Indian Education System has changed a lot and it has evolved over a period of time. The new business requirements in market has combined various disciplines and opened up opportunities for newer disciplines and the students need not be struck with the traditional choices which may not be offering the same value that they used to offer earlier. Students can afford to explore new areas which are growing in leaps and bounds and very remunerative and requires different types of skills. Moreover, it would be unfair to expect the parents of the new generation students to keep track of all new developments in the market that drives the education system considering the pace at which the changes are happening.
Hence it becomes important for the students to get to know their actual strength and personality and understand the broad range of modern courses along with the traditional ones. C&G wing of CCF provides a service called "Career Awareness Session" where an experienced counsellor will explain the attributes needed for a student to be successful in a career and provide the students awareness of a list of courses, colleges and career options based on the stream that they have taken in XI and XII. This will also help the students of IX and X in planning the first step towards their area of choice by selecting the right post standard X.
Though normally a 2-hour session is recommended, the timing of this session can be customized based on the number of participants and the mixture of streams that the participating students that have taken.
The students of Std. IX to XII will be required to make most important decision of their future life which is to choose the appropriate subjects that they wish to pursue at the XI and XII level and college studies that will make them both successful and happy in life. Students have to understand that their career of choice should be able to provide both success and happiness.
The Objective of the half day program conducted by CCF is to help students develop their Career Personality Profile upon which they can make informed choices. While IX and X students make a choice about their subject track for Stds. XI and XII, students of XI and XII make a more appropriate choice with respect to their college courses.
This scientific approach would prevent to a large extent student making a wrong choice of courses due to various environmental factors and later do a course correction that would end up wasting several years. Parents or guardians are required to be present along with the student.
The above service is offered as a one on one session or as a group session.Chennai Counsellors' Foundation (CCF), under the aegis of its Career Guidance Wing, has constantly endeavoured to facilitate the above-mentioned services using scientific methods and tools. To further enhance this offering to the community, CCF has partnered with M/s Pearson India Education Services Private Limited and is licensed to use their online career guidance tool MCMF that has been developed indigenously to meet the specific requirements of Indian students and academic / career environment in India. CCF counselors are certified by Pearson in administering and interpreting this MCMF tool.
The list of certified counselors are given in the link: Click Here
More details about this tool "My Choice My Future" can be accessed in the website: www.pearsonclinical.in/my-choice-my-future
Vinutha Suresh is an engineer turned psychologist. She hails from Chennai. Her gifted traits of natural empathy & active listening enabled her to pursue psychology. She is passionate about counselling, therapy, consulting & psycho-social support. She also holds a BE degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering. She had worked in the Information Technology industry for 10 years. Her expertise was in training, quality assurance, process implementation & documentation.
Vinutha resigned from the corporate industry in 2018. After pursuing masters in psychology, she equipped herself with various other courses to fill the gap between theorical & practical knowledge which includes securing a Diploma in mental health & counselling at the renowned research foundation SCARF, Anna Nagar (NIMHANS Bangalore accredited).
Vinutha is the founder of Mitra Counselling & Consulting. Her areas of interest are training youth population, geriatric, and palliative care counselling. Currently she works in palliative care oncology space as psychologist & project coordinator at the Cancer Institute, Adyar, which she deals with anticipatory grief, grief, end of life & bereavement counselling for the cancer patients & their family.
Vinutha is keen that mental health should be accessible to everyone and disadvantaged social class should get all the awareness and facilities like anyone else. She is working on removing the stigma associated to mental health at the grassroot level.
Vinutha is an active member of Chennai Counsellors’ Foundation (CCF) for the past 3 years.
She is the co-coordinator of the Career & Guidance Wing of CCF. Vinutha is a yoga fanatic.
Her hobbies include driving, cricket, Ilayaraja, Tamil & fitness.
Sowmya Satagopal is a counsellor who has been practising for the last 10 years. She is currently a student counsellor at SISHYA, Adyar.
She has completed her undergraduation in Psychology and went on to complete her post graduation in Mass Communication, both from WCC, Chennai. She then obtained a post graduate degree in Psychology from the University of Madras. After a hiatus, she pursued the ACE programme from CCF to get her certification in counselling.
Her expertise is in the areas of career guidance and aptitude testing. She enjoys working with students of all ages and adults too, to help them explore their interests and future career choices. Being a sports person herself and having played sports at a competitive level, she is very keen to expand her learning in the area of sports psychology. Sowmya enjoys learning how the mind works and its impact on sporting performance.
She is also part of Psyenergy, which is coming together of 4 like minded individuals to work with students and adults. They conduct workshops and seminars in areas like career guidance, life skills, personality development to name a few.
Sowmya takes joy in working with students and guiding them to balance academics with their other activities. She strongly believes that every child is unique and need the right support to create wonders.