Career decisions play an important role in shaping the future growth and development of students. Keeping this in mind, a virtual career counselling session was organised by D.P.S R. K. Puram for students of Class X on 8th June 2021. The purpose of this session was to guide the students about how to plan a systematic study schedule for Class X and maximise their potential in current times.
The session began with a welcome address by the school counselor, Ms Kanika Madan. The session was conducted by Mr Binit Kumar Binod, a Management Graduate from K.J.Somaiya Institute of Management studies and Research, Mumbai and has done his Graduation in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. He has worked with reputed companies like Tata Consultancy services and Coca Cola in his formative years of his professional career. He strongly believes in “Siddhirbhavati Karmaja” means…”Success only comes through effort”.
He highlighted the ideal ways of choosing career options and encouraged students to pursue their interests and to work sincerely to achieve their goals. Discussing the nature of the streams available- Science, Commerce and Humanities, he emphasized on the skills required for pursuing them. He further shaped the session into talking about the key points of the skills required and curriculum of the three streams.
Diverse Career Options in Science, Commerce and Humanities fields such as Law, Banking, Actuarial Science, Biotechnology, Travel and Tourism, Management, Chartered Accountancy were also discussed along with the subjects that would help in establishing in these areas. To surmise, the decision ingredients were highlighted. The session concluded with an interactive question & answer round which was moderated by Ms. Divya Bablani. The vote of thanks was proposed by the Class representative.