My insights : Ushree

Major concern in this phase of transition : ‘Empathy’ ‘Reality’ ‘Expert guidance’

Graduate student Recent graduate Parents Friends Career counselor Human Resource professional Unemployed

Graduate student – forces motivate them : career options of previous students, role models in their fields of choice, similarly, lack of opportunities and competition in their field of interest often de-motivate them , besides, in the era of globalization international and domestic job market play a crucial role

Hurdles : failure to follow their true instinct, lack of faith in their own creativity, risk averseness, societal/parental pressure, lack of confidence

Career counselor: helps in career exploration, personal career development, career change, and other career related issues. While an HR may have industry specific understanding, a career counselor may give an overall idea about trends and opportunities in job market/preferences of job seekers

Though, in many cases people avoid professional career counselor, instead, they find advice from their superiors or peers working in the same line more useful. Sometimes, career counselor just force the student to go for popular trades with market demand neglecting their natural talent, inclination and interest.

Graduate student: What do you want to do once you get your degree? Who are the people influence you most to make your career choices? What motivates you most while designing your future course of action? Money/social status/ your own

interest/ parent’s preference / peers/ senior’s career choices/ digital media / social media / others What do you think of your ability of risk taking? High/low/moderate Share your childhood dreams about your career? What prohibits you from pursuing this? If get a chance, without any restriction, where do you see yourself after 5 years from now? Given a chance, are you willing to change your career?

Career counselor: Tell me something about your clientele? (age group, social background, level of education ,

expertise ) Do you think people come to you only when they fail to understand what to do with their career? What are their major concerns while deciding about future course of action? While advising them what are the major areas you focus on mostly? Security/ money/ future

opportunity/ to identify their natural inclination and guide them / international-national trend/ upcoming technologies

Do you consider psychological aspect of your client? Do you think you are updated enough to guide clients about their career?

‘ childhood dream of becoming a chef’ ‘criticism from family-friends discourage me’‘do not like to play with numbers ..a sort of

compulsion’ ‘seniors from our classes are all hired by IT

majors’‘if I have enough money I can think of a

career change’‘just want to make sure that my family and

friends appreciate my achievement..’

Uncertainty Peer pressure Risk averseness Disliking about his next career move

Money is main hindrance that deter people from experimenting with their career

They have limited choices to explore Career counseling after / during graduation

and school years are not so popular In most cases graduate students make

their career moves based on social/family expectation

Stakeholder

Problem/Need

Insight

An engineering graduate student Creative Diverse interest Belongs to middle income group family Only son Ambitious Risk averse

Not sure whether to look for opportunities in other field

Hesitate to express his likings Submissive Looking for security and job satisfaction

Volatility in IT sector is a major reason behind his dilemma

Monotonous nature of job Societal pressure and expectation Unsure of changing his career Never thought of taking insights form

expertsrs before joining the course