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How career guidance helps students figure out their paths

Imagine travelling on a highway with no signs of direction. Won’t it be impossible to navigate through the many diversions on your way? Similarly, while deciding on our career, proper guidance acts as our roadmap to success without losing sight of our goal. With tight competition in every field of study and profession, it has become imperative that you tread with discretion, planning and expert help. Career advisors provide you with an arsenal of resources and see that you have attained your goal. In short, they would put you on the right path. Here’s how career guidance helps students on their journey to success:

Do a reality check of your potential: When we think of undertaking a responsibility, we first determine whether we have the required skill set, attitude and aptitude for doing it well. However, it is quite difficult to judge our capabilities objectively and impartially. To understand your chances in a specific field, a second and an expert opinion is of enormous help as it offers you a clear picture. A mentor will put your doubts to rest, answer your queries and point out what will work and what not. For example, if you are pursuing a commerce stream, would that naturally equip you to crack the CA foundation exam? Or, do you have the acumen to be a data analyst? This is where your career advisor would come up with a sound assessment of your aptitude and abilities and tell you which area would be your best fit or how you can improve in a certain field to realise your dream.

Fix the goal: After understanding your strengths and interests, your next task is to set your goal. Consider you want to embark on a voyage but you have not thought about your destination. You would certainly not want a radar-less journey that might toss you in a whirlpool of confusion. To make your journey meaningful, enriching and rewarding, you must aim for a target and work towards it. Yes, it is not as easy as it sounds. The most difficult part is to envision your goal and your reason to set out for it. Based on your motivation, potential and interest, your career consultant would help you understand your need and purpose, and help you determine realistic and achievable goals. For example, if you are majoring in computer science but want something creative where you can apply your skills, your advisor might suggest you with an array of exciting opportunities like app developer, game strategist, or even cinematographer.

Plan to success: As the saying goes “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, you must have a plan in place for everything in life, more so when structuring your career graph. Start by asking yourself how good you are at planning and how about giving that a boost? Your career guidance advisor will know exactly where to intervene, fine tune your plan and set it rolling. They’ll discuss your goal, weigh the alternative routes and frame an action plan. You’ll be surprised at how meticulous, comprehensive and well-knit your plan will look after your advisor modifies it. Planning is not about taking a decision and then diving in, but consists of small steps or goals that will gradually take you towards your bigger goal. A professional career guidance counsellor has a multitude of strategies in their repository. Something that perplexes us, makes us feel helpless and at a loss is what the career advisor excels at. So, why not avail of professional help and enjoy the rich dividends throughout your life!

Select the best option: You have interest and knack for the life sciences and you want to build your future on this path. However, you are not too keen on pursuing medicine but are considering other options like bio-chemistry, genetics, nutrition etc. Each associated branch requires a different take on your knowledge of the subject, and to decide which stream would do justice to your passion for the field as well as offer career prospects is challenging. Rest assured, your career advisor can help you with this. Remember, they will assess your potential, understand your abilities, skills and motivation, and then offer you the perfect solution. If you are wondering how they will do that when you cannot, here it is – they have in their kitty various career packages that they carefully glean over the years after intense market study, correspondence with renowned institutions and professionals across industries. Hence, your career consultant can chart out your career journey in a well-defined manner, provide you relevant inputs about career development programs and select the best option for you.

Career guidance is highly effective in preparing you for future opportunities. You’ll get inside information of various industries, brush up your knowledge of the latest courses and career fields, gain invaluable tips and techniques to streamline your plans and remain focused on your career objective. You’ll have an edge over the others in achieving your goal and staying ahead of the competition.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

ReachIvy is a premium education and career advisory that helps aspiring students get accepted into top tier educational institutions globally. We have successful admits at MIT, Columbia, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, London School of Economics, University of Michigan, Oxford, University of Chicago amongst others.

Vibha Kagzi, Founder and CEO, ReachIvy, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also pursued courses at the University of California, Berkeley, the London School of Economics and the Indian School of Business.

Our global team of counsellors have also acquired their degrees from premier institutes and are passionate about sharing their experiences with students worldwide.