Career Guidance Programme

 Background:

All of us require career Guidance at some point in our life. It helps us get insight about ourselves, our career and what we can do to improve it. Career Counsellors are experts at assessing your aptitude, personality, interests, and other aspects of students. They use this evaluation to suggest the best career options from all the available and relevant options. Career Counselling provides access to the resources and knowledge that a career expert possesses. This knowledge of careers, their scope and the paths to pursue them are most important from the point of view of a parent and child, since most of the times, parents or guardians do not have that kind of knowledge. Career Counselers understands the hurdles in his/her career path. This knowledge helps to develop the confidence to overcome these hurdles. A good counsellor provides such insight and confidence to the counselee. Students and professionals have habits that are hard to break such as procrastinating not keeping updated on latest development in their chosen career paths, neglecting emotional and mental health, not trying to self-motivate, etc.

A Career Counsellor helps break such behavioural patterns that lead to unproductive activities both at home and in school/college/work. Choosing a career can be a demanding task for both parents and children. A lack of any source of venting out emotions and thoughts may add to the existing frustration. Career Counselling provides a platform where such frustrations can be reduced, and focus is re-directed to selecting right path. It is essential that for bright future students must start planning at right time. And for right planning one need right guidance. Right career guidance can tell you about the career options that could suit the most. Hence one can start preparing for that option from the beginning. It will give ample amount of time for right kind of preparations. This could only be possible if students take guidance for your career. Everyone has some goal in his or her life, so, what are ambitions or target as far as students career is concerned. They have to decide in advance and right career guidance could really help you in that.

 Objectives

  • To make students aware about the latest opportunities available in the field of Science & Technology.
  • To promote students to pursue education in Science & Technology.
  • To encourage the students from ST community to enroll for employment oriented education in S & T.
  • To provide information’s to the students for the competitive exams such as Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) main, JEE Advanced, BITSAT, VIT University Engineering Entrance Exam (VITEEE), NATA, NEET etc.,

For execution of the said programme of Career Guidance, GSCST has organized 5 programmes, three for South Goa and two for North Goa. For South Goa programmes held at  Quepem, Canacona and Sanguem Talukas for Students of ST community and for North Goa programmes held at Pernem and Sattari Taluka for any community. The schools from respective blocks had been identified having suitable venue to accommodate 300-400 students and the nearby schools deputed their students. The students were briefed about the latest opportunities available in the field of Science & Technology. The ST community Students will be taken special care and gave them employment oriented education and also encouraged them to participate for the various competitive exams through the Resource person namely Dr Fr. Bolmax Pereira, Asst. Prof. St. Joseph Vaz College of Science, Cortalim, Mormugao &Shri. Naguesh Sardessai,  Sr. Teacher from People’s Higher Secondary School, Mala,  Panaji.   The local Students of Secondary and Higher Secondary schools of these talukas were played major role in the programme and interacted in the awareness Programme.

In association with the various institutions, Headmaster/Headmistress concerned from the talukas, GSCST had successfully organised the programme in the State. The Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of Goa, Porvorim, extended financial support in implementing this project. The human resources of GSCST were deployed for implementing and coordinating the programs.

Five programmes, one each in Quepem, Canacona, Sanguem especially for ST. Community Students and Sattari and Pernem for any community involving 350 to 400 Students per programme took the benefit of the programme. The awareness created has really helped the students especially of ST community to promote & pursue education in Science & Technology, encourage the students from ST community to enrol for employment oriented education in S & T and also provided information to the students for the competitive exams such as Kishori Vigyan Puraskar Yojana, Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) main, JEE Advanced, BITSAT, VIT University Engineering Entrance Exam (VITEEE), NATA, NEET etc.  was achieved.