Career guidance is not a new concept and its roots can be traced back to ancient times. However, career guidance in its present form, owes its origin to US and other developed countries. Career guidance encompasses information, guidance and counseling services to assist in making educational training and occupational choice.
Career guidance and counseling programmes in SVECW aim to provide assistance and advice to students to make them more powerful and better informed so that they can become architects in building their own future. It helps the students realize their strengths and weaknesses by instilling self awareness, decision making skills, planning skills, personality development etc.
A separate cell, with a well-equipped air-conditioned conference training room and separate well-furnished rooms for mock interviews and counseling, has been set up and permanent training staff are appointed to work with a full-time Dean. Encouraging students to sharpen their skills and make them ‘Industry Ready.’
Objectives:
- To help students share knowledge about themselves by identifying skills, and interests.
- To provide information about further course prerequisites, financial aid, academic planning, entrance examinations etc.
- To promote career guidance & counseling through lectures by senior corporate executives and visiting professors.
- To organize seminars on interview skills, personality development, communication skills, leadership skills, resume writing, analytical skills, quantitative ability, verbal and reasoning skills essential to all competitive exams.
GRE / TOEFL :
Special training is provided to students who are aspiring for higher education abroad. It focuses on Verbal, Quantitative and Reasoning skills along with Analytical Writing Assessment. A good number of students from different branches utilized the services and progressing in different universities abroad.
GATE:
Higher Educational pursuits are one of the major goals of most of the students of SVECW. Helping them in realizing their goals the institution is offering regularly GATE training classes. Though the record of GATE ranks in SVECW is less initially there is gradual ascendancy.
IES, IFS & IAS:
With the academic commitment of the student fraternity SVECW always brings forward any initiative that widens the scope of the career of the students. Eventually a special training for the students who are interested in taking up a career at IES, IAS, IAF, etc.has been started recently and completed the required formative training.
