Career Counselling Session with an expert

A career counselling session was held on 17 November 2018 for students of classes 9 to 12 and their parents. The session was held between 8:30 and 10:30 am in the School auditorium. Mr. Jitin Chawla, founder-director of North Indias top career counselling firm, Centre for Career Development (CCD) in Delhi was our guest speaker.

Mr. Chawla began his talk about the importance of freedom given by parents to their children to explore as many career choices as they want. He also spoke about the importance of career planning and exploring multiple career choices in the broad field of interest before making a final decision.

An informative power point presentation played in the background which named several careers within the three broad fields namely: Science, Commerce and Humanities. He gave detailed information of the career choices, available courses and the best universities. A few lesser known career choices mentioned by him were: Visual Merchandiser, Actuarial Scientist, Facility Management, Digital Marketing to name a few.

Mr. Chawla suggested that students must learn to build up a student profile, which includes a list of extracurricular activities, school, state, even national and international competitions and other accomplishments. Such a profile particularly helps students who are applying to foreign universities. He shared printed information about various career options for all three streams.

A well-conducted session interspersed with information and humour came to an end after a question answer round. He gave responses to all the queries of students and parents. Everyone was happy and appreciated our Schools efforts in organising an opportunity such as this.

Anshika Sharma, XI-E.