The career counseling process is a detailed analysis of your personality, academic background, skills, abilities, and future potential. The career counseling process helps an individual to unleash the true potential and move in the right career direction, based on the skills and background. We receive many questions on the process and students & parents are very curious to know the career counseling process, so we have decided to explain this in detail through this blog. We have already written an article on why do you need career guidance and assessment, so you can refer here for more details. Let’s deep dive into the career counseling process.
The process has 4-dimensions and we will explain all of them in detail:
1) Online Psychometric Test (duration 45 minutes)
This is the first step in the career counseling process, where the test will assess you on three parameters such as Interests, Personality, and Emotional Quotient.
Interest
Interest is the seed of passion. So, you will have to constantly explore your interests, and eventually, you will find the best fit. This is the objective of this assessment as well. Understanding your interest will help you identify the right areas to work on and what options you should explore. Interest assessment explores your interests across multiple career options to find the best fit which shall keep you engaged and excited.
Personality
Each individual is unique and they have a certain personality or behavioral traits which they should understand. If you understand your personality traits, it becomes easy to identify the right career options. Understanding your behavior and personality traits can help you to focus on the right opportunities and areas to work on. You can have any type of personality such as investigative, enterprising, etc. and this will help you to match the right career opportunities.
Emotional Quotient
EQ is more important than IQ in today’s world and this has been proved scientifically by many researchers and scholars after studying the career paths of many successful individuals across the globe. Understand your emotional quotient can actually play a vital role not only in your career but also in your life. This will definitely be a great starting point of choosing a career option
GRIT Scale
Apart from the above 3 mentioned areas, we also find out the GRIT of an individual, because this has also been scientifically proved that GRIT takes over talent in the long run. There is a very famous psychologist, Angela Duckworth originally designed this and written the book “GRIT” on this topic, with the examples of diverse individuals and their stories.
2) Skill Assessment
This step in the career counseling process helps an individual to introspect and understand the skills which he/she possess. With the help of this assessment, you can work on your future capabilities and bridge the gaps. Additionally, this also gives an indicator of which career options to target.
3) Academic Background Analysis
This is very important for almost all the students. So if you are scoring well in all your courses or in some courses, you will have to understand your interest in the right courses. Because liking a course can be completely different when we talk about making a career in a particular course/domain. This step in the career counseling process can actually help you to focus on the right academic areas and will also help you to strike a balance in your academics.
4) Family Background Analysis
This dimension is also extremely important to understand in a student’s life. For most of the students, we have observed a big influence or push from the parents when it comes to choosing a career. This is because of several reasons, so we take care of this aspect as well. This step in the career counseling process helps an individual to actually build a lot of confidence and focus in life. When all of them are on the same page, then with the parent’s support, a student can really do wonders in life, because parents are always the starting point or decision-makers in almost all the cases.
Our idea is to follow a holistic approach while counseling students. After carefully analyzing all the above-mentioned areas, we give our conclusion and the best fit for a student or professional, in whatever stage they are. So, n.o one factor can influence the decision. A good career counseling process can help you to avoid mistakes, and move in the desired direction with the right focus and full of energy and when you work hard for something, you will definitely achieve success. Additionally, this also gives peace of mind, to focus on the right areas and ignore the noise around you. Your success in a career depends on making the right choices at the right time.
Mentorship Program
Apart from this career counseling process, we also run a mentorship program, for the long term. Under this program, we attach an expert coach with a student on a one-on-one basis and students will get constant guidance from the coach. The program will help you understand the right strategies to follow for your academics, extracurricular activities, knowledge about the different careers, and updates on what’s happening in your desired career option. This also helps to constantly challenge yourself and improve whenever needed. You don’t have to wait for mistakes and later rectify them. The program starts from 1-year membership to any length of time required by the students or professionals. This constant guidance can actually help an individual to make the right calls at the right time. For details on this program, you can refer here.
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