Students today are quite frankly spoilt for options when it comes to pursuing a career. A career today, backed by cut-throat-competition, limitless career choices and changing industry trends have all contributed to making a choice of career a ‘daunting one’

Today more than ever before making an ‘informed career choice’ based on one’s Aptitude, Interest and Personality is the only way to thrive in a career and not merely survive. At YoungBuzz we believe if you choose a career you like, you’ll never work a day.

Why does one need Career counselling?
Firstly Career counselling helps you to know yourself better so you are aware of your strengths and weaknesses. Secondly it helps one to obtain information about careers, institutes and job trends in a single sitting thus saving on time. Thirdly career counselling gives an individual unbiased advice without the influence of parental expectations and peer pressure. And lastly the career tests are not general tests but very detailed oriented and students are advised on various careers based on the integration of these psychometric testing.

What is Career Counselling tests all about? 
A student usually goes through 3 tests to arrive at a career based on their interest, personality and aptitude. These tests are usually for 3 hours and are not based on any syllabus or curriculum. There is no prior preparation required for these tests and an individual should be in a relaxed, focused and honest while answering them. The Aptitude tests are spread over a number of variables integrated into the questions. Eg: Mechanical reasoning measures how well a person can understand mechanical principles, spatial relations measures how well a person can visualise or think in three dimensions, verbal reasoning measures how well a person can reason with words. Then there are variables like numerical ability, language usage, word knowledge, manual speed and dexterity and finally perceptual speed and accuracy. A high score indicates a high aptitude. The personality test analyses students on their core values eg Investigative v/s Accepting, Practical v/s carefree, Independence v/s Conformity, Leadership v/s Supportive, orderliness v/s flexibility and so on. This test enables a student to know their dominant work values i.e values that are most important to an individual while they work. The Interest test involves assessing a student over a cross-section of clusters like Science, Technology, Consumer Economics, Business, Outdoor, Clerical, Communication, Arts and service.

The tests are then integrated to make the student aware of the top three careers career options and back up plans.

Why is it so important to plan a career?

• Many educational institutes are churning out courses that are streamlined or specialised to cater to specific industries or trends. Never before did institutes offer courses like MBA in Capital Markets or Educational Toy-Designing.

• Density of jobs has increased with women filling up jobs once meant only for men or by rural population filling up jobs meant for up town urban population.

• Considering the amount of money one spends in educating oneself it would be a waste if the ultimate career choice would be one with which is not satisfied.

• And lastly since most of ones adult life is spent at the workplace, it is becomes imperative to find jobs that one enjoys so as to grow into productive and emotionally strong individuals of society.  

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