Importance of online career counselling in India

In India where 85% of its students are deeply concerned about their options for higher education, an abysmal proportion of 92% don't get even the tiniest form of career related guidance from their schools. And apparently, the country is facing an acute shortage of able career development professionals. According to latest statistical reports, we are at least half a million short.

Today we live in such exciting times where each and everyday the old technologies are being disrupted and newer ones replacing them. Undoubtedly, AI and Data Science are the buzzwords of the new age. With companies and industries constantly innovating to match up, careers that were completely unheard of a decade has started to gain prominence.

But until recently, before the world was not a global village as we see it today, career counselling had been perceived as a sort of need that was met with the bare minimum effort from those who have always claimed to provide these services. Career counselling were practised by individuals who were just a database from where we get superficial career information like the list of careers that are in “scope” today or the application deadlines for admission into a specific institution. And people had to “satisfy” themselves with whatever mediocre service was available in their vicinity.

Thankfully, this is changing, as the country wakes up to the modern age of technology, revolutionizing all aspects of life as it has been traditionally lived in India, including the previously untouched sphere of career counselling. We at Hikewise wanted to be the flag bearers of this change and we believe that our country deserves much better in a very important field like career guidance which has a direct impact on how its future generations would shape up. And this belief is what has motivated us to create the highly scientific Hikewise mechanism which is designed to work at a personalised level for each individual and successfully provides a proper solution to their problems and requirements that are completely unique.

What makes our mechanism work is its holistic approach which is not just limited to psychometric traits but takes into consideration multiple other factors that are important in an individual’s career development process. These factors include their socio-economic background, past academic performance, leadership and other organisational skills, talents in specific fields, religious and cultural background and also the parent’s perspective about the individual.