Choosing your career is an important step because your future is at stake. To think and act big is indispensable to rise rapidly in your career.
Don’t know which career you are best cut out for?
Have you zeroed-in on a career but have a nagging doubt you might have overlooked more desirable options?
Unsure about which courses or streams to choose?
Truly, choosing the right career is hugely confusing for almost everyone in high school or college. Also, it is one of life’s most difficult — and most important — decisions.


But relax; now you have help. . .

Career Guidance?
To assist people to make educational, training and occupational choices.
Helps to reflect ambitions, interests, qualifications and abilities.
To understand the labour market and education systems.
To teach people to plan and make decisions about work and learning.


WHY SHOULD STUDENTS, PARENTS and Institutions START THINKING ABOUT guidance seminars?

• Avoid the anxiety associated with the college admissions process.
• Gain confidence and remain calm as they move through the process.
• Make informed choices during freshman through senior years

The Urgent Need Career Guidance
While academic merit is generally pivotal in making an entry into any career an individual's level of understanding, his application of knowledge and professional training are necessary. Personality and even one's outlook towards life is general and career, in particular, plays a significant role in ensuring continuous progress. It is generally observed that a large section of students are unaware of what they want to achieve in life. Undoubtedly it may result in waste of precious time as well as money. This underscores the need for setting a meaningful and attainable goal.
In taking such a decision one must keep in mind one's qualification, interests, knowledge, experience, if any, attitude, potentialities, and existing trends in the job market. Knowing your weakness and strength enables you to set a meaningful and attainable goal.
Whatever be your choice, it is necessary to identify and explore the opportunities that are available.
First of all, you need to have a clear understanding of what you want to be. It must be your determinations to fulfill the requirements that are needed to enable you achieve your goal. It means you have to acquire the required academic qualification followed by professional qualification and training in your particular field. Once you have these you will be able to compete.
It has been observed keenly that academics are not always the best measuring yard stick for the career preference and aptitude of the student.

How can Santa Monica help the student to make an informed decision?
Hundreds of thousands of students ask questions about courses, careers and institutes that they should opt for, preferred destinations, training, costs, facilities, exams, test papers and so on. Career guidance cell of “Santa Monica” answers all these questions professionally through its free career guidance seminars, comprehensive database of FAQs, experts, phones, chat, emails, and educational articles.
In order to bring about complete clarity in the mind of the student, career counseling should be effected early, as soon as the student takes admission, and not as popularly believed at the end of the course. The reason why it makes sense to carry out the counseling sessions early is that when the student will learn about their aptitude well in advance, they can concentrate on their identified direction and excel at it, rather than flounder through all the courses only to find in the end what exactly they should have concentrated upon.
Recognizing this need, we are ready to the following programs :

• Organize lectures/ seminars/ talks etc to get an idea about CAREER.
• Group discussion among the students from their own institutions - whereby the favorite trends, myths, beliefs, and reality of the market situation is thrashed out
• Organize mock interviews where the students gain valuable insights of what the interviewer is look for and at when the interview is going on
• Promotion of entrepreneurship-whereby a student need not seek a job, but become a creator of jobs
• Facilitate personality development - whereby the student gains confidence and is able to use his/her strengths better to reach their professional goals
• Keep students informed about opportunities to study abroad as well as work abroad and provide adequate backward and forward linkages.
• Offer help and guidance for students who want to train for IELTS, GRE, TOEFL etc
• Get Career Advice & Counseling from the Best of Counselors.

CAREER PLANNING
Before you embark upon planning your career you may have to consider two issues:

1. Do you need an immediate job because of some adverse family circumstances?
2. Is your family financially sounds enough to pay for your professional education?

Career planning should be preceded by two steps:

1. Assess your strengths and weaknesses, likings, aptitudes and interests.
2. Gather as much information as possible about the various educational opportunities and choose one that conforms to your assessment.

SANTA MONICA helps you discover your best career options
What if somebody could guide you to career options that best match your interests and aspirations? SANTA MONICA does just that!
It matches your personality with careers which you will find most fulfilling – and which you are likely to be most successful at.

How SANTA MONICA put you on the right track
All you need to do is to answer some simple questions about your interests, what activities you find interesting, what occupations you dream of, or aspire to…uncomplicated stuff like that which you will not only enjoy doing but which will set you thinking more clearly about yourself. And, it will take you only 1.30-1.45 hours to do so.
Based on the information you provide, you will get:

1. An easy-to-understand report highlighting your personality and aptitude – and why you would be most successful in the careers recommended.
2. A select list of career options, specially picked for you from over 1,500 occupations, which are compatible with your interests and personality. These are the careers where you are likely to find most job satisfaction and success. In other words, careers which are just right for you!
3. Higher study options suitable for you from over 1250 different fields of study;
4. A road-map for further exploration; and
5. Suggestions whether you might benefit from one-on-one expert personal counseling.
6. Providing Consultancy Service and Training to Schools and colleges from the area for System Development and Certification.
7. Conducting Trainers Training Programs, Life Skill and Leadership Training Programs, Parenting, Effective Teaching, Study Habits etc.

How to Go About It
By email: You can contact us on careerguidance@santamonicaedu.in
In Person: You can visit our office to complete between 10am and 6pm on any working day at the below address:
Santa Monica Study Abroad Pvt Ltd,
Bio Arcade Building,
Layam Road, Cochin- 682 011,
Kerala

Come, choose the career that suits you best.

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