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Vocational Guidance in Current Scenario

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• The process of assisting an individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, and
progress in it.
• Vocational Guidance means assistance given to an individual in solving problems
related to career planning and educational and vocational studies keeping in mind the
interest, aptitude, capability, financial background of the family and latest manpower
market situation alongwith shortage and surplus categories of occupations. These
services are provided to the students at the school , college and university level and
to parents and  guardians also. Information is provided through post also. For
detailed counselling individual guidance and group guidance activities are organized
in the employment exchanges. The services can be summed up by saying that
collection compilation and dissemination of information is the motto of educational
and vocational programme.
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Purposes of Vocational Guidance

1. To help adapt the schools to the needs of the students and the
community.
2. To assist the students in choosing, preparing and training for,
entering and making progress in their chosen career or
occupation.
3. To disseminate knowledge of competitive and other problems
of the business and occupational world as well as their
characteristics.
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I) Collection & compilation of information regarding

•  Courses available, subjects offered, duration of the courses, scholarships offered etc.
in various educational institutions.
•  Training facilities available in the country and their admission processes etc.
•  Job avenues open after doing such courses etc.
•  Information on job profiles including its requirements, nature of job, hours of work
and the promotional ladder etc.
• Above information is collected by addressing the institutes by post or in person and
contacting the prospective employers where jobs are possibly held. Other sources of
information are newspapers, radio, television, advertisements, and internet. The
information is filed in a particular organized manner which is then imparted to the
students and job seekers.
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II) Dissemination of Information

• Information thus collected and filed is then disseminated to students, teachers and
parents. Such information is imparted through following mediums:
• Individual Guidance is provided by the employment officer to those who come to the
exchange for any kind of educational and vocational guidance.
• Group Guidance is given by the employment officer to those candidates who visit the
exchange to avail any of services being provided by the exchange. Preferably
homogenous groups are formed to make the group guidance most purposeful.
• Career Talks are given by the vocational guidance officer to students regarding
various educational courses and vocational opportunities. Some times the topic also
comes from the institutes as per their specific need and demand. Educational
institutes in rural areas are covered on priority because they need information and
guidance more than the students in urban areas.
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• Career Conference: Such conferences are held in educational institutions or common place where
experts and employment officers deliver lectures on general and specified fields of employment.
Interaction sessions are held thereafter to answer the queries of students or applicants. Where the need
be N.G.Os are also involved in these programmes to spread the message at the grass- root level

• Career Exhibitions: are arranged by the exchanges where information on educational and vocational
courses is depicted through use of audio-visual aids. Such career conferences and exhibitions are well
publicised and advertised so that maximum benefit is drawn by the public.

• Coaching-cum-Guidance Camps: These camps are held to prepare candidates for various competitive
examinations regarding admissions or job entry. Lectures by experts are arranged and mock tests are
conducted for the applicants to prepare them for such tests and interviews.

• Aptitude and intelligence testing: Such tests are available in all the guidance centres established in
District Employment Exchanges.
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Purpose of Vocational Guidance

The purpose of vocational guidance is:

a. To serve the individual and the society
b. To prevent maladjustment and dissatisfaction
c. To ensure efficient use of man power
 Need of Vocational Guidance
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According to Myer’s, Vocational guidance is needed because of the following reasons:

a. Vocational guidance provides many economic advantages to the employers. Their problems
are less because then workers enjoy job satisfaction.
b. Human potentialities are utilized to a maximum with the help of vocational guidance.
c. If an individual stays in a wrong profession, he/she is not happy. He is frustrated. His family
life is affected.
d. If an individual stays in a wrong profession for a time, he suffers economically – there is a
financial loss.
e. There are a large number of personal and social values of vocational guidance. Leaving aside
financial considerations, the worker’s happiness, his personal development, his value as a social
unit and his contribution to human welfare are all involved. Right vocational guidance helps us
to achieve that.
f. It is needed from the point of view of health of the workers. If the profession is such where
health of social workers breaks down, production suffers and morale of workers goes down.
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Primary Aim of Vocational Guidance

The primary aim of vocational guidance is the promotion of personal satisfaction with life as a whole. As
such, the process of vocational guidance will consists of the following factors:

a. providing a placement service to help him/her to implement those plans

b. providing a follow-up service to help him /her to implement those plans.
c. enabling the individual to discover information about himself/herself, his/her abilities, interests, needs,
ambitions, limitations and their causes.
d. providing counseling in order to promote self understanding and to develop educational and
occupational plans.
e. providing him/her with a frame of reference in which to see himself / herself, in relation to these
educational and vocational opportunities; to orient him/ her to the helping agencies available and to alert
him /her to future decision making points in his/ her career.
f. providing him/her with information
g. n about his/her environment, the advantages and disadvantages of different occupations and
educational courses, the qualifications, necessary for entry into them, and the total range of opportunities
available to him/her in theory and practice.
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Stages in Vocational Guidance

Vocational guidance at the Elementary Stage
a. Create the habit of neat and systematic work.
b. Create love and respect – positive attitude for normal work.
c. Encourage neatness in work.
d. Train the use of the hands of the child.
e. Encourage the development of good relations amongst themselves.
f. Create and achieve hand-eye co-ordination.

The purpose of vocational guidance is to help the child through the curriculum and the
extra curriculum to develop his /her basic skills and attitudes which are important for
successful work.
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Vocational guidance at the Secondary Stage

a. helping pupils according to their vocational assets and liabilities

b. helping pupils to get suitable jobs
c. helping pupils to prepare themselves for entry into the careers of their
choice
d. helping pupils to be familiar with occupations and their requirements
e. helping pupils to be familiar with vocational implications of different
subjects to be studied in the secondary school.
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Definite guidance in vocations can be given at this stage, for example:

a. The child should be helped to make the right choice now here.
b. The child should be helped to know himself. Entire vocational guidance
depends on it.
c. familiarity about the world or work can be given.
d. The child can be placed during a high school in a suitable job and
follow-up may be undertaken.
e. Whether the child will go to college or remain in a job can also be
decided.
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Vocational guidance at the University/College level

The Purposes are:
1. Assisting students to relate their studies with the vocations that would be open to
them at the end of their college career.
2. Assisting them to make a detailed study of the career which they would like to
pursue.
3. Assisting them to acquaint themselves with the different avenues of work.
4. Assisting them to acquaint themselves with avenues for higher studies.
5. Assisting them to know about the various programmes of financial assistance—
scholarships, fellowships-for improving their prospects.
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Vocational Guidance Strategies

Vocational guidance strategies are based on the following principles:
• Vocational guidance services should be based on the principle of individual
differences.
• Different strategies need to be used to cater to the individual vocational needs of
students.
• The individual needs to understand the total perspective of a vocation for which he
has decided to prepare himself.
• Vocational guidance service must fulfill the vocational needs of every student.
• The selection of a particular vocation is not confined to a single, fixed decision, but a
time extending process, involving a series of social and personal factors.
• Occupation is to be looked at as a source of income to people and a major source of
satisfying needs and optimizing aptitudes , competencies and interests.
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Vocational Guidance in India

• In India, employment exchanges provide vocational guidance to youth

(applicants without any work experience) and adults (with specific work
experience).
• In order to divert educated youth to channels of gainful employment,
vocational guidance and career advising programmes of the Directorate
General of Employment and Training have been expanded and
streamlined. A career study centre and the National Institute for Career
Services (Central Institute for Research and Training) provide career
literature for the occupational orientation of the youth and other guidance
seekers.
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Vocational Guidance in India

• The Ministry is implementing the Employment Exchange Mission Mode Project which
is one of the 31 Mission Projects under National e-Government plan (Ne-GP). One of
the objectives of EE-MMP has been to revamp and re-engineer NES into National
Career Service (NCS). NCS has been conceptualized as a comprehensive, multi-
pronged, transformational project, which aims to provide a variety of employment-
related service.
• The key success factors of NCS initiative revolve around strengthening the existing
employment exchange ecosystem with an ICT enabled platform (www.ncs.gov.in).
• The NCS portal was launched by Hon'ble Prime Minister Shree Narendra Modi on 20th
July 2015 with an aim to connect the opportunities with the aspirations of youth by
providing job matching services in a highly transparent and user-friendly manner.
• These facilities along with career counselling content will be delivered by the portal
through multiple channels like career centres, mobile devices, CSCs, etc.
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References
• C., Thenmozhi. (2018). Vocational Guidance and its Strategies. 7. 20-23.
• National Institute for Career Service(NICS) | Ministry of Labour & Employment. (2020). Retrieved
11 September 2020, from https://labour.gov.in/nics
• Agrawal, R. (2006). Educational Vocational Guidance And Counselling : Principles, Techniques And
Programmes.