Query from: Namit dubey, India, 12/03/07

Dear Advisors

I need career advice and career planning and want to talk to a good career counselor who can guide me in right direction and help me in career growth.

Please give me the contact number of some good career counselors in DELHI, so that I can personally meet and discuss in detail. I stay in DELHI and looking for career counselor in DELHI.

regards,

Namit

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Response from: V S- Keep Faith .,

Registered Member on Ask Agent

Source: Research

BEFORE TALKING TO COUNSELOR HERE ARE MY ADVICES,SO THAT YOU CAN BE CLEAR IN WHAT YOU ASK THEM. Apart from this, my career counseling:

Developing a Career Plan: With all kinds of career possibilities available, how do you make a decision? Once you know what career path you want to follow, how do you get there? Following are simple rules to follow -

1. Develop a career plan. Think about what you want to do and find out more about the kind of training, education, and skills you will need to achieve your career goal.

2. Assess your skills and interests. Think hard about what you enjoy, what you are good at, what kind of personality you are, and the values you hold.

3. Research occupations. Find out more about the nature of the jobs that interest you, such as education requirement, salary, working conditions, future outlook, and anything else that can help you narrow your focus.

4. Analyze and evaluate your skills and capabilities Whether you’re employed, unemployed, considering a career change, re-entering the job market, or recently graduated, the first step toward reaching your career potential is to objectively analyze and evaluate your skills and capabilities.

5. Have a coach or a career counselor objectively assess your natural talents, skills and professional strength. Compare your skills and interests with the occupations you’ve selected. The career that matches your skills, interests, and personality the closest may be the career for you.

6. Set career goals Choose your career goal. Once you’ve decided what occupation matched up best with you, then you can begin developing a plan to reach your career goal.

7. Find our about financial aid to help support you in obtaining your career goal. If you haven’t already done so, begin saving for courses that will help you achieve your career goals. Learn about job hunting tips as you prepare to graduate or move into the job market.

8. Create a high profile resume Create a resume that will sell you. If required, get a professionally written resume. Don’t send out a resume until it is a strong sales tool that represents you.

9. Grab information on Industry Trends and specific companies Develop sophisticated networking capabilities

10. Develop winning interview skills Even if you are an expert in your profession, you must be able to sell yourself during an interview.

11. Prepare yourself for salary negotiations Have a strategy for negotiation top money. A coach or career counselor can give you tools for getting the money you want.

12. Use marketing techniques to get a competitive edge You need to implement an effective marketing strategy to increase your visibility and give you an edge.

13. Use an approach that meets your needs Don’t follow guidelines in a book or from a friend if they are not comfortable for you and not representative of who you are. Be authentic in designing a career search and marketing plan that really reflects who you are.

I think this can help you in best of career

Good Luck. Take care --

V S-Keep Faith

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Response from: Geetha Gopakumar,   
Featured Member on Ammas.com
Source: This information comes from my own knowledge.

Career counselling refers to the personalised service of offering information, guidance and support to people who may need assistance with a range of career management issues. The main issues presented to career counsellors focus on the difficulty many people face in identifying a suitable career direction and the subsequent task of pursuing career goals (that is, finding relevant employment). The full process typically involves the following: assessing interests, personality traits and skills determining short term and long term education and training needs developing effective job search skills exploring work and family balance and other values identifying and addressing barriers to pursuing career goals identifying career choices and pathways understanding market trends and employment prospects for the future Career counsellors generally use a range of specialised assessment tools (questionnaires and tests), interview techniques and information sources to establish a suitable match between the person and the external reality of the world of work. Resume writing skills and other job search techniques are then often discussed during subsequent counselling interview sessions to assist with finding relevant employment (India Education.net 2000–07).

Career counsellors are professionals, often with a background in psychology who have undergone specialist training. Career counsellors can be employed by organisations that exclusively offer career management services, or alternatively be incorporated into other services such as employee assistance programmes and vocational rehabilitation or return to work services.

Mrs. Usha Albuquerque, Director Career Smart Institute, New Delhi, is a reputed Career Counsellor. NDIM has emerged as one of the premier Business Schools in the country. NDIM originated in 1996. NDIM is a unit of National Level NGO,under a registered and charitable “Society for Employment and Career Counselling” to promote excellence in management education, research, and managerial training. http://www.ndimdelhi.org/