Lately, career counseling has gained wider exposure among students and parents. Until basic education like 10th grade and 12th-grade students and parents are not provided with options and their choice are made easy. However, post their students tend to get into a dilemma while choosing their career path and their future job opportunities. The rise in unemployment and distracted student’s focus towards studies has paved the way for career counseling to get its much-needed recognition. Many career path could be happening now that offers various opportunities, considering which the student might have opted for it, but, post three or four years as that batch graduate the demand for that category student in the job market would have diminished resulting in unemployment or landing in another sector job that is not relevant for their qualification, lower package, depression, in short, ruining that students career.

Thus, in order to bridge the gap and to give a clear picture of the current trends and future market predictions to students and their parents, career counseling came into existence. The most crucial feature of career counseling is that along with giving the present and future market trends the career counselors have one to one discussion with students and understand their area of interest as well as their potential and then suggest them based on their requirement. This way the student’s future job would not be a burden to them as they would be living in their passionate zone.

Job Satisfaction Turns Crucial
A few decades back, people were open to join any organization and perform any role. But, today with growing organizational demand and increasing specialization very candidate have their own preference of role in the organizations and some even stay strong in getting appointed in the particular organization they are even career-oriented. Thus, pursuing courses related to their dream job and that is suitable for their personality and aptitude level. Thus, career counseling aids in guiding the student towards their passion and help them choose the right career which would aid them in elevating their performance level and attain success.

Career Counselling Going Online
Like any other service, career counseling has also gone online with the technology up-gradation. This online consultant removes the boundary limitation and allows the students to seek advice from varied geographical regions and the scope of that particular course in the required region. Presently, pursuing higher education abroad has become a common trend as it brings various career benefits. Alongside this, online career counseling enables the students to take up the aptitude test right from their place at their preferred destination, this eliminates unnecessary travel.

Online career counseling also provides a career test that helps the experts to analyze the student capacity and based on their aptitude report and personality report and give future career suggestions based on the recommendation provided. Furthermore, online counseling also enables the students to fix their consultation with the expert they prefer through various online modes such as phone, skype, or other internet call or chat features.

With NEP 2020 introduction across the country, the education structure is expected to transform for the better. This new educational policy brings in new facilitation enabling the student to choose their preferred educational requirement right at the early schooling reducing the overall time consumption. This has also improved the future requirement of the career counsellors. Post the NEP 2020 implementation now student would be required to make their career choice earlier and the career guidance are even more crucial for these young minds.