Life After Boards — Career Guidance After 12 Boards are a important milestone in the lives of Indian students. 12th boards are in fact very critical for science students because maximum science students aspire to pursue one or the other professional career like medicine and engineering. What after 12th is an aspired path for many. But many students realize the level of difficulty or the disinterest in subjects chosen only when they start their academics by 11th standard.
Then comes the insecurity of “after 12th what?” The insecurity is not only among students preparing for medical or engineering or law or for professional courses like the mentioned ones, the confusion and insecurity also looms large over the students who want to do something difficult than classic careers. The perceived notion of engineering is only to do with Physics chemistry and maths is wrong. There are many engineering careers which are a combination of biology and chemistry, biology and information technology, biology and physics , biology and mathematics. Therefore someone with varied interests and abilities like biology and math, or drawing and math or physics only can have different and successful careers. Similarly, for commerce students , there are many options like computer applications, business administration, actuarial science and so on, apart from the classic options like Chartered accountancy, company secretary, cost accountant. Arts students too have varied options apart from Bachelor of arts. Someone with good design sense, good oratory abilities, good with writing have multiple careers in the field of mass media, marketing and so on. All these options should be probed through a good and experienced career counselor. Career guidance session after 12th allows you to be more specific about your career choice and also gives you exposure about latest careers and the trends. This way, you go prepared with course that would in demand when it is your time to launch your career.