Malik Shahzaib
Many students face failures in universities and in practical life because they are not properly guided about their goals. Besides, they are confused about their skills, they don’t explore themselves, they have no idea about their strengths and weaknesses. Most people in Pakistan live in rural areas. In the rural areas most students study in government schools, in government schools teachers don’t pay attention to individual student. Students have to work on their own, because there is no concept of guidance. Moreover, middle class family’s elders are uneducated. If in any family there is no educated elder,their student studying in school won’t be able to get any guidance regarding future fields. Schools teachers don’t judge students skills they just come into class, teach lessons and end the class. Now my question is who will guide the student about his career? Obviously it is upto student himself to choose his field for future studies in colleges or universities. When students complete their matric they have to choose one field for intermediate education, there are three choices before them, biology, engineering and arts. Here students who are not properly guided about their career and are unaware about their inner skills choose the wrong field which don’t meet their skills. For example, the student who has no interest in science ,somehow he is forced or by his own mistake he takes admission into F.Sc. Like in past he had no interest in science, now he has chosen science field, ultimately he will fail because his concepts are not clear, he will go into depression, no doubt they work hard but it is clear this field is not for them,in the end most students are left with one option,suicide.Students have to choose science as field for future studies because our society knows about two fields,first one is engineering and second one is medical field.People thinks that arts students are not intelligent as compared to science students,so they face high sarcasm,other students laugh at them. In west career counselling starts from primary education.In their schools it is included as a separate subject,teachers guide students about their future goals,and help students in exploring their skills.So when students reach the level of higher education they are quite sure about their goals and their strengths.Unfortunately,in Pakistan there are very few career counselling institutions,even if there are any institutions students are unaware of them,besides these institutions offices are in major cities like Islamabad,karachi,Lahore e.t.c.While majority of students live in rural areas.There is dire need of these institutions in rural areas,and it is my request to family elders to take their students to these institutions. Students studying in O/A levels ,8th, 9th, 10th, F.S.c, F.A and intermediate levels they must visit these institutions. These institutions take AI based aptitude tests and other multidimensional career counselling tests, after taking these tests it become easy for students to test themsleves.He learns what skills he is good at,In this way all his confusions become clear.When he reaches university life ,there he performs well,because he is happy with his own field.He don’t get into that field by chance. I have some friends who wanted to become engineer or doctors but now they are studying literature with me.Because they could not perform well in their entry tests.But it was their passion and interest so why they gave up?They could wait few months and could appear in the next entry tests in next years.They would have certainly made it in the next year.But they were not properly guided so they took their admission in the irrelevant fields and now they are not content with their life.That’s why career counseling is more important for students.Like west,there should be a separate subject as career counselling for students in the schools ,starting from primary education. Moreover, now online websites are freely giving these career counselling services.Where students can take aptitude tests and can test themselves.Here I would mention one website ‘merafuture.pk’,students can explore their own skills by taking aptitude tests in this website,they can explore other online websites also on their own.
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