Choosing the right career is a very challenging task especially in a world, which offers an array of paths. A wrong choice of career can affect a student’s life. Career Guidance can help one in pursuing the right courses in the right colleges or institutes and can help choose a suitable career. A chosen career is satisfying only if you have made the right choice. As a famous adage goes “if you choose the job you love, you don’t have to work a single day in your life.”
Students often commit mistakes while choosing suitable courses or careers because there is more scope of a chance than choice in it. They are also not aware of their capabilities and potentials. So here begins the role of a guidance counselor. Realizing its moral and social responsibilities, Baba Farid Group of Institutions established the Department of Career Guidance & Counseling, which runs a program of guidance and counseling throughout the year. The whole program is bifurcated into two spans. First is the guidance program, which is scheduled from October to February and the second, counseling session, which starts in March and lasts up to July. During the Guidance session, BFGI students as well as students from far and near are invited on the campus and are made aware of the variety of study programs and career options available to them, whereas the counseling program helps them to choose the career according to their interest and ability. Students are counseled based on their career tests and aptitude test. All this is done free of cost where generally people have to spend a lot for these tests. Moreover, the students desirous for these sessions are provided free transport facility. Guidance and Counseling program is being run for the last 13 years and more than 60000 students have attended this program.
Aptitude Test
For the benefit of students aptitude test has been put online. To take online aptitude test a student should go to the BFGI website i.e. www.babafaridgroup.edu.in and there he/she finds a link to take the online aptitude test. More than 30,000 students have taken this test so far.
Radio Programme for Career Guidance
We are also providing Career Guidance & Counseling through Radio Channel to help students in choosing their career options, besides informing them about various courses.
Personal Counselling
Thousands of students of other schools and BFGI students from secondary to graduation level have benefitted with personal counseling by our career guidance and counseling experts
Career Camps
The department has been running this guidance program since 2006 and career camps have been organized in which career counselors of national and international fame have addressed the students.
Career Webinar Series
During the era of COVID 19 pendamic online career Webinars services has been started under which webinars for students of different levels were made to interact with personalities as well as Experts. Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE; Padama Bushan Prof. SS Johal Chancellor, Central University of Punjab, Padam Shri Prof. Sharad P Kale, BARC, Mumbai; Prof. R.K. Kohli, Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Punjab; Prof. Raj Bahadur Vice Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Science; Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Prof. Mohan Pal Singh Ishar, Vice Chancellor, MRSPTU; Sh. Chander Mohan, DST; Ms. Usha Albuquerque, Career Coucellor and Dr. GS Bajwa are some of the names worth mentioning.