Career guidance is the guidance given to individuals to help them acquire the knowledge, information, skills, and experience necessary to identify career options, and narrow them down to make one career decision. This career decision then results in their social, financial and emotional well-being throughout. Throughout their professional lives, people encounter many situations where they could benefit from unbiased advice. They may be in the process of choosing a stream or a career, deciding whether or not they should change careers or jobs, re-entering the workforce, or maybe wanting to learn more about career guidance in general – a complete knowledge always helps. A good foundation begins with the basics. They come to the realization that it’s an overwhelming process, and they need to learn all about the what, how, and why of the career guidance process.
Choosing The Right Career
For people who find it difficult to realize the right career meant for them; a career guide helps them sort this confusion. There are infinite career options available to choose from, and without an expert’s proper guidance, one might stick to a few that his/her friends or relatives ask him to pursue. An informed career guide makes one aware about the scope of every career option in detail, which widens the horizon for the student. For people who think they are clear on their career paths and have attained enough clarity to work towards a chosen career option, career guides ensure that they achieve their goals without any distractions.
Realization of Making A Wrong Career Decision
Making the right career decision at the right time makes a lot of difference. For instance, one might realize that engineering is not the best-fit career option for them, after having worked as an engineer for ten years, or one might realize the same quite early in life. Either way, the person has the option of realizing where his/her true passion lies and working towards the same, or continuing working on the current one. Since changing streams and discovering something completely afresh requires a lot of planning and discussions on the scope of the new career option, it is always advisable to take guidance on choosing the right career, right from the beginning.
Career routes can be changed at any point of time and an informed choice can be made with the help of a good career guide. Many career problems are preventable with regular attention to the career path, and a time of crisis is not the best time to seek professional help. It should be an ongoing process, and guidance from a mentor is required at every step of the journey of one’s professional life.
Focused Career Route
A risk-averse student generally keeps a few career options available for him/herself. While it is not a bad route to follow, many students fall prey to career confusion. Their focus gets shifted, and as a result, they find themselves not performing up to their potential. A career guide not only helps a student decide the career route, h/she also guides the student about the path, maps his/her career, helps him/her clear the confusion and distractions coming along the way.
OBJECTIVES OF CAREER GUIDANCE
• To gain an understanding of your own interests, abilities, aptitudes and strengths.
• To develop an individual inventory of valuable career development foundation skills.
• To gain valuable career information and related job training options and opportunities.
• To become acquainted with various forms of employment and to develop job acquisition and job retention skills.
• To experience hands on activities for self appraisal purposes and for exploratory career experiences.
• To develop a tentative career and educational plan relevant to their individual interests, abilities, aptitudes and goals.
• Identify student’s qualification.
• Identify the skills and personal qualities required for their professional profile.
• Define desired location of work place.
• Identify a genuine job offer and apply for the position.
Major Milestones
- On 10th July 2014 our cell organized a career orientation programme. It was fruitful as the participated students were able to get an overview of what to look for when choosing a career.
- On 15th September 2014 our cell conducted a career counseling session which was handled by the Dept. HODs and staff in charge of career counseling in each department and 55 students participated in this session.
- On 16th July 2015 our college started UGC NET coaching class under the guidance of Dr K Pradeep Kumar, Dept. of Commerce. It was very effective to the participated students because out of 15 students,2 students qualified for Assistant Professor.
- On 22 September 2015 our cell organized another career orientation programme. It was very helpful to the participants because it helps them to determine their strengths and weaknesses and also discarded their confusions.
- On 24th February 2016 our cell organized a seminar on Cyber Security which was handled by Mr. Rajesh T. N. It was highly useful to the students because it provides an overall awareness while we are in World Wide Web.
- On 19th July 2016 Our cell conducted an orientation class on the topic of ‘National Recruitment Plan’16 ’ done by Dr. Sarun S. G. It was highly useful to the students because this programme gave valuable guidance to the students. The mission of this program was to connect the neediest with the the industries and International Recruitment Advisory bodies to have better understanding of best recruitment opportunities in order to produce the quality and employable youth in India.
- On 17th August 2016 our cell conducted another orientation programme on company secretary course. It was handled by Mr. Dhanaraj FCA. It was an informative session to the students.
- UGC NET coaching class for that academic was started in our college on 12th September 2016 under the guidance of Dr K Pradeep Kumar, Dept. of Commerce. It was highly fruitful to the students because out of 20 students who participated, 2 students qualified the Assistant Professor examination.
- On 15th November 2016 our cell organized a guidance program for competitive exams such as PSC exams. We can clearly understand the quality of this program because out of 170 students who participated,35 students got placement in various jobs.
- On 19th February 2017 our cell conducted a civil service coaching camp at Attingal Town Hall, which was done by Civil Service Academy. It was very useful to students who wishes to pursue his/her career in Civil Service Department, more over it was a fantastic experience to the campers.
- On 3rd July 2017 our cell conducted a career orientation programme with the assistance of Confidence Civil Service Academy. It was highly effective to the participants because it helps them to identify options and choices prevailing in job market and also helps to find out one or more fields of work that match their skills.
- on 13th July 2017 conducted a training program for interview preparation. It was very useful to the students because it can reduce the fear of attending an interview by the students. It was handled by Dr. Abhi T. Mathews.
- On 7th August 2017 Cyber Info Tech team conducted a technical event in our college on “ Tech Pulse”. The resource person of this event is Mr. Suresh. It was a half day session targeted on 3rd year graduate students. It was a memorizing session for the students.
- UGC NET coaching class for the academic year 2018-19 was started in our college on 13th July 2018 under the guidance of Dr K Pradeep Kumar, Dept. of Commerce. It was highly fruitful to the students because out of 42 students who participated, 2 students qualified the Assistant Professor examination.
- On 23rd July 2018 a joint initiative was taken on PSC exam orientation by the Career Guidance and Placement Cell of Govt College Attingal with Cyber InfoTech and University Employment and Guidance Bureau. We can understand the success of this program from how many participants have been placed. Out of 90 students who participated 5 participants qualified for various posts.
- On 2nd August 2018 our cell organized a seminar on Career Guidance and Career Counseling by University Employment and guidance Bureau. It was highly effective to the participants because it helps to find a wide range of options which is great for job seekers and career changers.
- On 8th August 2018 our cell or On 8th August 2018 our cell conducted a seminar on “Next Generation Book keeping”. The session was handled by Mr. Pradeep N. T. was a useful session because the students get overall awareness on next generation book keeping.
- On 3rd September 2019 our cell organized an orientation programme for Civil Service Exam under the guidance of Confidence Academy. It was highly effective because this orientation class gave valuable guidance for preparing Civil Service.
- On 22nd January 2020 Career Guidance Cell of Our college organized an orientation course on SAP, Tally and DACEASY. This session handled by Mr. Deep, EME Enterprise, Idappally, Cochin. It was a useful session because the 61 participants get overall awareness on these accounting softwares.
- Another orientation class on Tally, and Peachtree accounting applications was organized on 24th January 2020. There were 34 students participated in this class.
- On 12th February 2020,a career guidance awareness class was conducted under the guidance of Reliant Group. It was highly beneficial because the participants get an overall idea about their career, career growth etc. total of 41 students were participated in this programme.
- On 20th February 2020 another career awareness class was conducted by our cell on CA/CMA/CS.A total of 22 students participated in this programme. This session was handled by Mr. Sunil Rag from Triple 1 Academy. It was highly fruitful to the students who wishes to pursue his/her career in the above fields.
- An online training on interview preparation was conducted on 5th January 2021 under the guidance of University Career Guidance a Information Bureau. A total of 87 students were participated. It was highly useful to the participants, because it can reduce the fear of attending an interview.