After the plus-two courses for a science graduate there may be a little confusion between the Medical and Engineering field. For the commerce and arts students the options are many, hence they too have their own part of confusions. Now the question is that how they manage to take the decision? Is any toss up that could help in the decision making process? Or just the intuition works for the majority. But we are living in the modern technological world and the scientific researches are happening across the areas, so we need proof and practical sense.

The studies among the young once reached a common conclusion that the students are taking the course based on the trend and family pressure. The majority of the students do not understand the importance oftaking an appropriate decision. The changes and movements divert their decision point and they are taking the decision based on the external flow.

In the later stage an Engineer or a Doctor identifies their aptitude in literature or humanities. Since the science isn’t developed to make the time machine, with which you can go back to past and make a correction. The wrong decision cause the professional dissatisfaction and stress and also as the business platform for many Meditation, Yoga and Spa Centers.

These problems can be avoided by taking the right path. The decision may be difficult and it is a natural to have uncertainty over it. You can seek the help of others, not from your friends who already have their own doubts or to the parents who always love to see their own points, but from the professionals who are specializing and updating themselves for serving the students having problems in academic works especially at the decision point. These professionals are commonly called career counselors who help the students to make their own decision by introducing them to themselves.

Who is an academic Counselor???

The career and academic counselors are those people who have specialized knowledge in the different career aspects for different pass-out, whether you are a school or college graduate. Most of the career counselors have a one umbrella solution for the students such as which course they can opt, where to go and what are the financial supports for such courses.

The counselors help the student to make the wise decision, though nothing can be predicted and mistakes are the platform for learning, you need to understand one thing that this is not a world which encourages the people who do mistakes, especially when there is lot of choices.

What Academic Counselors Do for You???

The counselors help the students to identify their weak and problem areas. They help the students in finding their potential and skills, their favor and desire. Many students think that they are good in a particular field based upon their previous experience. But when you are doing a course it is not your experience going to matter, there you need some skills. Your attitude and interest plays lots in doing a course but it is important to keep the interest until your completion of the program.

May a student finds a career in Law is interesting because of his experience with a lawyer or may be your friend circle found this for you? But when you put into the course or career you may not be successful because there you need some skills, combination of some skills. You should have a good communicating and convincing skills.

Besides you should able to find all the aspects of a particular thing and have a potential quality of seeing the threats. The aspirant won’t be aware of such requirements and they simply fix the decision. You will not get any extra time to develop such qualities in campus, where people are coming for improvements and excellence. The counselors make you to know such requirements about particular program and help you to find whether you can meet such demands.

The Psychometric tests and the trial and error methods are the common tools used by counselor to help students in the decision process. By these methods they find out the strongest as well as the weakest point in a student. These people have the expert knowledge in the requirements for each course. They will match this with the student’s assessment results and suggest the most suitable courses for them.

They also conduct a personal interaction with the students and by those communications the counselor draw a potential picture about the student. The open discussion also helps the student to scale up their confidence level by knowing about their strongest area and the opportunity opened for them. The counselors also help them to set a future goal and advice the students how to reach those goals.

The counseling will help you to have a feeling of reassurance that somebody who expert in the field supports your decisions. This reassurance is a great asset for you to face the pressure and the competition.

The Threat…

Though the students are facing a problem in making a decision, India is also facing a problem of the shortage of the academic counselors. We don’t have enough number in the academic counselor list and this presents the carefree attitude of the authorities and the nations on dealing the academic issues. In the developed nations the counseling is a part of academic curriculum and studies shows that these counseling have a greater influence in the potential growth of the younger minds in those countries.

The lack of good counselors makes the students to flow with the trend and in the later stage regretting on the wrong decision, there may be less chance to correct it later. We don’t want any more student suicide due to the expectation and pressure. We need to make the counseling a continuous process as part of our schooling and a statutory body is needed to monitor the activities. Take the help of a good counselor and make a right decision if it costs a little…