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Role of a Career Counselor in today's World

INTRODUCTION In current times, career counseling is a need as most of the students pick commonly known domains as their career options. Career counseling 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 counseling, an analysis can be done for students which will help them find out their interests and also their strengths and weaknesses. It 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 specialization 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 educational streams. IMPORTANCE OF CAREER COUNSELORS Nowadays many counselors prefer psychome...

Lockdown has impacted a student's Career

  INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global lockdown of all educational institutions. More than 91 percent of the world’s students are out of school, due to school closures in at least 188 countries. It has affected all the sectors and has led to an unusual interruption in a student’s learning; disruptions in internal assessments; and the cancellation of public assessments for qualifications or their replacement by an inferior alternative. It has caused not only a massive shock to parent’s productivity but also to children’s social life and learning. Teaching is moving online, on an untested and unprecedented scale. Student assessments are also moving online, with a lot of trial and error and uncertainty for everyone. Many assessments have been simply canceled. Practical classes are not running. Importantly, these interruptions will not just be a short-term issue, but can also have long-term consequences for the affected cohorts and are likely to increase inequality....