Career counselling refers to counselling provided by career counsellors who help individuals choose an appropriate career based on their interests, skills and abilities. The main objective of career counselling is to help students pick a field that complements their abilities and skills the most.
With increasingly myriad career options rising, career counselling has become an essential part of people’s life. Students after completing their 10th are often indecisive of what to do further. This indecisiveness could be a result of social pressure, lack of parental guidance, multiple career options, ignorance of personal potentials etc., career counselors cater to these issues effectively. Although career counselling is vital to all age groups, teenagers can benefit most from it. Besides students, career counselling also caters to employees who have already chosen a career and are not satisfied with it. These individuals are redirected towards their goals and are given insight into their professional orientation. Career counselors also link students to experts who represent as models to encourage and to positively reinforce the students. Factors like life satisfaction, self-efficacy, happiness etc.are all co-dependent to job satisfaction therefore there is a lot of importance given to career counselling.