Career Counselling by Jitin Chawla for classes 11 and 12.

On 18 December, 2013, the students of classes 11 and 12 joined Mr. Jitin Chawla for an interactive career counseling session. Mr. Jitin Chawla is an eminent educationist and career counsellor. He has been doing a number of shows on NDTV ( Mission Admission completed 28 episodes ), DD ( Career Time, Evening live Show, Meri Baat), CNN-IBN, Delhi Aaj Tak Tej, CNEB, ZEE Business, Sahara T.V. NCR, Lok Sabha TV and writes for various newspapers and magazines like India Today - Aspire , Outlook , Sahara Times , HT , Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala, Hindustan Hindi, Dainik Jagran, and Times of India . He has also been answering student queries on the radio (102.6 F.M.).

Mr. Chawla is an alumnus of the Faculty of Management Studies and has earlier worked with both Indian and multinational companies. Currently, he is Director at Centre for Career Development, which does Aptitude Testing, Career Workshops, Career Fairs, Career Resource Centres and conducts workshops for students, teachers and parents.

Mr. Chawla and his team have already conducted more than 14,500 workshops in different educational institutions. His area of expertise is career counselling, leadership training and educational systems' planning.

Mr. Chawla talked to us first about the various fields of study in classes 11 and 12. He then elaborated upon a range of career choices in humanities, science and commerce. For each career, he provided us with a job description. He told us the kind of personality that fits particular professions. He went on to tell us about various graduate and post-graduate courses and named a few institutions that offer them.

The students were spoke to on study skills. Mr. Chawla shared with us the importance of developing the willpower to spend more time studying. He highlighted various methods and techniques that can help students learn more efficiently.

The workshop also included a representative from IMS, a centre that trains students for entrance examinations. The session also provided an excellent opportunity for students to know more about foreign universities and their admission procedures.

The workshop concluded with a question-answer session. Mr. Chawla helped by sharing knowledge on a variety of diverse fields from drama and theatre to law and politics.

It was an insightful experience to attend this talk and extend our horizons in our immediately pressing concern, namely, higher studies. Mr. Chawla's humorous inserts made the exercise very enjoyable as well.

By Ishan Mahendru, 11 C ( Humanities).