0The importance of career counselling are as follows:
Choosing the right career path at the right time is very important, this requires expertise, careful planning and execution at the right moment, once the time is lost it becomes tough for the individual to go back and make the changes. This process can be very tedious as it involves brainstorming, figuring out the likes and dislikes, understanding the interests and values, gauging the individuals numerical, logical ability, keeping in mind the market trends, and industry standards to make the right choice, while selecting the right career path.
Parents and their children are now more aware and are making informed decisions while planning or helping them choosing a suitable career. Parents with their children now want to understand the child’s personality types, interests’ levels and like to understand and learn about the career paths before guiding their children.
Career planning and development are two challenging terms/ when it comes to right career paths. Parents and children have to be in sync while figuring out the suitable career. Once the children reach 9th grade, most parents devote their time to reading, understanding and gathering information about the new trends and changing market conditions and industry standards. That’s when they start looking for proper career counselling and reach out to trained professionals to get the right answers. It involves finding a trained counsellor, who would not only guide them but also help them make an informed/suitable decision. This process can be very stressful, as we do have a lot of options or career paths to choose from.
A trained career counsellor identifies the right skills, interests, and talents in the candidate by using a few tools and assessments which, shows the desired results. Multiple reports get generated keeping in mind their abilities and interest’s levels this helps them prove their suitability, which can play an important role in choosing the right career paths. Planning this at the right time and getting the desired help at the correct time is very important, falling to do this at the right time can cause unnecessary stress. Making the time planning and choosing to visit a career counsellor can help many talented students find the right career path and have them pick the desired/ suitable career, which will keep them stress-free happy and provide them job satisfaction.
Many students lose out on this window of opportunity as they are preoccupied with other things, most procrastinate, and miss the bus and end up choosing the wrong career not suitable for their personality types, their abilities and talents, which lead to unnecessary stress. Peer pressure or pressure from the extended family may also cause chaos.
Providing the needed support and guidance by helping them choose the right careers requires detail knowledge of their personality types, skills, abilities, their learning styles and their thinking patterns.
Discovering the interest’s levels and gauging their potential at the right time is very important many preparatory schools are now hiring counsellors in schools and are conducting these assessments in schools to assess their readiness and help them make the right career paths. Qualified career counsellors have the ability in identifying their personality type, the career interests, career values and career paths and the skills abilities, and help in choosing the right career path suitable for a stress-free and happy life.
