Abstract

The objective of this project is to develop software for students’ academic guidance. As we know
that students often face problems in selecting their academic career. The problems they face
during career selection are many such as career choice, institute selection, awareness about the
merit of an institute for a specific department. Another problem is that the student doesn’t know
about their personality. As we know that it is always beneficial to have a career in harmony with
the personality. We should solve these problems by developing a system with different modules
such as personality prediction module and merit predictor module and their different sub-
modules. Moreover, the application will run on the Android operating system. In personality
prediction module, the user will take their personality test and in result, they will get their
personality type and professions according to their personality. The test is designed according to
the theory of the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator self-assessment test. It will calculate the user’s
personality type. There are sub-modules of personality test such as professions, strength and
weakness, college major and love life friendships. All sub-modules will work according to the
personality type of user. The second module is merit predictor, in this module upcoming merit of
selected universities will be predicted by using the “polynomial linear regression statistical
technique of data mining” by the analysis of previous year’s merit of selected universities. There
are sub-modules of merit predictor such as profile, news, notification, wish-list, merit and find
my university. The career counseling system will help the student in making their future bright.
Introduction
Career guidance is a process that aims to provide individuals a clearer understanding of
themselves and their potential for future career development. [1]
Particularly careers guidance helps people to:
- Clarify their goals for the future;
- Assess their career development needs at different points in their life;
- To understand the actual process of choosing a career;
- Take appropriate measures to implement these objectives [2]
The main purpose of guidance is to assist individuals in the exploration of their complex needs,
“to make greater sense of their current situation and to build confidence in their ability to
complete the review process and move forward from the point at which they seek help” [2]
Career guidance can be defined as the process through which students make decisions associated
with their career. Career pursuing is usually done in adolescent when one begins to discover
different career choices and relate it to their interests. Numerous components can impact the
students’ decision to take after a specific profession pathway. These components include
individual interest, family, instructors, the media, electronic data, and introduction to the
occupation itself. There is much impact on parents and teachers on students for choosing science
and engineering as a subject. [3]
Undeveloped people need counseling and guidance to be able to discover abilities, inclinations
[1]
and to outline their future. Basically, after intermediate students need career counselling for
selecting best suited career. In this phase of life they get confuse about what to choose, what they
can do successfully. In this case, they get counseling from their seniors, instructors, teacher or
parents and sometime number of counselor results to confuse them instead of giving good
counseling.
As you know that technology is going on its peak so in this era of technology we have researched
that there should be an application of career counselling system from which students can get
help.

We have researched that there are many research articles in which researchers have described
about the importance of career counselling for students they have described about the need of
career counselling for students. In this research we have try to solve this problem among students
by using technology. So we have made an application in which we will do career counseling. We
have provide features regarding to students in our application such as merit prediction,
profession prediction, and personality prediction by using technologies.
Problem Statement
We observed that thousands of students appear in the college admission test every year. Some of
them appeared in MCAT (Medical College Entrance Test) conducted under the supervision of
[4]
UHS (University of Health Sciences) and some of them appeared in UET (University of
Engineering and Technology) [5] entry test. But, it is examined that very few numbers of students
got admission in university where they had applied. There are some reasons such as the problem
of career selection, institute selection, the lake of knowledge about the merit of the institute, they
don’t know about their personality. There are many dilemmas facing by students after high
school often students are confused with their careers that they have to do now? Although many
times people around them give advice. Many times student go out on the wrong path due to
confusion or on advise of their elders, they will not determine their goal, they surrounded by
negativity and sometimes they waste their quality time and money on the wrong path and later
they realize they are going on wrong. So, because of these reasons usually, the student got
confused at this phase of life and never take the best-fit decision about their career, in this case,
the steps to the path of failure. Most of them don’t have knowledge about scholarships. They
have a lake of knowledge about which universities offer scholarships because of this reason
many scholars waste their time and failed to gain a quality education. These problems can
extinguish the career of students because they are failed to get proper guidance about their
career.
Project Overview Statement
In the proposed project “Career Counselling System” we have targeted the students because it is
very important for them in their academic career. The main modules of our project are as follow:
• PLAN IT in this module, we will solve problems such as institute selection and merit
prediction. It is consist of students’ academic profile, merit calculator, merit predictor, wish-list,
news, and notification. It will predict the upcoming merit of targeted universities. So, students
will get help in selecting universities. They can add desired universities in wish-list. They will
get notifications and news about universities added in wish-list.
• AIM IT In this module, students will get help in choosing their career according to their
personality type. It will consist of a personality test, strength, and weakness, college Career
Counseling System University of Lahore, Chenab Campus 7 major, daily tips, love life, and
friendships. Students/users will take a personality in result they will know about their personality
type. According to personality type, they will introduce their college major, professions, strength
and weakness, love life and friendships.
• MANAGE IT In this module, an admin will manage the system by updating adding and
deleting the existing record of the system. They will manage the database of the system. This
particular project deal with the problems facing by students while taking decisions about their
academic career. The disadvantages with existing applications are that they are not predicting
merit and filter professions according to the student’s personality and ability. We can enhance
proficiency.
Requirements and Specifications

Functional Requirements Non-Functional Requirements

The application will welcome the user on first The application will work efficiently
time
The application will do personality test The application will produce result within
seconds
It will predict user’s personality There will be no faults and failure in
application
It will predict professions according to user’s The application will be easy to maintain
personality.
It will provide daily tips according to user’s The application will be easy to repair.
personality.
It will show the strength and weakness of The application will work correctly on
users according their personality. different devices.
It will predict upcoming merit of universities. The application will yield the expected result.
User will add their favorite universities in The application will be easy to understand.
wishlist.
The application will run on android operation The application will be user friendly
system
All records will be stored in online database The application will produce the correct result
Firebase

Use case diagrams

The use case diagrams of the proposed project is given below in which the system of application
is elaborated:
Figure 1 AIM IT Use case diagram

Figure 2 PLAN IT Use case diagram

 Figure 3 Manage It Use case diagram

Working Procedure
In this proposed project we have used polynomial linear regression statistical technique of data
mining for predicting merit of universities by the analysis of previous years’ merits of selected
universities. We have used the theory of Myer-Briggs Type Indicator for taking personality test
in the implementation of our project’s module personality Type and profession prediction.

Figure 4 Working Methodology

Results
There are two main modules of career counselling system with further sub-modules. All modules
are tested. The output results of tested modules are displayed and discussed below.
AIM IT
AIM IT is specially designed to predict the personality type of user. There are some sub-modules
of AIM It such as welcome, profession, test, strength and weakness, college major, general and
tip of the all these modules are working according to the personality type of user.

Figure 5 AIM IT

PLAN IT
The main propose of PLAN IT is to predict upcoming merit of targeted universities and suggest
the university for students. The user can also add the desired universities in wish list. Application
will display the news and notifications regarding to the universities added to wish list the
visualization of this module is shown
 Figure 6 PLAN IT

MANAGE IT
In this module, we will manage the other modules of our project. This module is basically
designed for admin who will login to application and update, add, and delete record in other
modules the data will be deleted updated or added in the database. Admin will send the news and
notifications about universities to Plan It module so the user will see the updated news.

Figure 7 MANAGE IT
Conclusion
We have developed the career counselling system through which user will get help in choosing
their career, selecting college majors and selecting university. This system have three modules
such as AIM IT, PLAN IT, and MANAGE IT. In these module, different type of functionality
related to career counselling will perform to solve the problems of students while choosing
career and selecting institutes.

AIM IT will take personality test of user and predict their personality type and profession
prediction. According to personality type it will display the list of filtered profession which are
suggested to user. It will also display strength and weakness, love life and friendships, predicted
college major regarded to the predicted personality type. This application module will help users
in choosing career.

PLAN IT will predict the upcoming merit of given list of university. User will know about their
merit by using this application. It will save the student profile in which they required to enter
their academic information. It also provide the wish list in which user will add their desired
universities and get news and notifications regarding to the desired universities. This module
application will help users in choosing university/institute.

MANAGE IT will manage the other modules of application. This module will used by admin.
He will add delete and update data in PLAN IT and AIM IT by using this application module.

For the implementation of above modules we have used regression analysis statistical technique
of data mining in PLAN IT for predicting the upcoming merit of universities. And Myer-Briggs
Type Indicator theory of self-assessment test in AIM IT to predict the personality type, college
major and professions.

Career counselling system plays an important role in the academic life of students. It will help
students to solve their problems such as career selection, information about merit, profession
prediction and institute selection. Career selection should be matched with the student’s
personality type. Merit of universities should be predicted, it will save the quality time of
students. The system is successfully developed and the testing results are shown above.
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