This document proposes a career guidance program for students in Chhattisgarh, India. It would develop psychometric assessment tools and train local career mentors to guide students. Mentors would interpret student assessments and profiles to advise appropriate careers. The program includes career workshops, one-on-one sessions, and ongoing activities. It aims to improve gender parity, education outcomes, workforce participation, and social equity by helping students make informed career choices matched to their strengths. The proposal outlines a phased program and options for career guidance alone or with additional career labs in schools.

1. CAREER COUNSELLING
PROJECT PROPOSAL 2020
TARU FOUNDATION

2. PROJECT RATIONALE
93% Indian students aware of just seven career options: What
are parents doing wrong?
India Needs 15 lakh Counsellor for 315 million students
WHY IS “CAREER GUIDANCE”
SO CRITICAL NOW?
83 Crore population lives in the rural areas which is 68.84% of
the total population of India. There are 17.99% youth in the
age bracket of 15-24 (Preparatory Workforce) and
another 11% in the 10 to 14 years (would be workforce).
With almost 29% percent of the Indian population being
“would be or under preparation” workforce and another
17% of youth in an age bracket between 25 and 34 that
“should be” in the current workforce. 45% population has
no structured way to be informed of their potential and
opportunities they have in terms of employment and skill
development.

3. OUR SOCIAL INITIATIVES
How do we impact rural youth..
I-Inspire is a 5 day skill development outbound residential training workshop for Trainers from Skilling providers
Training of Trainers (I-INSPIRE)
Conducted career guidance workshops & set up Career Labs in many schools in PCMC and other locations such as Kill Bill,
Akshara International, Dutta Meghe group of schools
Career Guidance
Provide job, self employment and skilling opportunities to rural youth using mobile app, technology & psychometrics
Kaaryam
A Youth Employability Services (YES) centre has been established in Chandrapur district in association with UNDP & State government to empower
youth by providing them career guidance and job/ skilling/ self employment opportunities through Kaaryam.
Youth Employability Services Centre

4. OUR PROPOSAL :CAREER GUIDANCE
ECOSYSTEM FOR THE STATE
Dheya, proposes to develop and implement a comprehensive Career Guidance ecosystem to
cover all students above 13 yrs of age in the state of Chattisgarh.
A. Dheya will customise and build reliable psychometric assessment tools that would be used to
generate a psychological profile of the student.
B. Dheya would assist the statein developing local career mentors as “Margadarshaks” and helping
the students access career guidance opportunities and bridge the career information gap using
mobile applications.
C. “Margadarshaks” would be trained on interpreting the psychometrics reports and the
psychological profile of the students, to guide them into right career in the world of work.
D. Dheya acting as the central knowledge and research unit will provide research information about
latestcareer,trends, occupational knowledge, job and skill opportunity information.
E. Dheya would back it up with technology, mobile apps ,information, researchand tools through an
ecosystemof Career Guidance.

5. DHEYA’S COMPETENCIES
TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS
Dheya has the state of art technology that is
cloud based and uses mobile
technology. Dheya also has a state of the
art career tracking tools hosted on the
cloud.
DEVELOPING CAREERMENTORS
Dheya’s competence is in developing
inspired career mentors from the
community who can interpret the
psychometrics and guide the youth for
informedcareerdecisions.
RESEARCHANDINFORMATION
Using community fundamentals and
technology, our research team builds data,
information and research about careers,
occupations and jobs in the current and the
nearfuture.
UNDERSTANDINGPEOPLE
Dheya is a strengths based organisation.
Our core competence lies into helping the
youth understand their strengths, using our
indigenously developed and most
powerfulpsychometricassessmenttools.

6. IMPACT YOU
CAN EXPECT
GENDER PARITY
Letting the girl child know their potential would
improve the genderparity in higher education.
OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION
Withthe “Why” of educationis linked to
outcomein the world of work ,preparedness
will be much higher.
HIGH WORKER PARTICIPATION
Good guidance and bridging the information
gap would improve worker participation.
ACCESS TOWORK
OPPORTUNITIES
WILLINGNESS TO SKILL PRODUCTIVE LABOUR
FORCE
ENHANCED
EMPLOYABILITY
BRIDGING
SKILL GAPS
EMPOWERMENT
THROUGH +VE SELF
KNOWLEDGE
SOCIAL EQUITY
ENVIRONMENT
POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH
EMPOWERED

7. OPTIONS AVAILABLE
(i) Career Guidance of 9th to 12th Class Students – Two
weeks program including awareness workshops, psychometric
assessment & one to one guidance session by senior mentors.
(ii) Setting up of Career Labs – Year long program, with career
guidance in first two weeks followed by quarterly career planning
activities and half yearly follow up sessions by senior mentors.
* School teachers can be trained as mentors to make the project sustainable
over a long period

8. PHASE 1 (1ST WEEK)
BUILDING
ACCEPTANCE
PHASE 2 (2ND WEEK)
CAREER
GUIDANCE &
MENTORING PHASE 3 (YEAR LONG -
OPTIONAL)
CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITIES
Building Education & Awareness
Parent & Teachers Education
Strengths & Interest Analysis
Career Planning & Development
Plans
Goal Setting & personal
empowerment prog
Real Life Exposure to the world of
Work
Building Achievement Habits
PROGRAMS AND
INTERVENTIONS
ALL PROGRAMS BACKED BY AN
E-LEARNING PLATFORM OF DHEYA
Career Awareness Contests &
Exhibitions
Career Guidance & orientation
Workshops
Destination & Path Setting
Psychometric assessment of
registered students

9. HOW WE COLLABORATE

10. HOW WE COLLABORATE
JOINT EFFORT FOR A LONG TERM IMPACT..
PHASE 1
Conduct special programs and workshops in
the school for parents as well as children to
build acceptance. Conduct psychometric
assessment of the registered students &
generate individual report.
CAREER GUIDANCE & GOAL
SETTING
Senior mentors from Dheya will visit the school &
conduct personalised one to one session of 15-
30 mins (with parents) for Career decision
making & Development Plan for each student
ASSIGNING SENIOR MENTORS
TO THE CAREER LAB
Dheya would assign Senior Mentors from the Dheya
Mentor community to the Lab, who will visit the school
once a quarter to conduct career building activities and
assess progress of students.
POST INTERVENTION
ENGAGEMENT DHEYA
Using the technology we can map and track
the activities of the students. We would
transfer a mobile app through a “Mentor for
life” program.
MONITORING , MIS AND IMPACT
ANALYSIS
Dheya will give access to the monitoring and MIS
dashboard for really time monitoring of the progress.
An yearly impact analysis will be compiled with the
feedbacks of parents.
RUN CAREER DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Run interventions as planned. Dheya coordinators would
coordinate with school staff and the mentors will conduct
the activities according to the individualised development
plans prepared for the students.
ORIENTATION AND STARTING
UP
PHASE 2 PHASE 3 (Optional – Only If Career Labs
to be set up)

11. ROLE OF DHEYA
Adapt the current technology, mobile
apps and knowledge tools, with an
integrated psychometrics for career
guidance of the students. Students will be
trained to work on mobile applications as
well as LMS.
TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS
Dheya would assign Career Mentors from
the current community of Mentors who
will execute the program. Dheya would
build a community of local Employees to
support the project.
ASSIGNING CAREER MENTORS
We would customise and design the
interventions and create a year long
development intervention in each school
focussed upon building aspirations and
dreams as well as capabilities pertinent to
their energies and potential.
INTERVENTION DESIGN
Dheya would build the individual
development plan for each child based on
the family background, parental
expectations as well as the strengths &
aspirations of the student.
ALIGNMENT - WORLD OF WORK

12. IMPACT WE CAN MAKE
TOGETHER
We see huge impact both in tangible and qualitative terms in this
project.
While the students would become aware of their strengths ,
talents and potential they hold.
They would make informed career choices and decisions and
would be hand held by senior mentors and groomed well through
activities.
The development plans will be customised to their requirements,
family expectations as well as their own aspirations and strengths.
Impact assessment in terms of feedbacks from parents / grand
parents as well as academic performance and willingness to
educate/ skill themselves will be done and shared.
MORE WILLINGNESS - INFORMED YOUTH
BRIDGING THE INFORMATION GAP
POSITIVE OPTIMISTIC ORIENTATION
MORE FOCUSSED STUDENTS
INCREASED GER IN HIGHER EDUCATION
FOCUSSED DEVELOPMENT
INCREASED CONFIDENCE
POSITIVE LIVELIHOODS.

13. CAREER GUIDANCE OPTIONS AVAILABLE
PHASE 1 - ORIENTATION & STARTING UP: 01 Week program per school with multiple activities by Dheya’s
Career Mentors and local representatives. Orientation workshops, parent sessions and student activities
including assessments will be done during this phase by all the registered students.
PHASE 2 - CAREER GUIDANCE & MENTORING: The intervention includes Career Orientation workshop,
Personalised one to one session of 15-30 mins (with parents), and Individualised Career decision making,
Individualised Development Plan for each student.
OPTION 1 – CAREER GUIDANCE OF 9TH TO 12TH CLASS STUDENTS COST - RS. 1800
PER STUDENT
MIN. STUDENTS CONSIDERED : 1000
L o c a l a d m i n & t r a v e l a r r a n g e m e n t s
t o b e c a t e r e d b y t h e l o c a l
a u t h o r i t i e s * W i t h i n c r e a s e i n n u m b e r s , c o s t p e r s t u d e n t w i l l
r e d u c e

14. CAREER GUIDANCE OPTIONS AVAILABLE
PHASE 1 - ORIENTATION & STARTING UP: 01 week program per school with multiple activities by Dheya Career
Mentors and local representative. Orientation workshops, parent sessions and student activities including
assessments will be done during this phase by all the registered students.
* W i t h i n c r e a s e i n n u m b e r s , c o s t p e r s t u d e n t w i l l
PHASE 2 - CAREER GUIDANCE & MENTORING: The intervention includes Career Orientation workshop,
Personalised one to one session of 15-30 mins (with parents), and Individualised Career decision making,
Individualised Development Plan for each student.
PHASE 3 - CAREER DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES : Half Yearly follow ups and quarterly career developmental
activities conducted for a day by senior mentors in the school.
*School teachers can be trained as mentors to make the project sustainable over a long period. Training
cost of teachers will be separate.
O P T I O N 2 – CAREER GUIDANCE OF 9TH TO 12TH CLASS STUDENTS & SETTING UP OF CAREER LAB
C O S T – R S . 3 2 0 0
P E R S T U D E N T
MIN. STUDENTS CONSIDERED : 1000
L o c a l a d m i n & t r a v e l a r r a n g e m e n t s
t o b e c a t e r e d b y t h e l o c a l
a u t h o r i t i e s