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Vision
To offer non-commercial program that will lead to
improve students in academic, career awareness,
and social/personal development through working
with all stake holders... by way of
• Education Guidance
• Motivating for study
• Planning for study & examination
• Career Guidance
• Counseling (1:1 and class room)
• Soft skills enhancement
• Follow up and measurements
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Objectives
• To develop awareness and acceptance for
talents and abilities of student community
• To understand weakness and plan to
overcome those in stipulated time frame
• To encourage to be independent taking
responsibility for themselves
• To make informed choices about their lives
(Education & Career) and follow through on
• To identify and explore opportunities
• Seeking right education at right school & college
• Choosing compatible job choosing right employer
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Phases

Childhood Young Age Old Age
• Most beautiful phase • Start of dreaming • Looking backward
• No responsibilities • Forming image • Assessing past
• No worries, No pain • Knowing a world • Sharing the wealth
• Love from everyone • Completing study • Handing over
• Lots of Fun, Play • Doing job & earning • Health issues
• Lots of ice-cream • Forming an attitude • Want to be guide
• No health issue & • Marriage & settling • Departing others
dieting, No pressure • With 3 generations • Departing yourself

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3 stages
3 Stages of
Education

Elementary Middle /Jr. High School /
School High School College
• Elementary : Students to acquire knowledge,
attitudes, and interpersonal skills to help them
understand & respect self and others
• Middle : Students to make decisions, set goals
and take necessary action to achieve goals
• High : Students to understand safety & survival
skills and growth
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Guidance content
Personal and Social Development
• Understanding self in global community
• Respecting individual and group differences
• Applying personal safety skills
Academic Development
• Applying skills for educational achievement
• Transitioning skills
• Developing & monitoring educational plans
Career Development
• Applying career exploration & planning skills
• To obtain information about training/education
• Readiness & improving skills for better jobs
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School
• Start thinking about
– What are your liking & interest?
– What is your ability? (Strengths & weaknesses)
– Your motivation? What you want to be? And why?
• It’s a age of developing personality
– Develop habits & hobbies
– Managing the health (healthy food & exercises)
– Get connected & get along with friends & families
• About school & study
– Are you within top 5 in any of the activities?
– Created competition or one of the crowd?
– Score the highest in SSC, its turning point!
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College
• Start following & shaping your dreams
• Answer? What you want to be? And why?
• Enhancing strengths & improving weaknesses?
• Choose right branch & the best college/university
• Developing habits, attitude and personality
• Know about yourself, distinguishing like & dislikes
• Start planning the activities, study hard & smart
• Be passionate, develop a plan, deliver the best
• What all you need to get there?
– Compile data, Listen/share the thought and decide!
– Firm up your mind, action to track your dreams!
– Seek for higher study at the best global university
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Higher Education
• Be global
• Adopt cross culture keeping fundamentals intact
• Aim for the highest possible education
• Seek admission for the best college/ university
• Seek the best
• Manage routine, events, circumstances, finance
• Learn conceptually, fundamentally and innovatively
• Get connected well, keep healthy relationships
• Deliver the best & be proud
– Study on latest technologies (White paper, Project)
– Participating in college events
– Execute activities within legal framework
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Career
• Be unique
• Mostly 1st Job decides life long path so be selective
• Live on hopes & dreams however be practical too
• Prove yourself to get 1st call for critical assignments
• Seek the best
• The best of the assignments
• Participation in decision making
• Lead roles & higher responsibilities
• Deliver the best & be proud
• Follow etiquettes, set the ethical practices,
• Be dependable, honest, sincere & have integrity
• Be collaborative, expert, energetic, deliver the best
quality in time as committed
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Preventing new ideas
•I am comfortable (amid the chaos)
•I know this – it is predictable
•I know what is expected of me
•I have a vision of a stable future
•I have a routine
•This is just another new idea, to come and go
The Stick The Carrot
Accountability A Vision of a Better Way
Job In-Security Seeing that it Can be Done
More Pressure Acknowledged Curriculum
Situation Measurable Results
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Question

Where to Begin?

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Critical steps
• Self assessment
• Career exploration
• Pathway planning
• Start early - Talk about various career choices
• Know their abilities & interest – Assess their
abilities & watch their interest
• Understand the changing realities of work
• Teach to explore all destinations - within country
& overseas OR science, technology,
engineering OR school – college – employment
• Investigate the specifics of the career choices
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What you want to be

Chef Masonry Painter Sport Teacher Media Journalism TV-news TV-Finance

Advisor Stock market Finance Banks Accountant Library Lawyer Quality Consultant

Satellite Mech Mining Steel Power stn Hardware Software Space Civil

Doctors Nurse Diet Fitness Pathologist Medicine Pharma Beauty Radiologist

Police IAS Railway Military Pilot Navy Social NGO Peace
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Giving directions - actions

Vision without action is merely a dream
Action without vision just passes the time
Vision with action can change the world
- Joel Barker

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Stake holders

Student

Employers
Global situation, Parent
Influences & relations

Community
(Friends & School,
relatives, Speakers, Teachers
SN Sites)
Institutes
(Counsellor,
Business Partners)
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Unlock the key

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Travelling the path

Who am I? Who would help?

Where I How to
want to be? seek help?

Where am I What to learn
going? to be there?
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Steps

• Take pen & paper, introspect honestly; discuss
Know with parent, friends & teachers to know yourself
yourself

• List high level options & choices
Gather • Find & compile structured information & explore
Information

• To evaluate strengths, weaknesses,
SWOT
opportunities and threats for all the options

• Make a choice, Consult parent & friends
• Make 3 plans A as main and B & C as fall-back
Decision
Making • Develop a plan, Pursue & Execute
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How do u decide?

Abilities
+ Aptitude
+ Interest
+ Personality
+ Motivation
= Career Choice

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Evaluate yourself
Criteria Parameters
Quotient Memory Intellectual Emotional
Financial Constraints Need Well placed
Influence Self Parental Friends &
relatives
Ability Sustain Response Quick
pressure to change learner
Personality Attitude Culture Value
Traits Communication Leadership Stability
Excitement Passion to Enjoy to Liking &
learn study Interests
Body Thin Normal Builder
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Evaluate yourself
Criteria Parameters
Nature Entrepreneur Management Slave
Assertive Aggressive Happy go
lucky
My world Social Dreamer
Disciplined Stable Dynamic
Creative Routine
Comfort Workaholic Leisure Smart
level working
Liking Art Commerce Science
Location In country At overseas

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How much do we know?
Much of what we could know remains hidden….
•Aspirations, intentions & dreams
•Desires for services
- - - - - - -Known-•Steps taken
--- -
•Steps haven’t taken
Unknown •Risk factors that affect
achievement and attainment
•Constraints students are facing
•What support can be provided

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Awareness

Many of stake holders are unaware
of how critical following skills
Goal setting and planning, compiling,
analysing and decision making
Working using those leads to a huge
rewarding, and successful life….
Goals give us our bearing and point
us in a purposeful direction
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Holland’s Hexagon
Doer, Skilled,
Concrete
Conventional, Practical Thinker, Analytical
Organizing Things Ideas, Math, Science

Enterpriser, Persuader Artistic, Imagining
Outgoing Creating

Social, Helper, Educational
Service oriented people
• The greatest predictor of job …a personal satisfaction
• People to match personalities with their occupation
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Personal attributes - Know yourself

Energy Energise Edge
Attribute, Health, Dreams, Attitude, Team Aptitude , Ability
Liking & interest ,Nature, Player, ,Skill, Management,
Life style, Commitment, Delegation, Teaching ability
Self Motivation, Flexibility, Interpersonal
Consistency skills, Stability

Execution Etiquettes Ethics -
Values
Family support, Ability to Self discipline, Value, Character,
close successfully, Well planned, Believes, Religious,
Reliability Organising Trustworthy
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Career attributes - Know yourself

Energy Energise
Deep willingness to excel Respect in society
Fun & Pressure Making a difference
Need & availability (Job Recognition
security),Travel Connecting with people
Edge Execution
To gain Knowledge, Great opportunities -
Enhances algorithmic & Within country & abroad,
Logical Sharpness Cost, Earning good money
Hot careers, Career trends
& growth, To contribute
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Risco & Duffy findings
• Most important work values
– Work enjoyment & Interest in the field
– Job security
• Least important work values
– Having free time
– Working without close supervision
– Family expectations
• More weightage
– High anticipated earnings
– Making a difference

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Cycle
Execute your goals

Set your goals

Know your abilities

Your upbringing
Enhance your skills

Supportive? Map to your interests
Influential?
Know your style
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Basic divisions

SSC All Subjects

HSC Art Commerce Science

Admin C.A.;C.S
Graduation officer
Engineers Medicine
ICWA

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Career
ChoicesInterest
Goals
Planning

Skills Salary

Preparation Education

Putting the Pieces Together

Career Goal
• A career goal will guide you into doing
what you want with your life rather than
just drifting into a job
• Why to conclude & plan about it?
- A career goal may help you discover
career possibilities that you wouldn't
have thought of otherwise, so why to
limit your future?
- Think–share–discuss–conclude-plan &
execute
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Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?
– Helps focus to do What, why & when?
– Is it for Living – contribute - excel –
recognition – enjoy? Or all? &
– When? At which phase of life?
– It can be a specific domain such as
medicine, engineering, education, art,
commerce, management or space?
– Specific job as doctor or engineer or a
teacher?
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Career Goal
• I want to
– do what I want!
– be on my own!
– be entrepreneur & grow a big business
– live comfortably life without botherations
– earn lot of money so as not to work after
40 for survival?
– work for social cause after 40?
– Be happy doing routine 5 days 9 to 5 job
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Timing
• What is right timing to plan for
• Education
• Career
• These both are tightly coupled
• Dependant on each other Your
• During all 3 stages Interests?

• Lower–Middle–High school / College
• Middle school is a perfect time to explore
interests seriously & choose the course
• During college begin reviews investigating
career choices & direction
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Planning
• Know yourself - What is your
Aptitude
Attitude
Interest
Primary & Secondary Skill
Career possibilities, and job trends
• What do you want to be?
• What types of careers fit your
attributes? And attitude?
• How do you prepare for the career?
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Aptitude
• What is your aptitude?
– A competency to do a certain kind
of work at a certain level (talent)
– Can be physical or mental
– Can be determined by Verbal,
Numerical subtests & is suggested

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Attitude
• What is your attitude?
– Entrepreneur, Managerial, Labor
– Assertive or Aggressive
– My world, Social, Dreamer
– Disciplined, Stable, Dynamic
– Creative, Routine, Happy go lucky

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Interest
– What do you like to do? Think
experiences you have enjoyed.
– Which activity do you like study,
research, religious, social, or sports?
– List activities enjoyed in past four years
– Evaluate interests, What did you like?
– What challenges were offered?
– Which skills do you need to excel in
those activities?
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Skills
• What are your skills?
–Make a list activities or volunteer
work you have participated in your
school, religious, social, clubs, or at
organizations
–Evaluate school, volunteer work, or
leisure experiences
–Make a list of skills you have
demonstrated while executing those,
your comfort level and liking
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Career + Skills
• After assessing your interests and skills,
determine the relationship between
skills, interests and possible careers.
• Do research on types of careers
• What types of careers fit your skills and
interest?
–Use the Occupational Handbook to
locate a career
Occupational
Handbook
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Career Plan
• To think strategically next steps to
accomplish goal.
• To create a career plan listing
activities needed to accomplish a goal
• It needs to compile various attributes
like skills & interests, maps careers to
talents & attribute and what skills and
training you need
• Suggest Fortnightly/Monthly review
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Preparation
• How do you prepare for the career?
– Most important is selecting A
School/College
– Course in high school
– Later Grades & Class rank (results
of your exam)
Above points determine if the best of
college / university will admit you
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Education
• Find out what high school and/or
college classes are important to
the field of interest
• Enquire how much education is
required for their career
• What education is required for
your chosen career?
Education
Requirements

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Explore
• Ask questions to adults about their
jobs. Be happy you asked & answer.
• Compile the data (or ask yourself)
– What they enjoy most about their jobs
– What they enjoy least.…and
– What skills someone must possess to
be successful in that occupation
– What training needed to improve the
skills so as to be successful in the job
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Career Choices
• Information on different careers can
be found at various websites
• Google it or find by Wiki

Career
Choices

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Career Trends
• Find out career trends and options
• Work through various websites and
find out careers of your interest,
salary information, etc
• You may check compatibility taking
the Work Quiz, aptitude needed for
specific job, personality test,
• Check the result, introspect for
improvement & bring compatibility!
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Salary
• Explore the salary information
• Check are you paid to your worth?
• This judgment is critical
• May be you are
– Under paid (Find out reasons & analyse)
– Over paid too! (May be a retention policy of
organisation for you, again find it out)

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Education World
• To learn fundamentals
• To be in top merit list
• To plan study appropriately
• To prepare time table for study & exam
• To get discipline and execute the plan
• To be positive & motivated
• To be friendly with all
• To live with spirit of goal

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Work World
• Understand to succeed in the work world
• Understand expectations from the
supervisor & deliver more than expected
• Seek feedback & improve continuously
• Build trust, transparency, sincerity,
quality & try to do better than others
• Try to be the best in 6 E
–Energy, Energise
–Execution, Edge
–Ethic & Etiquettes
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Interest
• Try to take up online/offline interest
assessments & determine if those
are aligned to education & job

Interest
Assessment

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Jobs People Do
• You must have heard about known
people doing particular jobs
• Explore various jobs people do & related
data like salary using website search
• Learn about what people do at work and
how they succeed making a world
beautiful place for them & others
What Do
They Do?

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Lifestyle
• Mostly your first job decides the domain
of your career so be choosy about it
• Evaluate a job if that requires you
– To move on a regular basis? Short distance
or long distance?
– Away from the family?
– Working during night hours?
– To many hours of a day?
– Working on week ends?
• Check 3-4 aspects of your lifestyle that
are important & weigh it accordingly
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Read
• Find the books on careers matching
your interests & abilities guide
appropriate
• Many publications can provide you
with information about careers that
you may never have considered
• Search various websites

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Talk
• Visit with your counselor about your
interests and abilities.
• Find out if your school offers tests or
interest inventories that can assess
your skills and interests.
• Some schools and counselors also
have computer software programs
that assist with career exploration

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Test
• Visit with your counselor about your
interests and abilities.
• Find out if your school offers tests or
interest inventories that can assess
your skills and interests.
• Some schools and counselors also
have computer software programs
that assist with career exploration

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Analyse – Pros & cons (Sample)
Engineering Graduation at 21
Large no. of fields & opportunities
Good scope in service as well as business
Service Income is limited
Business has its challenges
Medical Respect in society
Good earning for specialized doctors
Specialisation is getting MUST
Too long to complete graduation
Commerce Ahead in service industry too
Good Scope from middle scale city to big
Sometime need to advice out of way deeds
Moderate income
Above statements are just as a sample & not a views or advice
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Analyse – Pros & cons (Sample)
E & TC Basic Engineering, Vast scope
Good development in Taiwan & Japan
Electronics Industry yet to grow in India
Computer Good scope, salary & opportunities
Its not engineering
One can learn post engineering by added cources
Mechanical Logical mind gets developed sharply
Recently stagnant growth/ recession is observed
Civil India growing, huge scope in infrastructure
development
Huge investment needed for own business

Above statements are just as a sample & not the views or a advice
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Higher Education
ME Offers opportunity in the field of teaching
Deep research is missing
M Tech Excellent academics
Foreign/Overseas exposure is missing
M.S. Excellent exposure to the world
Costly
MBA Great opportunity globally if done from
renowned, the best top 10 colleges
Simple things made difficult? Liking?
Recommended to consider higher education
Above statements are just as a sample & not the views or a advice
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To evaluate course
S No Variable Weighta Example Engineering Medicine Management Commerce Art
ge
Absolute Net Absolute Net Absolute Net Absolute Net Absolute Net Absolute Net
Rating rating Rating rating Rating rating Rating rating Rating rating Rating rating

1 Gaining Knowledge 7% 10 0.7 8 0.56 6 0.42 5 0.35 4 0.28 4 0.28
2 Enhances algorithmic & 7% 10 0.7 9 0.63 6 0.42 4 0.28 3 0.21 2 0.14
Logical Sharpness
3 Great opportunities - 6% 10 0.6 8 0.48 6 0.36 8 0.48 5 0.3 3 0.18
Within country & abroad

4 Earning good money 7% 10 0.7 6 0.42 8 0.56 8 0.56 5 0.35 2 0.14
5 Respect in society 5% 10 0.5 5 0.25 7 0.35 6 0.3 3 0.15 2 0.1
6 Travel 4% 10 0.4 4 0.16 8 0.32 5 0.2 3 0.12 7 0.28
7 Fun & Pressure 7% 10 0.7 5 0.35 4 0.28 8 0.56 6 0.42 7 0.49
8 Cost 7% 10 0.7 6 0.42 3 0.21 7 0.49 7 0.49 8 0.56
9 Connecting with people 6% 10 0.6 6 0.36 3 0.18 6 0.36 6 0.36 7 0.42
10 Need & availability 7% 10 0.7 3 0.21 8 0.56 7 0.49 2 0.14 2 0.14
11 Personal attributes 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
a Liking & interest & nature 9% 10 0.9 7 0.63 6 0.54 4 0.36 3 0.27 3 0.27
b Aptitude / Ability / Skill 9% 10 0.9 8 0.72 5 0.45 6 0.54 5 0.45 6 0.54
c Attitude 6% 10 0.6 5 0.3 5 0.3 4 0.24 2 0.12 2 0.12
d Health 6% 10 0.6 6 0.36 5 0.3 6 0.36 6 0.36 6 0.36
e Dreams 7% 10 0.7 8 0.56 4 0.28 4 0.28 6 0.42 2 0.14
100% 150 10.0 94.0 6.4 84.0 5.5 88.0 5.9 66.0 4.4 63.0 4.2

Above numbers are just as a sample & not the views or a advice
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SWOT analysis- case study 1
Student in 8th Std, wants a good college for HSC, later to do engineering at IIT
Strengths Weaknesses
Good in academics, passed with Parent too busy to guide
more than 85% marks till now Health issue - Sometimes feel
Motivated & dreamer,
Stood first in school since last 2 Parent to guidance
weakness
Want the best of the education
years No To check health &TV,
time for sports, diagnose
Well informed Planning & Time management to
Good relationship with teachers entertainment, exercise
Good relationships include exercise
Good connect & friendships
Motivated for higher study
Opportunities Threats
Staying in Pune opportunity
En-cash the ToTry for the bestfor college if SSC
compromise but not to be
Can Life time benefitsin good &
get admission for smart score nervous & burdened
is not good
college hard efforts for a year
for HSC Might have to delink with friends
Take it eazy but seriously
Would get connected to intelligent
Seek advantage of being in city
group
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SWOT analysis – case study 2
Student in 11th Std from town, to do engineering in Pune
Good in academics, passed with Parent can not guide however can
more Motivated &marks till now
than 90% dreamer, support
Stood first in school since
Good relationship with teacher No time for sports, TV, city
To get admission in
begining moderate parental
To keep entertainment, exercise for
Seek for good courses
Good relationship with teachers
influence entrance exam in city
Not in city
Motivated for higher study own
Study to learn & be on your Planning & Time management
Worried to adjust city life
Its dream for parent so good
support
Can En-cash the opportunity
get admission in good To Not to be nervous college if
compromise for & burdened
Life time benefits for smart &
college for engineering HSC/CETitscore butnot good
Take eazy is seriously
hard efforts for a year Seek guidance, make good
Would get connected to intelligent Might not get adjusted to city
friends to cope up city life
group college life so worried
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SWOT Analysis – case study 3
Student in engineering, wants to do MS in USA
Good in academics, passed with Parent can not support
distinction complete information
Compile
Spent lot of timeloans & aids TV,
To check for sports,
Motivated for higher study
To maintain good relationship entertainment Time management
Planning &
Its dreamprofessors &so good
with for parent friends Worried to adjust foreign life &
Understand foreign life
support culture
Possibility of Home sickness
To reduce parental influence
Make global friends thro’ SNS
Can get admission in good Might have to compromise if
university for PG score is not good
Would compile Pros & Cons for
To get connected globally Unclearto be nervous & burdened
Not procedures
universities of various countries
Would seek excellent job Might Takeget adjusted to foreign
not it eazy but seriously
opportunities fall back plan too
To prepare Seek guidance, Seek clarity on
culture & life
To make good friends globally visas & procedures

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Checklist

It is essential to maintain a checklist
Purpose is
– To track the progress quantitatively
– To keep consistency in tracking &
measurement
– To enhance reliability of outcome
– To compile the data systematically
– To decide

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What’s Your learning style?

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Most important summary
Analyse, Map

The High Five
Yourself & Situation

Know the situation - To Decide 3 options,
Explore, Search, Main and 2 fall-back
Trend, Compile Data Plans

Know yourself Ability,
Execute & review at
Aptitude, Attitude,
every milestone
Skills Interest, Need

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Education - Do & Don’t

•Know yourself deeply •Be exited or confused
•Dream high & big •Be jealous or egoistic
•Collect data •Be frustrated
•SWOT analysis •Follow corrupt practice
•Overcome weakness •Get cheated
•Firm up the goal •Try for short cut
•Plan to achieve •Compromise at less
•Remain motivated
•Efforts & sincerity
•Build strong foundation
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Steps
Know Know Career List what all
yourself options is required
Ability Medical Clear vision
Aptitude Engineering Determination
Attitude Govt Services Willingness
Aspirations Management Discipline
Personality Finance Good College
Motivation Media, Sports Planned study
Discuss/ Draw Action Execute & Be
Share/Decide Plan successful
With yourself Activities Track
Family & Friends Duration Review
Great people Start & end time Change
Internet Tracking Go ahead
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Career Development Assumptions?

Everyone has the ability to
make work choices

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Work is a contained part
of people’s lives….

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The world of work is
predictable….

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An individual will make a
decision early in life..

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Career counseling is short
term and focused in
information giving…

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Preparation
Familiarize different types of schools.
Find out what characteristics to look for
when selecting a school.
College Public Religious

Athletics
Private

Trade Academics
School

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Wow Careers!
• See what people "on the job" say about
your dream career!

WOW
Careers!

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Resources
These Internet sites can provide career information and were used in this
presentation
• Ready, Set, Go http://mappingyourfuture.org
• Middle School Students Start Off Right
• Career Test http://www.kids.gov/
• BLS Career Information
• Job Star Central http://www.mncareers.org/
• First Gov for Kids
http://www.stpius-x.com/
• Careers 2001
• Career Info Net http://www.iseek.org
• interest assessment
• Jobs People Do http://www.whatdotheydo.com/
• What Do They Do?
• Wow Careers! http://www.wowcareers.com/
• Career Education
• Interactive Learning Network http://www.hesc.state.ny.us

You may use Google Search & Wiki Information
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