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Assessment Services for Guidance, Counseling and Right Selection

Assessment Services include the administration of the Psychometric tests and Self-Assessment Profiles with   the aim 

• to guide the Individual to set goals as per his own Ability, Interest and Aptitude on the basis of scores derived on the tests in context of Educational and Vocational Services.

• to measure one’s potential and accordingly predict his/her ability to fit into the required Profile in context of Corporate Services. 

• Academic and Occupational performance, levels of achievement are also predicted on the basis of the results of assessment.

 About Psychometric Tests 

• Psychometric Tests like other tests are measuring devises to obtain a score on Inert Cognitive Functions of Brain such as General Intelligence, Specific Aptitudes, Educational Achievement, Vocational          Fitness and Personality Traits.

• These tests are Standardized, Reliable and Valid.

• In the context of an assessment services, the range of standardized measurement instrument include the following: 

• Achievement tests                        

• Ability tests                           

• Aptitude test

• Intelligence tests                  

• EQ tests              

About Self Assessment Profiles

Self Assessment Tools used for rendering Assessment Services are in the form of: 

• Interest Inventories            

• Problem Checklist    

• Personality Profiles

Methods and Resources

• Individual G&C Sessions

• Group G&C Sessions

• Debates, Brainstorming

• Group Discussions

• Group skills Workshops

• Visits to the Institutions

• Visits to Industries

• Assessment techniques

• Interviews

• Training Programs

• Orientation Programs

• On Line Testing

Corporate Counseling - For Organizational & Employee Benefits / Attitude management

Corporate Counseling is undertaken with the dual purpose of Organizational Benefits and Employee Benefits. The process involves Attitude Management or change in Attitude of Employee and workers. 

Key topics in Corporate Developmental Programs include:

• Personal Development

• Assertiveness

• Goal Setting Skills

• Managerial Effectiveness

• Stress management

• Time Management

• Conflict Resolution

• General life Skills

• Effective Communication

• Spill Over Effect’ between work & family

• Organizational Excellence

• Dual Role Stress for Working Women

• Work Involvement

We help the Organizations 

• In the selection of Human Resources ‘The Right Person’ as per their specific Requirement through our Assessment Services.

• Training the employees to be;

• Effective Resources for the Organization

• Maintain and Develop Healthy Organizational Climate & Culture

• Develop Managerial Skills such as

•     Team Building, Leadership Qualities, Conflict resolution,   

•     Delegation of Work, Reducing Work Stress etc.

Mental Health Counseling - Cognitive Care

Development Programs for Mental Health aim at

Mental Development which includes 

• taking care of the cognitive mechanisms as emotions, perception, decision making, reasoning etc.

• dealing with personality traits and situations which are causes for mental unrest such as 

• inferiority/superiority complex

•  introversion/extroversion

• over-dependency

• asocial behavior

• amoral behavior

• social outbursts

• the stress busters causing depression, frustration, anger etc

• maintaining positive attitude

“As Medical Advice is Essential for the Maintenance of Physical Health, so is Psychological Counseling for the Maintenance of MENTAL HEALTH.”

Educational Guidance & Counseling

Academic OR Institutional Counseling - Teacher Training & Recruitment of Teachers

Academic OR Institutional Counseling

• It involves working with the client (STUDENTS), in the following target areas;

• Psychometric Testing

• Learning and Memorizing Skills

• Success in Exams

• Healthy Approach towards Examination

• Self Discipline for Studies

• Time Management ; everyday/ before exam

The Guidance Counselor motivates learning and enhances learning skills which result in excellent performance which is truly an Achievement Oriented Guidance and Counseling.

Further, the Guidance Counselor helps an individual to discover his/her potentials and set further Academic goals and in the process tries to match the individual’s ability, interest and aptitude with education opportunities.

It also includes enabling wards to:

• Adjust to school environment

• Coping with ‘Underachievement’

• Trying to Cope with Holistic Growth of physical, mental, social, emotional and moral developments specially during Adolescence.

• Dealing with Learning Disabilities

Training Programs for Teachers

• Teachers also benefit from Guidance and Counseling Programs which aims at guiding teachers to have:

  • Effective Teaching Techniques

  • Disciplining Strategies using rewards and punishment

  • Motivating the under-achievers,

  • Increase the performance level of students,

  • Role of Teacher’s expectation

Areas and topics of teacher’s interest as suggested by the institutions are also taken up in the sessions.

• The skills are imparted during

  • Lectures

  • Workshops

  • Orientation Programs
     

Recruitment of Teachers

• Our Assessment Services assist in the recruitment of Teachers by administering the Psychometric Tests on the Candidates.

• Interviews and Mock Teaching Sessions are also organized to select the most appropriate candidate.

Career / Vocational Guidance & Counseling

Individualized Career-Path planning/Employment Placement

• It involves Career and Vocational guidance for all age groups.

• It aims to facilitate the client’s Career & Vocational decision making in a Non Directive way i.e., we suggest but the decision is made by the individual.

• A session with the client enables the Counselor to assess possible career interests and then likewise guide the individual about job opportunities and information about job availability followed by an evaluation of the client’s ability to understand and use the given information to make career decisions, taking into account financial and domestic issues.

• The Guidance Counselor also facilitates the client in the development of an awareness of self, taking into account, the skills, talent, interests, potentials and realistic goals.

• Employment Placement includes a process of engaging with clients to assess personal employment preferences and then matching Job profile with Personal Profile.

Career and Vocational G&C involves working with the client in the following areas:

• Career Information

• Vocational Education& Training Programs

• CV Designing

• Opportunities for Higher Education

• Job Search Skills

• Employment Opportunity awareness

• Aptitude Testing

• Coping with Unemployment

• Interest testing

• Planning and decision making

Career and Vocational G&C is a continuous process and not just one session.

• It includes assisting clients

  • to examine their aims and aspirations

  • to broaden their options

  • make choices and develop realistic career path.

Moreover, timely Guidance and Counseling saves time which could be wasted in trial and error while discovering the right Vocation for oneself.

• It ensures success and saves failures and the resultant Stress following it.

In Summary, during Vocational G&C programs we assist in:

• Career planning

• Knowing one’s Ability

• Imparting occupational information

• Training for Interviews

• Adjustment to the World of Work

Personal Guidance & Counseling

Individual Counseling/ Group Counseling

It is an interactive process between the Counsellor and the client, in a one to one setting or in the presence of the guardians, friends or the persons concerned for the client, with the purpose of assisting the client and facilitating him/her with the following issues:

• Social issues

• Cultural issues

• Economic issues

• Emotional issues

• Decision making

• Coping with Transitions

• Relationship and developmental Issues

• Coping with Crisis

It aims in facilitating self awareness and self esteem in the clients by making them understand personal emotions, abilities, interests and special aptitudes

• Acquire information about education and career opportunities

• Make and carry out appropriate life choices and plans and achieve satisfactory adjustments in life.

Individual Counseling

• One to one sessions are held to discuss personal issues.

• A Counselor, during the counseling sessions.

• guides the individual

• motivates him

• provides required information to him

• gives solutions to the querries

• creates awareness and insight in the individual about the topic in discussion.
   

Group Counseling

• It is a broad term covering all types of counseling for more than one person. Common Topics of interest concerning all members of the group are discussed in the presence of a Counselor.

• Interaction between the group members, support methods or challenging targets describe the inter group relationships.

• A Counselor assists

• in locating the common goals,

• removing interpersonal conflicts,

• developing a support system in the group so that there is Group Conformity.

• A Counselor might address a group of people on a topic of Common Interest as career, relationship, emotions etc.

• Individual and Group Counseling sessions can be useful in assisting clients with

• Decision making,

• Problem Solving,

• Self Appraisal and

• Development of Coping Strategies.

Social Guidance& Counseling

Social Guidance Programs are based on three basic needs which are vital for social and emotional well being of an individual in society. They are;
• need for interpersonal relationship
• need for group status
• need for social life

Stress, frustration, depression, deviance could be the resultant if these needs remain unfulfilled.

Need for Interpersonal Relationship

The development program aims at guiding and counseling towards maintaining harmonious interpersonal relationship by imbibing the feeling of social acceptance and filling communication gap in the relationship.


Need for Group Status

Acceptance in a prestigious Group increases an individual’s self esteem as it conveys Social Status but to be constantly rejected or inability to join a desired group imparts a ‘left out’ feeling’ which can demoralize an individual and thus create Mental health hazards.
Development Program assist in coming to terms with the situation or helping in making one a part of the desired Group.


Need for social life

In order to enable a good social life for the individuals in society, an Organized Social Guidance Program aims at;

• providing assistance for Social Adjustments

• help to develop proper attitude towards life and society

• assists in acquiring desirable set of values and developing

• positive life Philosophy

• assist in understanding their rights and obligations to the society
  
  Social Guidance Programs are planned to provide INDIVIDUAL OR Group Counseling to;

• STUDENTS

• ADOLOSCENCTS

• WOMEN

• CORPORATES

• OTHER STRUCTURED GROUPS