Pakistani Challenges to Professional Career Counseling?
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Just some food for thought: Some of us have been talking about the need for career counseling, and I’ve been speaking about this with a few other people from the industry.
Here’s a couple of interesting challenges that Career Counselors would face that came up as actual examples:
1- “We dont do too much counseling because the children’s parents come back and say ‘who are you to tell our son he can choose this career? We’ve decided for him’ ” — Mentioned by the head of a career counseling office at a university.
2- “None of the students we talked to really cared about getting career counseling… most of them said ‘oh our uncle is so-and-so at such-and-such so he will get us a job’ “
On the noble side its easy to say someone should be guiding and mentoring young grads to help them build a career, but on the other how do you make those young grads want to be helped?
Your thoughts?
11:21 am
very interesting that you brought up this same topic. After the success we’ve had last night at SI8, i believe a change in the manner of counselling is required,
rather than counselling on various options to kids who are not sure on what to do, encourage and support kids who do know. easier said than done, but atleast this way a support network can be built up which would bear fruit in the coming months/years.
my two cents.
7:48 pm
Counseling is needed when there are choices a a person needs to choose from. In Pakistan, there are so many constraints like financial and lack of institutions. Usually a person is on a certain career path as a result of these constraints rather than a conscious decision.
8:08 pm
Good point!