of Career
Planning
Clarity of Purpose
Commitment
Comprehensiveness
Collaboration
Coherence
Coordination
Competency

15. Thanks