Career Counseling for Career Growth -Better Career, Better Life-

1. Career Counseling for Career Growth-Better Career, Better Life- Himanshu Vaidya Brick Foundation

2. Career – Career Counseling – Career Growth • Career is among the top three most important elements of our life • Yet WE DON’T PLAN OUR CAREERS • 75% of Indians are in the Wrong Jobs • 75% Indians are in the Wrong Marriages • 75% of the above two are in both Wrong Jobs and Wrong Marriages • Planning is always better than default • Career can be Planned for faster Career Growth • Career Planning Career Growth Quality of life

3. Career Growth: Better Career, Better Life • You can’t succeed doing something you don’t like • You have to find out what you like • CEOs become CEOs because they are doing what they like (Indra Nooyi, A M Naik, Chandrasekhar, Bill Gates) • Few people know what they like and even fewer are able to do what they like. When you do or do too much of what you don’t like you reduce your Quality of Life • Career Counseling helps you find out what you like and how to do it • Career Counseling helps you in synthesis of Career Growth with Quality of Life • Better Career and Better Life is the goal

4. Career Counseling- What is it? • Counseling is of many types, • Career Counseling • Relationship Counseling • Educational Counseling • Clinical Counseling • Career Counseling is one ‘type’ of Counseling • Career Counseling is a discipline and a profession that helps Individuals Plan and Grow (in) their Careers • Career Counseling is a very popular profession in the West • Every University, Every Corporate has a Career Counselor on the Rolls to help Individuals Plan their Careers

5. Career Counseling- What is it? • Career Counseling is a Scientific Process that includes, • Self Profiling • Job Searching • Job Performance • Career Counseling is a sustained long term process • Career Counseling is done both online and offline • Indian minds resist systems, reason, transparency, they love freedom of impulse, secrecy and self destructive behavior • At senior levels it is called CXO Coaching or Life Coaching or Leadership Development

6. How it actually happens? • Client comes to the Career Counselor • Client History is taken • Client is given Psychological Tests to map out his Strengths and Weaknesses • MBTI Multiple Intelligence Test • 16 PF (it is a paid test) Decision making styles • People relating inventory • Client Profiling is done considering his Personal Strengths and Weaknesses, Family Situation, Stage of life, Personal Interests, Education and Experience • Career Planning is done sitting with the Client to work out Future Goals and Path to the Goals • Career Counseling is a 3-6 months process spread over 15-25 sessions

7. The Action Plan • Job Profile – What you want to do? • Sector, Company, Department, Role • How to reach there? ----- Education, Job Experience, Public Relations • Personal Issues and work place performance • Early Childhood Experiences and work place performance • Is there a need for behavioral counseling to help him? • Professional Networking and Social Networking • How to get a Job? • Resume Writing • Interview Preparation • Reference Bank • Global Opportunities • Strength Building

8. What we do at Brick Foundation? • Brick Foundation is a not for profit organization that works in the area of Education, Employability, Psychology & Mental Health and CSR • Brick Foundation provides help in the area of Career Counseling for Career Growth • If you are or any friend or relative needs help, please feel free to call us • If your company needs help in CSR, feel free to call us • You can visit us at www.brickfoundation.in

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