Title of the book: From Confusion to Clarity
Author: Divya Majhi
Pages: 204 (Paperback)
Genre: Guidance
Amazon Link: https://amzn.in/d/jb9QodZ
A comprehensive career counselling guide for school children
Career decisions are usually the most crucial decisions in a student’s life. With limited knowledge about various career paths and options available at the school level, many students end up making career choices that either cause them to struggle or are unaligned with their future plans. When a child enters Grade 9, parents’ worries wrt their child’s career start growing.
Divya Majhi’s book is a comprehensive guide for students and parents that guides them in making well-informed decisions for their child’s career. In the world of the internet and AI, where there’s a flood of information scattered around us, this book consolidates all the relevant information, ranging from choosing the right curriculum (CBSE, ICSE, IB, IGCSE) to the criteria and correct method for stream selection through Psychometric Assessment, Career Mapping, and SWOT analysis.
Ms. Majhi, who is a career counsellor herself with an MBA and Green Belt Certification, has made the effort to offer almost 40-50 pages long list of wide career options that are available in the modern era after choosing various streams, viz. commerce, humanities, or sciences, shattering traditional belief of engineer, doctor, lawyer, or teacher as the only renowned professions. Design and creative arts, fashion and lifestyle, film and media studies, SEO content strategist, data science, agriculture, environmental studies, VR/AR developer, quantum computing specialist, whistleblowing officer, diversity and inclusion officer, and credit analyst, to name a few unique careers from her list.
How to pursue these careers, you ask? Well, she has been thoughtful enough to provide a list of undergraduate and postgraduate level entrance exams that one needs to appear in order to pursue various careers.
The book also provides tips for profile building and guidelines for studying abroad. There are templates for study schedule, daily/weekly study plan, study progress tracker, time blocking tracker and whatnot! And if you are still left with some questions, I’m sure she has these covered in her FAQ section.
The book is like a mentor who’s guiding you/your child at every juncture of his/her career journey. Being a mother of two teenagers, this book immensely helped me by offering guidance for most of my queries, truly moving us from confusion to clarity.