BRIGHT SCHOLAR SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

Career counselling is an essential factor for identifying the real potential and guiding
students towards a right career path. Students need to know the importance of career
coaching and right guidance before they are going to choose an academic stream after
taking the board exams. Career counselling will be helpful choosing a career goal,
planning and give a direction to students for a better future ahead. Read here
significance of career counselling and proper guidance for school students –

What is Career Counselling?

In current times, career counselling is a need as most students pick commonly known
domains as their career option. Career counselling is an effort for students’ career
guidance right from their school about the available career options as per their interest
and stream of academics.Through career counselling, an analysis can be done for
students which will help them find out their interests and also their strengths and
weaknesses.

Why is career counselling important for high school students?

Career counselling should be done in the school itself for class 9-11 students
specifically because these are the levels where students choose a particular stream as
their specialisation and also, it will be helpful for them to decide the stream they
should opt for. This is because many students are not satisfied with the stream they
choose and tend to change it; this happens in absence of proper guidance about
options available as per their interest and different education stream.Nowadays, many
counsellors prefer psychometric tests to analyse interests of students because
generally, students are confused between their various interests but these
psychometric tests help figure out students’ capabilities towards each of their interest.
With career counselling, students would be able to know –

 Their aptitude and interests

 Strengths and weaknesses of a particular interest
 Making choice of stream for education after class 10
 Career options available in market as per their academic choice
 Career options available as per their interest
 Some alternate career options if they decide to change their stream in future

How can students get career guidance or career coaching?

Career coaching or counselling does not only require professional counsellors but it
can be done as mentioned below –
 Be your own career coach –Who knows better about your interests, your hobbies,
your personality and your academic interests than you. You can analyse the below-
mentioned facts to find your career goals and help yourself in achieving them –

 Your interest
 Academic profile
 Career options available as per your interests and education qualification
Also, seek suggestions from your friends and parents to get better advice about career
options.

Write down all these points in a notebook and filter out the best suitable option for
yourself.

Seek advice from your parents –Your parents have been the primary coach for your
education and career life. They got you admitted in best suitable kindergarten, primary
school and now when you need to decide the stream choice and career, they should be
the first one to advise you and help you decide the best alternative. After you, your
parents know the best about your aptitude and capabilities, so they will be able to
guide you best in making education as well as a career choice.
Proper guidance from your teachers – The third person after you and your parents
who will be able to help you decide the best alternative to a career is your teacher.
You have been handled, guided and improved over the years by your school teachers.
So, they have complete knowledge about your capabilities and also, teachers have the
best idea about the different streams of education that students can choose after class
10th
A career coach in your friends or your elder siblings – Your friends or your
siblings know your interests because you can open up before them without an
uneasiness which you may feel with your parents or your teachers. Your elder brother
or sister will be the best to advise you on the matter of choosing a career because they
themselves have gone through the same situation and have faced the same doubts
regarding the career choices. And your friends who will be making career choice
along with you also are seeking guidance for their career choices, therefore; they will
be helpful by sharing the same career guidance tips with you.
Conclusion: Students, as well as their parents, should begin career planning right
from class 10th because, after this level, only a particular stream could be followed and
career options will be limited to their choice of the stream only. The stream choice
also depends on career planning and interests of students.
 CAREER COUNSELLING
Choose a stream you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life
It is important to choose a job you love. Hence it is important to reflect upon what you like
and dislike, so that you can choose the job that will suit you the best.

Read the Activity (in column 3) and put a score only in one box per row depending on
the degree of your liking for the activity. There is no right or wrong answer. You are
doing this for self-awareness. Hence, do it truthfully.

RIASEC: Self-Awareness Questions

Dislik Slightly Neithe
S. Quality e
No
Activity Dislike r Slightl Enjo Total
like y
. Enjoy y
nor
dislike
0 1 2 3 4
Realistic Creating tangible
R1 things using my
hands and
body
Realistic
R2 Working with
gadgets
Realistic
R3 Relentlessly
working towards
my goal
Realistic Working with
R4 plants, animals,
mud, water,
wood, metal, etc.
in the outdoors
Realistic Being systematic
R5 – following step-
by-step
procedure
Investigative
I1 Being suspicious
(doubting what
appears)
Investigative Analysing a
I2 situation or
thing for its pros
and cons
Investigative
I3 Making rational
decisions
Investigative
I4 Being curious
Investigative
I5 Noticing things
and events
 around me
A1 Artistic Using my
imagination
A2 Artistic Thinking outside
the box
A3 Artistic Being emotional
A4 Artistic Being expressive
A5 Artistic Being brave and
daring
Social Being kind to
others and
S1 helping people in
need like poor,
disabled, old,
sick,
underserved, etc.
Social
S2 Waiting for
someone or
something
Social Relating to
S3 other’s feelings
and problems like
my own
Social Working in
S4 harmony with
others as a team
with dependency
Social
S5 Forgiving people
who cause me
harm
Dislike Slightly Neither Slightly Enjoy
S. Quality Activity Dislike like nor Enjoy
No. dislike
0 1 2 3 4
Enterprising
E1 Socializing with
others
Enterprising
E2 Taking risks
Enterprising
E3 Being
enthusiastic
Enterprising
E4 Imagining
everything will go
in my favour
Enterprising
E5 Convincing
people
 Conventional
C1 Working with
mind, precise
calculations
Conventional
C2 Being precise,
methodical and
detail oriented
Conventional
C3 Following rules
Conventional
C4 Working hard
and sincerely
Conventional
C5 Being courteous
to others
Your Occupational Personality Score: Realistic — Involve work activities that
include practical, hands-on problems and
solutions. They often deal with real-world
Realistic = (Total / 120)x100 materials, and do not involve a lot of
paperwork or working closely with others.
Investigative — Involve working with ideas,
Investigative = (Total / 120)x100 and require an extensive amount of thinking.
These occupations can involve searching for
facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Artistic = (Total / 120)x100 Artistic — Involve working with forms,
designs and patterns. They often require self-
expression and the work can be done without
Social = (Total / 120)x100 following a clear set of rules.
Social — Involve working with,
communicating with, and teaching people.
Enterprising = (Total / 120)x100 These occupations often involve helping or
providing service to others.
Enterprising — Involve starting up and
Conventional = (Total / 120)x100 carrying out projects, leading people and
making many decisions, risk taking, dealing
with business.
Conventional — Involve following set
procedures and routines, working with data
and details more than with ideas. Usually
there is a
clear line of authority to follow.
Which Career Pathway is right for you?

(Results of the RIASEC test)

R = Realistic S = Social
These people are often good at mechanical These people like to work with other
or athletic jobs. Good college majors for people, rather than things. Good
Realistic people are… college majors for Social people
• Agriculture are…
• Health Assistant • Counseling
• Computers • Nursing
• Construction • Physical Therapy
• Mechanic/Machinist • Travel
• Engineering • Advertising
• Food and Hospitality\ • Public Relations
• Education
I = Investigative
These people like to watch, learn, analyze E = Enterprising
and solve problems. Good college majors These people like to work with others and
for Investigative people are… enjoy persuading and and performing.
• Marine Biology Good college majors for Enterprising
• Engineering people are:
• Chemistry • Fashion Merchandising
• Zoology • Real Estate
• Medicine/Surgery • Marketing/Sales
• Consumer Economics • Law
• Psychology • Political Science
• International Trade
A = Artistic
• Banking/Finance
These people like to work in unstructured
situations where they can use their C = Conventional
creativity. Good majors for Artistic people These people are very detail
are… oriented,organized and like to work
• Communications with data. Good college majors for
• Cosmetology Conventional people are…
• Fine and Performing Arts
• Accounting
• Photography
• Court Reporting
• Radio and TV
• Insurance
• Interior Design
• Administration
• Architecture
• Medical Records
• Banking
• Data Processing
•