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Monday, September 17, 2018
Interestingly-Uninteresting Facts about the Indian Education, Jobs and Skills
Parents refuse to give 40 minutes for Career Planning for their children, most of them suffer and struggle for 40 years in their professional lives.
Career Destination- Only 3% of people strategise destination (career) before starting their academics (education) journey. Rest 97% decides their career after finishing their academics.
Underdog Employment- Job holders are either undervalued or are not in right place and that surprisingly figures to 94%.
Lethargic Students- There is an uncaring reply from school students about their career choice and they carry with the attitude of “let’s see what happens”. 92% of them let their career hang on destiny and are having an impractical career goal or are impersonating the messed up crowd.
Untrained- Training had been mater of an unnecessary affair for the Jobseekers as they see the easy and shortcut to get to work immediately so they never wish to get proper training. Almost 88% of the professionals are reluctant to do the job training and choose to be unemployed or do some fictitious job training which leads to the piling on of a huge unskilled workforce.
Masters’ without Aptitude- 82% Masters' or Postgraduate degree holders are the victim of erroneous academic degrees where they find No Return on Investment against their unemployable degrees.
Unnatural Life- Fresh Engineers and Management graduates are densely found in Call Centre/BPOs’ where they are compelled to do jobs in odd shifts. Almost 76% of B.Tech and MBA degree holders are waking in night and sleeping during the daytime, sharing seats with their twelfth pass colleagues; trapped in a quagmire without any career or future prospects.
No Studies- There are 74% of the Schooled and 88% of the College students doing many things except their studies.
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Career Planning: Secondary School
Most college decision-making takes place between 10th and 12th grades. It's time to narrow down your educational choices and choose a future path. Use this time wisely to explore career opportunities and narrow down your choices.
Continue to do well in school
Keep up on your school assignments. There is simply no downside to working hard in school and getting good grades. Good grades open the door at many colleges.
Stay on track with schoolwork and plan ahead for deadlines. Spend more time studying the subjects that are the hardest for you. Use Study Organiser with Progress Meter tool to organize your subject study as per difficulty level and get consistent marks in all the subjects. Also, you can view your real-time preparation in 3 colours Green (doing well), Yellow (lagging behind) and Red (difficult to pass) with expected marks.
How you perform in secondary school lets employers assess what type of employee you'll make. Plus, you will learn skills in school that will last you a lifetime.
A good work ethic in school represents a good work ethic in life.
Explore some of the more interesting courses that your secondary school offers
Once you identify some career areas that interest you, take a look at your secondary school curriculum to see what classes may help in your career decision-making. Interested in journalism? Try a language class. Interested in medicine? Take biology class.
Taking a class can re-affirm your interest in the field and build on your skills. If you find that the class is not for you, you still have time to change course and explore different career paths. The secondary school provides the perfect time to "sample" what's out there before you need to make a commitment.
Take classes now to help establish a direction for the future.
Think about what kind of job you would like to have someday
Think about what you would like to do with your life after secondary school. Would you like to work in a busy office, or do you prefer the outdoors? Do you like being around lots of people, or are you more of a loner?
Complete our Aptitude and Work Attitude Assessments to see what careers may best fit your personality and interests. Choosing a career that you like and you are good at will be a big part of your future happiness.
A good career choice "fits" your attitude and interests.
Gain experience
Get an early start on career exploration by trying out a part-time, volunteer or apprenticeship opportunity. These are great ways to get some "real world" experience in a field that interests you. These types of on-the-job training give you a small taste of what you may face day to day should you pursue full-time work in that field.
Plus, you'll have the opportunity to meet professionals who do what you hope to. Ask questions, find out the challenges they face, and learn from their experience.
Ask the employed persons what they like and dislike about their job
Talk to some people you know to find out if they are satisfied with their job.
Many factors go into job satisfaction-job location, daily stresses, colleagues. Prioritise the top 10 things you want from your professional life and choose a career that you genuinely like to do, not just something that will make you a lot of money.
The more informed you are, the more prepared you'll be when you start your career.
Visiting colleges
Visiting colleges while you are in your secondary school, can help you pick the ones you like best.
You will meet a lot of people on a campus visit and have the opportunity to talk to them. Gather as much info as you can about what kind of college experience you can expect, so you are well informed when it's time to make your final decision about where to go.
Compare colleges
Are there a couple of colleges you are interested in attending? Can't decide which one you like best?
Compare the colleges side by side, including the percentage of applicants accepted at each school, the admissions criteria, the cost, and other details. This simple snapshot gives you a good sense of the bigger picture.
Find out admissions requirements
Am I on Track? Find out if you meet the college's admissions requirements.
Once you've narrowed down the list of colleges you're interested in, complete an application for each. Make sure you know each college's deadline and follow the instructions on the application.
Set aside time so you can be thorough, and pay attention to detail. It's important that you complete your college applications accurately.
Consult your Career Education Advisor if you have questions about which test may be a better choice for you.
Talk to your parents about school and your future plans
According to a recent study, less than 20% of students talk to their parents about their school day. After spending all day in the classroom, you may just be too tired to rehash it all again at home.
But parents have experience that you don't. They can help you look at a situation more clearly and provide support as you problem solve. And if your parents will play a role in your college choice or contribute money toward your education, keeping them involved in your thought process will allow them to prepare emotionally and economically.
Parents are a great supporter of important decisions.
Parents as career counselor Vs Career Counseling Professional
The Career Advisor or Education cum Career Counselor Vs Parents as Career Counselor holds a thin line difference where both the parties see the students’ future in their own perspectives. When a professional career counsellor assesses a student and gives results on scientifically derived results such as S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Acceptable, Realistic and Time-specific) career objectives with the help of most authentic Aptitude Assessment tools, while on the other hand parents don't want their ward to get rid of the comfort zone. And this is rampant in Indian parents because of lack of awareness about the World of Occupations, Career Building Processes, most importantly their child's innate (inborn) talent! (9 types of inborn talents are derived from Dermatoglyphics- 1. Verbal-Linguistic 2. Mathematical-Logical, 3. Musical, 4. Visual-Spatial, 5. Bodily-Kinaesthetic, 6. Interpersonal, 7. Intrapersonal, 8. Naturalist and 9. Existential).
The attitude of student and parents "let's see what happens" is hazardous in shaping the career. And this records among young students to 92%.
A parent woe lies only in getting the grades of their child but in reality, that mindset has never resulted in shaping the career of a student in their life turnaround. Career Education and Guidance is part of the school's self-evaluation of how it helps young people ‘achieve economic well-being’. Thus it should be considered that CEG in schools designed so the Career Advisors in secondary schools support students in planning their futures in learning and work.
School and Coaching Classes ROI- Parents are spending almost 30% on education and career building for their aspiring sons and daughters and then the reality is complex in terms of ROI(Return on Investment). Also, the parents don't have guts to ask for the ROI from school. School tuition fees and Coaching classes ROI have resulted in abysmal. When we see the average expenses of public school and the international school for class VI to XII which together includes tuition class expenses caters to whopping INR 7,00,000 to INR 1,0,00,000! And in return after the board exams, neither of a single student can do a job, nor even they are employable as they didn't have any volunteering or a vocational job experience. None can even be an apprentice in the industry. Blame it on the schools where the students are only taught to pass the exams, they never give exposure to the life skills. And this blatant consequence is because of the absence of the ecosystem of the job after school.
97% of the Indian students start career planning only after their completion of XII or intermediate. This is the utmost call of the time to envisage the attitude of planning the career at the earliest and one should start from age 11-12 (Class VI-VII). Career building is an arduous thing and it involves the whole school management and parents coordination for the lifelong.
People are happiest and do their best when doing what they love. As well, pursuing dreams provides motivation, direction and helps to clarify what is really important to people. Let your children dream. Let their dreams shape their goals. Let them use the energy to learn the skills and take the risks needed to make their dreams or any part of them, a reality.
It is recommended for parents to access their allies or a Career Advisor (professionally trained) who can help them and their child to carve a niche in relation to build the career from earliest. Nurture the attitude of CAREER BY CHOICE, NOT BY CHANCE!
Career Assessment
“Know thyself” is an old saying but how many of students and adults try to know themselves, their strength and weaknesses? At early stages of life, most of the boys and girls are unaware of the choice of careers. A wrong way, which is generally followed is appearing in academic and competitive exams and accepting whatever you may succeed in. Naturally, this does not ensure you the best. The problem of frustration, discontent and inferiority complex among youth is simply due to ignorance about career objectives.
Therefore, to decide a realistic career, the first step in this direction is to analyse the interests, creative potential and personal traits. For this Margdarshak has developed a scientifically formulated
“Career Assessment” programme. Also, our Career Advisors will help you to draw the education and training pathways to achieve your goal.
Career assessment tools help students consider and plan career options, preparation and school-to-work transition more effectively. The assessment programmes, which are based on a "whole-person" concept, include:
* Ability Assessment -> what the student can do well
* Aptitude Assessment -> what the student likes to do, and
* Attitude Assessment -> what is important to the student.
These tools may be used separately or together for Career Assessment, and they provide three important pieces of information:
These tests will help students to identify their work-related interests, what they consider important on the job, and their abilities in order to explore those occupations that relate most closely to these attributes.
Aptitude Assessment
The Aptitude Assessment provides accurate, reliable profile of students occupational interests that provides valuable self-knowledge about their career preferences.
The aptitude assessment is composed of 180 items describing work activities that represent a wide variety of occupations as well as a broad range of training levels. Students can use their interest results to explore the world of work.
This assessment tool helps students discover the type of work activities and occupations that they would like and find exciting. Students identify and learn about broad interest areas most relevant to them.
The Aptitude Assessment measures six types of occupational interests:
- Realistic
- Investigative
- Artistic
- Social
- Enterprising
- Conventional
Aptitude Assessment Strengths
- Compatible with Holland's R-I-A-S-E-C Interest Structure
- rich and extensive research history
- widely accepted and used by career advisors and counsellors
- easy to use and well received by clients
- Interest items represent a broad variety of occupations and complexity levels
- An extensive and thorough development effort
- client input during all stages
- construct validity and reliability evidence
Work Attitude Assessment
Work Attitude Assessment allows students to pinpoint what is important to them in a career. They help to identify occupations that they may find satisfying based on the similarity between their work values (such as achievement, autonomy, and conditions of work) and the characteristics of the occupations.
Students use the Work Attitude Assessment to indicate the importance to them of each work need, in two different steps.
In step 1, participants rank order the twenty-one work need statements by comparing them to one another and ordering them according to their relative importance.
In step 2, they rate the work needs by indicating whether or not the need is important independent of the other work need statements. Users receive a profile of their work values that:
- Helps them develop valuable self-knowledge about their work values,
- Fosters career awareness.
The Work Attitude Assessment measure six types of work values:
- Achievement
- Independence
- Recognition
- Relationships
- Support
- Working Conditions
Work Attitude Assessment Strengths
- Based on over 30 years of research by leading vocational psychologists
- An extensive and thorough development effort
- Stakeholder input during all stages
- Construct validity and reliability evidence
- Extensively pilot tested - customer reactions overwhelmingly positive.
Dermatoglyphics
Recognise a child's multiple intelligence and learning styles at the fingertips!
Every child has a unique talent as s/he has a unique thumb sign. The scientific study and analysis of fingerprint are called Dermatoglyphics.
Fingerprints and brain connections are established at the pregnancy stage when the fetus is 13-19 weeks old. Both the nervous system and the epidermal ridges have a common origin from the ectoderm in the embryo.
No two people have exactly the same fingerprints. Different kinds of characteristics are found, even with monozygotic (identical) twins.
Dermatoglyphics pattern remains unchanged throughout the life of an individual. The same fingerprints will appear again after healing of a wound.
Dermatoglyphics is an innovative method that records and analyses a child's fingerprints to identify their natural talents, creative potential and learning style.
Statistics show that Dermatoglyphics provides up to 88% accurate analysis of a person's multiple intelligences and learning styles.
In Sunday Times (London, UK), Dec 9, 2001, Roger Dobson article; scientists say "Finger Print Reading is True Guide to Intelligence".
The Dermatoglyphic method is well appreciated with proof of authenticity by Times of India; May 15, 2012 edition.
Howard Gardner proposed each individual has nine intelligences: Verbal-Linguistic, Mathematical-Logical, Musical, Visual-Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalist and Existential Intelligence.
Learning styles are an individual's natural pattern of acquiring information. Based on Neil Fleming's VARK model children's learning preferences are identified as: Visual, Aural, Reading and Writing and Kinesthetic Learners.
Discovering child's learning styles and areas of intelligences gives a clue about what activities they should spend more time, as children are curious and can absorb more knowledge. To remove the 'trial and error' method when parents try to make their child learn something without knowing whether the child will be able to understand the way they want.
Click here for your dermatoglyphics report.
Career by “Choice” not “By Chance”
Chance is when others make decisions for you like
- Your admission is guided by the teacher, peers, any relative and sometimes by an admission agent.
- Chance is also when circumstances align to create a condition beyond your control such as you miss entrance test, couldn’t make to a choice of course or college because of the difference of a fraction of marks in last cut off list.
- Chance is when your job is terminated, transferred, or changed beyond the original scope of the role.
- Not being hired because you may not fit in with the team in place, change in management that creates a change in operations, or even something greater like significant changes in the economy or storms of the century demolishing companies and leaving jobs in its wake.
Career by Choice is when you have control, such as accepting or declining admission in well-reputed colleges, moving companies, or even moving cities. These can seem like momentous choices at the time you’re confronted with them. In the end, you are ultimately faced with the choice of staying where you are or moving on. There is actually a risk no matter what you choose because staying where you do not guarantee your circumstances, admission, choice of course and college, job, or place of employment will stay the same, only that you think you know what to expect for the foreseeable future.
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