Dr. Dinesh Nagpal, renowned career counselor and motivational speaker was the chief speaker of the event who advised the students how to select their courses and subjects. Students got an opportunity to learn about various career options in commerce and arts stream and how to go about them. He told “every student is not meant for the medical and non-medical stream. When you choose a stream after X, choose according to your capabilities as commerce and arts stream also has the same amount of importance as medical and non-medical.

Delegate from the UPES said” the need for this kind of workshop arises due to lack of knowledge about new trends and courses today’s students are facing.

The seminar was organized by UPES (Dehradun) in association with Career Compass (Hisar).

Dr. Archana told the various factors that influence an individual learning process are intelligence level, learning disabilities, attention and concentration level, fear and phobias related to studies, exam anxieties, stress, psychological disorders, home environment, etc. A teacher must know all the factors as every individual have a different influencing factor. After knowing the factors they can guide parents or send children to a clinical psychologist for proper diagnosis and treatment of their children. According to clinical psychologist, Early diagnosis, early recognition and timely intervention of these factors can help a student to improve his/her performance in school and in learning. It can reduce the chances of any mental illness in child and adolescent. There are some psychological tests too which can be administered or used for proper diagnosis of these problems.

A career counselor could be a helping hand, volunteer, guide and therapist, who will provide career information, career development tips, can interpret aptitude and abilities of the person. A wide variety of areas are there before a person while deciding on a career.  He might not be able to get or collect information on each and every area. That’ when counseling plays an important part. Counseling helps in assessing one’s ability, interests, skills, need and desires and provides them valuable information on the areas and according to their need.

In career counseling session, clinical psychologists use certain psychological assessment tests, IQ test and aptitude test to determine the interest, kind of personality and skills of a child. There are some common topics that a counselor may discuss during career counseling session can be:

• Skills and talent required for a career
• Potential earnings of various careers
• Working style of the individual.
• Educational requirement of the careers. How much efforts one has to put while going for a certain path.

The therapist or clinical psychologist helps identify resources, financial aid resources and ways to manage stress.