Career Counselling

The very first question here is What is Career Counselling?

Career Counselling is a process that focuses on helping one understand one’s own self, as well as work trends, so that one can take an informed decision about career and education. Career Counselling helps manage a diverse range of problems such as low concentration levels to poor time management, trust issues with family to non-agreement between parents and children on which career to choose.

Why is Career Counselling Important?

All of us require career guidance at some point in our life. It helps us get insights about ourselves, our career and what we can do to improve it. Here are a few ways in which career counselling helps us:

• Helps Pick The Right Career

Career Counselors are experts at assessing your aptitude, personality, interests, and other aspects of you. They use this evaluation to suggest the best career options from all the available and relevant options.

• Helps Provide Expert Resources

Career Counselling provides access to the resources and knowledge that a career expert possesses. This knowledge of Careers, their scope and the paths to pursue them are most important from the point of view of a parent and child, since most of the times, parents or guardians do not have that kind of knowledge.

• Helps Gain Confidence And Insight

Career Counselling helps a counsel understand the hurdles in his/her career path. This knowledge helps to develop the confidence to overcome these hurdles. It is the duty of a good counselor to provide such insight and confidence to the counsel.

• Helps Change Unwanted Behavior Patterns

Students and professionals have habits that are hard to break, such as procrastinating, not keeping updated on latest developments in their chosen career paths, neglecting emotional and mental health, not trying to self-motivate, etc. A Career Counselor helps break such behavioral patterns that lead to unproductive activities, both at home and in school/college/work.

• Provides A Role-Model

Career Counselling helps students connect to experts who have enough life experiences to share. They are role models who have accomplished much, and helped people in their life. This is why Career Counselling can serve as an inspiration to those who require it.

So we asked a question to our Respondents that weather they attended any career counselling session or received any professional career assistance?

Here is the Tabular and Graphical representation of the answers we received from our respondents.

Our Research shows that out of 78 respondents a total of 50 (64.1%) respondents had attended a career counselling session out of which the majority of respondents had attended the career counselling session through School or University i.e 37 (47.4%) respondents.

28 (35.9%)  respondents have marked "No" which means they have not attended any career counselling session before.

So the next Question is for those students who had attended the career counselling sessions before in their life.

To What Extend Did the Career Counselling Session Helped ?

So we got 62 responses to this question but previous Questions shows that only 50 respondents had attended the Career Counselling session which means 12 respondents didn't read the questions carefully or they had marked Not at all in this Question.

We have taken a 5 point likert scale for this question: Representing
1 = "To Great Extend"
2 = "Somewhat"
3 = "Neutral"
4 = "Very Little"
5 = "Not At All"

The Above Bar Graph shows that 23 (37.1%) respondents which is the highest had marked 3 which is "Neutral". 17 (27.42%) respondents marked 2 which represents "Somewhat". Only 7 (11.29%) respondents had marked 1 which means that the career counselling session helped them "To a Greater Extend". On the Contrary 9 (14.52%) respondents had marked 5 which shows that Career Counselling Sessions had not helped them at all.