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This is why Career Counseling should be termed Vital for Youth in Our Schools

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There are various students who are pursuing their career in different fields but they are either disengaged from it or they do not enjoy doing it. Some are still moving around the field of medicine and engineering and others are not so sure about it. Some regret doing it and other change their field after bachelors.

This depicts that how a small population of Pakistan, which is involved in getting a higher secondary education or above, is fallen into the trap of minimum career counseling. Only three percent of students in Pakistan are exposed to career counseling facility. Rest of them are either following their parents’ wish or educationist of their society, who might themselves have no idea of the competition of this generation.

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School, parents, and students themselves can primarily be held responsible for this flaw. Students who want to pursue their higher education should be guided by their school teachers or counselors. Schools with their limited or extended resources should either approach career counselor or outsource them and also through various extracurricular activities and projects, schools can find out hidden talent among students.

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Secondly, parents force their children to study that subject which has either higher acceptance in society or one which they, themselves, wanted to pursue in the past. At times, a child is pressurized to do what his whole family is doing. In this battle, a child either does not perform well or even if he does, he won’t get inner satisfaction.

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Thirdly, students who follow the trend and go with the flow. Some choose their disciplines compatible with their gender and other join their peers’ gang. There is another group of students who think that doing what their crush is doing is the sign of love for them. Many people ask for the scope in terms of employment and yet they lose their potential in such measurement scales.

This career counseling thing has a direct connection with the economy of a country. When a child is not satisfied, either he quits it or performs very bad. In result, unemployment, lower productivity, poverty, corruption, and many other evil forces take birth in society.

This untapped and always ignored area should be taken into consideration by schools, parents, government, and students themselves, to achieve a successful career in life which will ultimately contribute to students’ career as well as in country’s economy.

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