Student Counselling Business Plan
BEACON CAREER COUNCELLING CENTRE
THE BUSINESS CONCEPT – MISSION Origin of the idea can be traced back to the situation every student is confronted with at any significant level of education such as 10th, 12th and graduation. Most of the students are completely unaware about the array of fields available for pursuing career in to. The choice of career is mostly governed by the marks one scores in the qualifying exam like 10th. High scoring students invariably go to science field, while those next in line are always advised to pursue career in commerce field and remaining supposedly “incapable” students have to opt for arts field. Moreover, after 12th exam, science students mainly go for medical or engineering graduation, ignoring other available specializations. Similarly, commerce students end up choosing either CA or CS which are well-known specializations. The situation for arts students is even abysmal. As a result, we have an engineering graduate who has to forget about his ability to paint marvellous pictures, the condition which results in to loss of a potential painter and frustration on the part of the student. The service that we intend to provide can simply be expressed as career counselling for aspiring candidates. But the scope of the mission is not limited to just guiding a student to established career choices but to understand the candidate as a person, consider his family background and then providing him with the most suitable options. Uniqueness of the idea is easily apparent from the situation that at least in Pune urban area, no such service is provided which has such a wide scope and which dedicatedly revolves around the student. THE PROBLEM A well-known Marathi actor Dr. Shriram Lagoo correctly depicts the problem we intend to address. He studied medicine in B.J. Medical College Pune, went to Mumbai to become an ENT surgeon and even practiced medicine for quite some time. Not before long, he ventured out to do what he had always
THE BUSINESS CONCEPT – MISSION Origin of the idea can be traced back to the situation every student is confronted with at any significant level of education such as 10th, 12th and graduation. Most of the students are completely unaware about the array of fields available for pursuing career in to. The choice of career is mostly governed by the marks one scores in the qualifying exam like 10th. High scoring students invariably go to science field, while those next in line are always advised to pursue career in commerce field and remaining supposedly “incapable” students have to opt for arts field. Moreover, after 12th exam, science students mainly go for medical or engineering graduation, ignoring other available specializations. Similarly, commerce students end up choosing either CA or CS which are well-known specializations. The situation for arts students is even abysmal. As a result, we have an engineering graduate who has to forget about his ability to paint marvellous pictures, the condition which results in to loss of a potential painter and frustration on the part of the student. The service that we intend to provide can simply be expressed as career counselling for aspiring candidates. But the scope of the mission is not limited to just guiding a student to established career choices but to understand the candidate as a person, consider his family background and then providing him with the most suitable options. Uniqueness of the idea is easily apparent from the situation that at least in Pune urban area, no such service is provided which has such a wide scope and which dedicatedly revolves around the student. THE PROBLEM A well-known Marathi actor Dr. Shriram Lagoo correctly depicts the problem we intend to address. He studied medicine in B.J. Medical College Pune, went to Mumbai to become an ENT surgeon and even practiced medicine for quite some time. Not before long, he ventured out to do what he had always