Here’s an interview with the best in business Nithya Sriram, an educational psychologist, a certified career counselor, and running many organizations. You can also become a certified Career counselor .
Q. Tell us how did you get to know about careerguide?
For the past three years, she collaborated with carrerguide under various activities and events , she did the certification course much earlier when careerguide was “mera careerguide.” She was in one of the firsts batches of certification. She has done all the certification courses provided by careerguide.
Q. Tell us why did you decide to be in careerguide? Tell us about your journey as a career coach, educational psychologist, and certified counselor.
Her psychologist’s journey to a counselor started when she saw students in 2nd and 3rd year of college struggling, and she thought she could help some if not all of them (She has mentored around 1500 students in the last few years, and she counseled about 3000-4000 engineering graduates). She has a daughter who just finished 12th grade and is pursuing engineering along with an analytics course.
Q. Tell us more about your educational background. And tell us more about Gyandeep.
She started her career as an applied microbiologist and not as a psychologist, and she spent 5 to 7 years in the food industry. Along with marriage and jumping to different continents, she could not manage it, and she ultimately settled in London. Here, she was classroom assistance in a school with kids having different abilities. To understand this better, she did a psychology course from madras university, and after this, she did her RCI (special needs training). She helped many kids after this; some are enrolled in graphic designing, one is into podcasts, who is a B. Com graduate. Get enrolled in CERTIFICATION COURSE FOR GUIDING COLLEGE STUDENTS .
Q. Do you feel this is beyond money where you can impact the students’ life in a very different manner? You are their mentor, guide..
She said, “yes, absolutely; when you are a successful career coach, very soon you will realize that it’s not about the money . It is about the success of the people whom you have mentored or guided.” Mrs. Nithya runs the organization Gyan deep for specially-abled students. Along with this, she is also a part of a group called “careers4sure,” which came together with alumni of careerguide. They are a group of 8 to 10 people working in the field of career counseling and are very successful in their business.
Q. As careerguide runs a community of career counselors for a very long time, how do you feel it helped in your self-development and development in your career? How do you think about collaboration with other counselors?
Mrs. Nithya said that she learned about collaboration from careerguide. During her one course at careerguide, they collaborated with the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), where they counseled around 500 students. She also added that you don’t share your success when you collaborate, but you increase it by ten times, as you would be able to reach out to more students.
Q. If we take that you invested, let’s say X amount of money in careerguide, how do you feel about the rate of interest (ROI) you gained after the courses?
She categorized her ROI in two ways- direct and indirect. Under direct ROI, she said that she gained a minimum of 4 to 5 times what she invested in careerguide. Through careerguide, she gave on-call counseling to students, and she also participated in the opportunities posted by careerguide. These all were the direct ROI from careerguide. Her contacts she made in careerguide refer students to her for counseling which she also includes in direct ROI. In indirect ROI, she quoted that “careers4sure” exits because of services provided by careerguide.
Q. What are the services you are giving right now at gyandeep and careers for sure? And, how can viewers reach out to you?
She specializes in anything regarding special needs education, vocations, or how to get exemptions for dyslexic, dyscalculic kids, or even blind kids. In addition to this, gyandeep also work with women looking for a second chance in their lives, where they put up classes for coaching and mentoring programs where they can get back to their careers after a break due to various reasons. They have different success stories in this field. Like a woman restarting her career as a kindergarten teacher is currently vice-principal of a leading school and many more.
In careers4sure, they move from business to business (B2B), counseling various college students across India. Here, they also provide services to working professionals in resume writing, linked optimization and coaching and mentoring, etc. Talk to certified career counsellors right now .
Q. And for the final question, what is your final word for aspiring career counselors and existing career counselors?
- For existing career counselors, she added that “opportunities don’t happen; you have to create them.” There are many successful career counselors, she what they are doing, learn from them,don’t stop learning. Just look around; there are opportunities; you just have to go out and get them.
- Secondly, train yourselves, don’t just go for learning through various certificate courses but also practice more in the real-life field, put those learnings into practice.
- Third, don’t hesitate to intern, whatever your age be.
- Fourth, at each stage of your career, you need a mentor who has been in that stage and has done that. Identify your mentor, ask them for help and guidance.
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