The best way to define a career is a journey. A journey of a learner which boarded from the station of education. It is a step that every individual takes to guide their rest of life in path of success and satisfaction, the jest of the word can differ person to person, the path taken to complete the journey is every individual’s decision. But the similarity is, in existence and value in everyone’s life and also in the calendar of the century.
The world is moving on the road of development and the demand of development by time has opened a lot of doors for learners in different perspective and utility, which invites individual to choose their area of interest.
Need of career counselling in today’s time
Building up career to achieve great wealth is the aim on which todays education system is working on and leading every student to acknowledge the philosophy of today’s time .The education system has been successful in their job. Today’s youth understands the important and need of building career very well. But is the knowledge sufficient?
One of the way of practising today to frame the image of success is “copycatting” others journey route. Copycatting is not an erroneous practise but one should know whom to copycat,
A lack of information leads to a wrong practise and results person keep wandering for correct path. Hence before selecting any career and method of building it, one should have knowledge of it, a generalised plan to practise the career in correct manner and reach their definition of success.
Every person is running behind success with the mind set to move parallel with others in this race , is actually copycatting each other and the outcome is no one has the correct destination.
At this point everyone needs career counselling to get the answer – Whom to copycat. Career Counselling is a type of advice given from counsellors to the students or any people to manage their journey through life, taking decision, learning and building the career stability.
Career counselling importance
It can seen as just like for health stability we prefer doctor, for mental balance we should prefer counsellor and stability in career is also a part of balanced and peaceful life. For youth career counselling is a basic need and also a good habit which everyone should follow, everyone should start their career with the first step of counselling, It shows you a way to research about your field, plans a and way to proceed in life.
Approach to counsellors/ online counselling methods
There are lot of ways you can get counselling and a guidance for your career, there are counsellors whom you can reach and discuss your interest and queries with them. They can be in your institution (school or college counsellors) or you can prefer professional counsellors.
With all these things we also have another way and easy accessible for everyone is a research on internet. There are a lot of websites for career counselling. For websites information you can prefer NCDA National Career Development Association or NBCC National Board for Certified Counsellors, it has a database of certified counsellors and reliable internet websites which has a range in topics from education to job research and employment trends which are reviewed on basis of analytical data and accurate information. The basic procedure to follow on websites is to follow the information provided on websites such as –
- Take the surveys and test instructed.
- Take an honest personality test.
- Follow your counsellors honestly and consistently.
- Go through the community question and answers.
These methodologies helps you reach out your doubts and the problems that you feel while development of your career, that’s why it is important for you to attend the personality test or other surveys honestly. The next important step is to follow the counsellors weather you get you job then too it’s important to take advice of counsellor to come up with the initial critical scenario every job has, reconnecting through theses websites mould your personality in a way that you become capable to face task and issues of your career.
Another important factor of online career counselling is the community questions and answers, people think that they have to solve their issues and they are done but these online websites allow you to such a number of issues and their solution one is facing while building the career and you have all the solution with you which may arise in future aspects of jobs and careers.
Conclusion
The importance of career counselling can be seen in above write-up, while you are stepping into your initial career counselling and research on such websites is the first and helpful step that will give you the correct direction to complete your journey of building your career. Today internet has become a powerful source to get ant information we need in our daily life searching things online benefits us to find the correct and most suitable information according to our requirement, hence for career counselling we should prefer websites and follow the core steps with honesty and consistency to give our life a new and trusted direction.
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