Often influenced by limited career guidance, parental input, peer pressure, and marks scored, many high school students in India face uncertainty when choosing streams like science, commerce, or arts. This is a stage where the future begins to feel real to a student. What subjects match their interests? Which stream should they choose? What career can they build?
How is Venus Foundation Helping?
At Venus Foundation, we believe students deserve more. They need guidance, exposure, and the confidence to understand their own strengths. Through our Edupath counselling initiative, our professionals from respective fields are helping students to start making their own life decisions.
As part of this campaign, our team conducted counselling sessions for students across schools in Panchkula. For all sessions, the goal was the same: to help them identify their strengths and make them aware of the possible career choices in science, arts, commerce, as well as vocational courses.
To ensure the effectiveness of each session, we shared a feedback form before and after to record their preferences and responses, respectively. Honestly, this also served as a tool to ensure they’re becoming confident in decision-making. On that note, here’s our journey so far.
Govt. Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary School, Sector 20, Panchkula
At this school, Venus Foundation conducted a series of counselling sessions to ensure continued exposure and support. The emphasis was that career choices should be based on 3 factors: interests, market demand, and earning capabilities.
To begin with, we shared a form that tests their potential knowledge around streams, career options, and hobbies. It opened up the conversation about interest-based career opportunities.
In the next session, we connected students' academic preferences with their personal interests and long-term goals. After all, you can’t be a theoretical physicist while being bad at physics. The interaction helped them better understand the importance of informed decisions.
The following sessions focused on strengthening clarity through personal discussions. This made them engage actively and curiously about career options and vocational routes. With time, students continued to gain confidence and express their concerns through questions, activities, and feedback.
Govt. Senior Secondary School, Sector 19, Panchkula
Our Edupath journey began with this school. The session started with the introduction of the students. Later, we explained to them the importance of choosing the right academic path with awareness and confidence. Through discussions and interactions that busted some typical myths and cleared their doubts, students were encouraged to think beyond the traditional fields.
Our team of professionals assessed their interests to match their career options with their potential and ambitions. They engaged students in discussions around their aspirations, answered their questions, and created an open environment where they felt comfortable sharing their thoughts and problems.
Venus Foundation aims to reach more schools and support more students in the future. Because when the future of our nation is guided carefully, they’re serving a bigger purpose than just earning money.
