Experience a personalized unique career journey
Are you looking for career guidance, here’s an online platform customized for YOU. How artificial intelligence and machine learning is reaching 21 million adolescents helping them access educational and work-related resources and opportunities.
Attention IX-XII grade students! If you were offered a customized career counselling and guidance services that are gender-inclusive, share information on career options for children with disabilities, have a gamified approach for navigation, are mobile, laptop and tablet-friendly, and most of all provide a personalized, unique career journey through artificial intelligence and machine learning – how would that make you feel? Interested?
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), UNICEF India, and technical partner iDream Career Private Limited have launched an online portal for career guidance and counselling, https://cbsecareerguidance.com/, linked to the main CBSE portal.
The portal has information on various careers, courses, scholarships, and examinations for students from grades IX to XII. All CBSE School students will be able to sign up on the portal with their details and access a personalised career dashboard that will also be accessible to teachers and administrators.
The portal with entire career curriculum will be offered to students at no cost, students with personalized log in will have access to 560+ careers options (English, Hindi and eight other languages), 25,000 colleges and vocational institutes spanning over 300,000 courses, 1200 scholarships and 1150 Entrance Exams.
Two teachers/counsellors per school will be trained on the portal through a digital training session and given a personal counsellor dashboard to access the entire career curriculum and use it to guide the students for their career queries. This will build their knowledge base on career guidance.
An additional 90 hours of self-paced online training will be offered to teachers/counsellors on their dashboard, where they can complete the entire course and get certified as a career counsellor (after clearing the online assessments for various modules). This course is currently being developed with UNICEF's support over the next few months.
"It is imperative for the students to understand their learning strengths and weaknesses and have realistic goals commensurate with their capabilities. Guidance and counselling serve the basic needs of each individual as a unique entity, as there are perceptible differences among individuals in native capacities, abilities, and interests. Equally significant are the changes within the individual over time, driven by maturity and exposure. Besides, Guidance also enhances positive attributes of an individual which help to build a positive self- image".
The primary aim of the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) is to develop a vibrant and transformative school education sector that ensures the realisation of each learner's unique potential and provides a safe and stimulating learning environment for all students and teachers.
The NEP 2020 proposes an overhaul of existing teaching-learning patterns to optimise learners’ academic and vocational capabilities. CBSE has taken on the task of effectively implementing an online portal for Career Guidance and Counselling for class IX-XII students across all affiliated schools in the same context.
"To bring scale, speed and standard to the career guidance process, CBSE has dovetailed these objectives to develop a holistic integrated vision for career guidance and counselling for building knowledge and skills of students and to make them ‘Future Ready’. CBSE has brought on board a consultative group of experts from industry, academia, and government to prepare the roadmap for the future. Likewise, CBSE has collaborated with UNICEF and its trusted technical partner, iDream Career Private Limited, to set up a dynamic online system for career guidance and counselling.
Young people, especially girls, in India have limited knowledge and skills for self-development and to transition smoothly from school to higher education or work.
To support adolescents (grades 9 to 12 students) to manage their career pathways and lifelong learning, UNICEF, along with 13 state governments and the private sector has customized career portals in regional languages, reaching 21 million adolescents, helping them access educational and work-related resources and opportunities.
The career portal offers information on careers, college directories, courses from several countries, scholarships and competitive entrance exams.
As the learners in schools come from diverse cultural, linguistic, social, and economic backgrounds, equal access to all is essential. CBSE will help create an enabling school environment to ensure an all-inclusive, strong institutional support system for concurrent motivation and capacity building of all students and teachers.
The recently set up Career Guidance and Counselling Information Centre (CGCIC) in CBSE will lend a hand to ensure a Career Counselling Cell in every school, create awareness of the career portal to promote its usage among students and also chalk out different offline strategies of providing uninterrupted guidance facilities to students.
"The pandemic has heightened concerns among millions of young people about their future livelihoods and skills needed to thrive in the 21st century. UNICEF has supported career guidance portals across several states to empower adolescents and young people to make informed educational and occupational choices, that support their social, financial and emotional well-being. UNICEF is pleased to partner with the Central Board of Secondary Education, with the technical partnership of iDream Career, to develop the CBSE Career Guidance portal, which will enable students in India to access information on career pathways, regardless of their school affiliation.
