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The Career Talk Show Contest

Introduction

Who do you want to be when you grow up?

A data scientist, fashion designer or pilot? Or maybe you haven’t decided that yet and would love to explore. Now imagine hosting your very own talk show ?️ , with a Champion of his/her field. Maybe you’d want to know the path they took to be successful. Or maybe you’d like to discuss how a day in their life looks like!

So, participate in  the first-ever Career Talk Show Contest ?️. Through a 5 min audio clip, submit questions you would like to ask the champion. Over the last two weeks, 1600+ champions from numerous careers have volunteered to support us. Students with the best entries will be featured on our website and the top 3 will get a chance to interview a Champion for real! ?

Sounds Exciting? Learn more below.

Prize

Having your work published on AIM2EXCEL’s website and getting an opportunity to interview a champion for real.

Deadline

April 30,2020 11:59 pm

Who can submit

All students studying in class 6-12. We’ll pick one winner from each of the following 3 age-groups:

  1. 1) Class 6-8
  2. 2) Class 9-10 &
  3. 3) Class 11-12

Please note that you can only submit an entry WITH your parent’s consent.

What you have to do

  1. 1) Choose a career which you would love to explore. It can be anything from data science, fashion design, pilot. Not sure which career to pick? Take this 5-minute FREE test on our website for quick recommendations. You can also discover 30+ trending careers here.
  2. 2) Imagine that you get to host your very own talk show with a champion from that career. Think about how you’ll introduce yourself and what would you like to ask them? If you want to know more about how to conduct an interview, refer to this talk show by National Public Radio from the USA.
  3. 3) The talk show must have a beginning, a middle and an end. Refer to the table below for information to be included in each part of the talk show.
  4. 4)
    IntroductionMiddleEnd
    1) My name, class, school, city

    2) The career I am going to talk about

    3) Why I like that career

    		Questions to the champion related to education, hobbies, interests, what they do at their jobWhat is the one thing you would want to tell everyone listening to this show?
  5. 5) Record an audio clip of not more than 5 minutes asking these questions.
  6. 6) WhatsApp your audio clip to 9818953806 with the following details as a separate text message:
    1. 1) Name –
    2. 2) Gender –
    3. 3) Class –
    4. 4) Stream –
    5. 5) School –
    6. 6) Career –
  7. 7) You can submit only one entry per student.
  8. 8) You can record the podcast in English or Hindi.

Judgement Criteria

Your entry will be evaluated based on the following 3 criteria:

  1. 1) How well have you followed the guidelines?
  2. 2) Quality of questions
  3. 3) Creativity
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How Career Counseling helps you to build a better future

We are often stuck with these sets of questions- ‘I don’t know what to do with my life’ ‘I am not sure which course to chose’ ‘I have no idea how to achieve my career goals’. A career counselor helps you to uncover these questions and find a route to a better career ladder, satisfaction, and stability. Career guidance and counseling lead to self-awareness about changing trends, introspection in comparison to a theoretical framework, promoting clarity among students and deepening their understanding of various career prospects.

It helps them to understand themselves and the work trends in order to make a wise decision in choosing a suitable career and education. Career counseling is the new beginning to gain exposure and growth as a profession.

List of questions that may be helpful for narrowing one’s focus when considering a career:

  • What qualifications I have- degree/diploma/professional coursework?
  • What options are you considering?
  • How do you typically go about making decisions?
  • What other factors are important to you as you are making this career decision?
  • Short-term and long-term plans?

Importance of Career Counseling

  • Determine the potential
  • Self-enhancement
  • Creating room to explore and discover various career opportunities/ ideal courses
  • Clear career roadmap
  • Exploring the world of work and workplace
  • Informed choice
  • Aids in improving the overall performance of an individual
  • Career selection and growth
  • Understanding the job market

Today, individuals feel the pressure not only to perform well academically but to maintain a work-life balance, extracurricular activities, internships and schedules in the hope to find a career path that will lead to a successful and happy future. In a career counseling session, the counselor helps an individual to explore their key strengths and weaknesses, area of interest, set of skills they possess and personality type to determine possible career options. They help individuals to deal with their everyday issues, stressful decision making and career discovery, job shadowing and major prospects. Career guidance counselors also recommend possible courses, internships, and volunteer opportunities in order to redefine and refine their career goals.

Career Counseling for students

  • Personal revelations
  1. a wide-ranging personal inventory for self-exploration
  2. habits and skills
  3. self-reflection
  • Identifying themes
  1. Striking trends in your personality
  2. Interest inventory
  • A complete picture
  1. Matching your interests and skills to a line of work
  2. Searching for the right opportunity
  3. Daily lifestyle (work environment, peers, colleagues)

It generally helps individuals to make the right choices in terms of their career path, career development, career change, and growth to maximize success and fulfillment. Career counseling provides you with the necessary tools to understand your passion, interest areas, dynamics of personality, aptitude through various psychometric tests and assessments to make you understand you’re ‘true-calling’.

Career guidance counselors help students to choose the right aim at Aim2Excel by assisting with the process of achieving their goals and to be the best version of their professional self. At Aim2Excel, individuals undergo several counseling sessions to form a bigger picture of their future prospects and in shaping their successful and happy career. 

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How psychometric tests and assessments are helpful in shaping your Child’s future

Do you have a clear picture of your future in your head? Or is it still a little blurry? Do you think you know each and every aspect of your personality, or what is the right pathway for you? If you are not sure about such things then a reliable psychometric test along with the proper career counseling can be really helpful for a better future.

What are Psychometric tests for?

Measuring someone’s physical traits is easy if we want to measure a person’s height, weight, heart rate we have notable parameters and tools for that. But what about the mental ability and skills? How do we assess these? Psychometric tests are built to assess such traits. Psychometric tests help in assessing one’s overall personality. Therefore it helps in building a career and a better future accordingly. The main purpose of this test is to measure the mental abilities, skills, and talents of the child through which he can opt for the desired career. There are various questions built to know more about the child, intended to pertain to various traits of a child.

The psychometric tests measures various aspects including:

  • Cognitive abilities,
  • Social skills,
  • Emotional intelligence,
  • Interests, and
  • Personality assessment.
  • Language ability
  • Critical reasoning
  • Numerical ability
  • Non-verbal and verbal reasoning

 

Questions included in these tests are as follow:

  • Aptitude questions,
  • Ability based questions,
  • Memory tests (to measure the ability to retain and recall the information),
  • Reasoning questions,
  • Situational tests.

These tests are standardized, being quite accurate, measures the personality traits with no biases and are highly reliable.

How are psychometric tests helpful for a school student?

A child should have knowledge about his own abilities, skills, talents and overall personality. To know more about their temperaments and to be self-aware. This knowledge helps in choosing the right pathways for him later in his life and also in dealing with the present situations and grabbing the best opportunities. Also if they possess the skills required for a particular career.

For example: To be a pilot, one must be good at maths, should have critical thinking, should be vigilant and focused, should have spatial intelligence.

How does career guidance be helpful for students?

Career counseling helps to explore a children’s personality and accordingly getting career guidance on the basis of this assessment can help in shaping his future. They provide psychometric tests and assess the child accordingly.

Psychometric tests alone cannot really help much, children at the back of their mind always have an aspiration of what he wants to become and what are his interests. These tests help in getting a clear picture of it, of their personality but sometimes they do not know the right paths to follow to reach the destination they are seeking for. So their career guidance plays it part.

Career counselors are not doctors having the best medicine for everything neither are they magicians, but they have the best possible solutions for your future worries and can help with the right pathway, along with providing all the information needed to go for a suitable career. Along with that, they help in dealing with the stress or anxiety a student faces at this age due to studies and all other pressures.

Aim2excel test is a standardized test that assesses the personality on six parameters including emotional intelligence, social intelligence, personality, motivation, interests, cognitive intelligence. This can help him further in choosing a stream, courses, and careers.

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Want to build your career in hotel management? Here’s all you need to know

Do you think you have a smile that can charm others? Do you think you can lead and manage a team? Do you think you have a creative mind to attract others towards your idea?

Hotel management is basically the management of a hotel, lodge or a motel by a hotel manager/hotelier. He must take care of the whole operation including management of the staff, business management, services provided to the customer, sanitation of the rooms, washrooms, hygiene, kitchen, food and all other facilities and their management and regulation. He must keep a check on everything, especially guest satisfaction, sales management, financial accounting, revenues, and everything.

It requires certain skills

  • Critical thinking skills: one must come up with creative and practical ideas at hand to satisfy a customer also to present his hotel in the best possible way.
  • Social skills: whenever you enter a hotel you will the staff welcoming you with warmth and a bright smile. The manager must deal with the guests and their issues with patience and must provide the best solution.
  • Organizational skills: He must be good at multitasking, as his plate is always full of multiple tasks as managing, finance, sales, and all other tasks that have to be organized well.
  • Business skills: he must have that acumen of business how to make deals, how to be best out of the rest, and how to stay in business by attracting the customers.
  • Creative skills: he must have creative ideas to attract the guests, to think differently.

There are many more traits one must possess in order to be great at hotel management such as:

  • Cooperative,
  • explorative,
  • spontaneous,
  • motivated
  • ability to reason socially

These skills can be assessed through a psychometric test only that also gives an overall idea about the personality and also the interests and talents one possesses. And if it matches the skills required for the desired career.

 

What career pathway to follow to become a hotel manager?

After 10th you must select a stream that will lead you towards your desired career and the subjects you can study for a long period of time.

For hotel management, you can choose any stream Science, Commerce or Arts/Humanities. Whichever you like. As you will have to do a course in hotel management irrespective of your stream.

Here is the list of the courses you can do to become a hotel manager and their respective college.

 

 Courses

Duration

Colleges

Location

B.Sc. in Catering Science and Hotel Management

3 years

International Institute of Hotel Management

Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahemdabad

B.Sc. in Hospitality & Hotel Administration

3 years

Punjab University

Chandigarh

Bachelors of Arts (Hons.) in Hospitality and Tourism

3 years

Institute of Hotel Management and catering (IHMS)

Udaipur

B.Sc in hospitality studies and catering services

3 years

Rizvi college of hotel management

Mumbai

B.Sc in Hospitality and Hotel administration

3 years

Institute of hotel management catering technology and applied nutrition (IHMH)

Hyderabad

 

 

How can career counseling help students?

Career guidance for students is necessary they get clarity of their skills and interests through the tests provided to them by the career counselor and the guidance to set him in the right direction can be really for him. To know if he really possesses the managerial skills or if his interests are major in this field. What should he do after 10th what courses are suitable for him, and the emotional stress he faces throughout his journey can be addressed well by a career counselor.

 

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Career Guidance and opportunities after 12th

Along with preparing for the board exams, one has to deal with the interesting yet really nagging question as ‘What to do after Class 12?’ With a plethora of courses, various streams, entrance exams and career paths to choose from, it is natural for students to get confused about what lies ahead. The career decision post Class 12 is very important and productive as that helps students to have clarity as to how they want to go about further because the right choice leads to a rewarding career prospect.

Keep a note of these questions and choose your career wisely that best fits into your career plan.

  1. What was your stream in class 12th?
  2. What are your key interest areas and skills?
  3. Where your chosen career will lead to in the near future?
  4. What is the layout or roadmap to reach your goal?

Best career options after 12th

  • Gone are the days when a career as an engineer, doctor, chartered accountant and such other core fields was the only good career opportunity that students had.
  • Today there are far more options available that are lucrative and interesting as compared to the ones a few years back.
  • Students are more open to experimenting with new fields and are building careers as psychologists, tea tasters, counselors, animation and graphic designers, professional photographers and other such fields that were completely unheard of.

 

We should not opt for streams/ career just because our friends/siblings/ parents want us to go for. We should listen to our heart and soul, what really interests us, what will work best for us and what doesn’t, the cost involved for that particular field of our choice, pay package and growth prospects.

What to do after 12th

  • Professional courses: (through an entrance exam or choosing an academic degree as Science/Commerce/Humanities)

1. Medicine (Doctor, Pharmacy, Zoology, Microbiology, Physiotherapy, Dietician)

 

 

Entrance exam

College/ University

NEET- UG

For admission in MBBS

AFMC

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune

AIIMS MBBS

AIIMS, New Delhi

AIPVY

All India Pre-Veterinary test to 5years B.Vsc

 

2. Engineering (Joint Entrance Exam-JEE)- Mechanical, Electrical, Computer science, Biotechnology, Petrochemical, Marine engineering.

 

 

Entrance exam

College/ University

JEE Mains

Accepted by all engineering colleges

JEE Advanced

By all IIT’s

VITEEE

VIT University, Vellore

SRMJEEE

SRM, Chennai

IPU CET

Indraprastha University, New Delhi

BITSAT

BITS Pilani

 

3. Law

 

 

Entrance exam

College/ University

CLAT (Common Law Admission Test)

National level law entrance exam

LSAT (Law School Admission Test)

For various law institutes in India

 

  1. Business administration
  2. Computer IT

 

  • Other competitive exams (UPSC, SSC, Railways, UGC)
  1. Bank tests
  2. Government civil services exam
  3. NDA (National Defence Academy)

Career opportunities after 12th

  • Science (Engineering, Defence, Digital expert, Scientist, Researcher, Doctor)
  • Commerce (Charter Accountant, Financial Advisor, Human resource manager)
  • Humanities (Political science, Language, Psychology, Liberal Arts, Sociology, Hospitality, Law, Social worker, Journalism)

Take your time, assess your interest areas and skills, explore all the possible options/opportunities, seek career guidance and counseling from experienced counselors and professionals at Aim2Excel. Happy and successful career building! Strive and Thrive!