Key Features of Career Guidance

Today, a lot of students do not receive a proper career guidance. And the others believe that it is a waste of time and money. Such people either choose a career against their interest or just run after the trending one. I wish somebody can tell them how important it is to seek a proper career guidance for their future. Proper advice from an experienced career counselor can help avoid taking wrong steps.

Key Features of Career Guidance

Key Features of Career Guidance

Some career guidance features that can help you are:

Education

Education

During schooldays, it is not difficult for you to choose elective. But, while choosing a right university and college, you often get confused. Enrolling in a right educational institute is important to improve the chances of employment in the future. Therefore, students must seek advice of counselors. These counselors know the challenges students face when choosing a college and university.  By analyzing the academics of students, counselors list down the institutes along with information about admission procedure, available courses, research work, etc. 

Goals

We all have short-term and long-term goals but achieving them sometimes becomes difficult. Perhaps, it is due to improper or no guidance at all. When I finished my studies, I wanted to work as a network administrator in company and I didn't have the knowledge to get into that field. So I sought the help of and advisor.

Goals

He suggested me the following:

• Get all the information about network administrator profession
• Talk with friends or anyone who is in that field already
• Search and join the institute that offers good training for becoming a network administrator
• The counselor divided my goals into different steps and prioritized them accordingly.

These steps are my short-term goals and becoming a network administrator of course is my long-term goal.

Planning

Planning

Planning and pursue a career for a long time is not easy. It's better to visit an experienced career advisors. The knowledge and experience career counselors hold, can help in getting on the right track that leads to career building. Just follow procedures suggested by therm. At first, they will suggest you to do self-assessment to know the areas of your interest. Based on that, counselors will look for learning areas and job options available for you. Finally, making a decision is all up to you because counselors only  provide guidelines to set objectives.

Skills 

Skills

The only way that can make you stand apart in the job market is your skills. There are many types of skills and having all of them is impossible. By speaking with an experience counselor, you can find ways on how to have them.  He or she will help yo in building decision-making, risk taking, and leadership skills. The counselor will suggest the type of skills you need to improve and how to proceed the right way.

Interests

Interests

Let's say, you are a graduate in Information Technology and looking for a job.  And you can't find one due to some reason. May be, that job is out of your interest. Advice from counselor can find what profession exactly match with your interest. If you are good at drawing, then you can become a professional painter or graphic designer instead of IT professional. With a series of questions and computer assisted guidance, counselors identify interest of candidates. Based on the score, they provide you job options as per area of interest. Because interest plays an important role in how much you are satisfied with work, it helps in finding yours.

Values

Values

Job advisors play an important role to build must-have work ethics in person. For example, professionalism, dependability, mutual respect, work dedication, risk taking, etc. They also explain  how work ethics help to boost productivity and improve your performance. Values represents characteristics of candidates such as confidence for decision-making, coordination with team member, etc. Values in career counseling improves job exploration choice and adjustment.

Vision

Vision

A career vision statement can help you in planning what you wish to achieve in the future. You can be able to set goals and decide where you want to be in the next five years. In short, by creating a vision statement, you can envision your career at a particular stage. It will also enable you to build a thought process and work according to it. Further, you will have inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to proceed ahead regardless of the problems. More importantly, a vision statement can help you identify whether your career is progressing or not, or you are unhappy with it. A career advisor can help you in creating a vision statement for your career that can give you a target and support in staying focused.

A career guidance is a platform where you can solve queries and get quick advice from the experts. It also helps to plan entire study as per your interest. A series of sessions like aptitude training, personality building, etc. can enhance interest and motivate aspirants to find a suitable job.