An Exclusive Interview The Anand Wadadekar

Blog » Exclusive Interviews » Information is the Building block of Career Counselling â€" Anand Wadadekar Information is the Building block of Career Counselling â€" Anand Wadadekar by Amarjeet Sharma | Mar 7, 2016 | Exclusive Interviews “Personally, right now I am very happy that what all that I had built for all those years in terms of information, expertise helped me to take a choice to get into Career Counselling full time. I actually have developed a concept called “Family Career Counsellor” identical to Family Doctor and it has been well obtained by mother and father and college students.” â€" Dr. Anand Wadadekar Dr. Anand Wadadekaris the Founder and CEO of Discovering Careers India. He has developed an idea called “Family Career Counsellor” which is being acquired very nicely by dad and mom and college students alike. He speaks about his career and profession counselling in an interview with Amarjeet. Amarjeet Sharma (AS): Please temporary us about your Education al background. Dr. Anand Wadadekar (Anand): I mainly come from a Commerce / Finance background. I am a Commerce graduate, Economics Masters, post graduate in Finance & Banking from Symbiosis B-School Pune. I did my Ph.D. in Education Economics from University of Bundelkhand the place my thesis was on greater training in India close to employability and its influence on labour market consequence. I additionally accomplished Diploma in Information Technology from CDAC, Govt. of India. I also received licensed as Mutual Fund Advisor by AMFI. I even have done Certificate course in Intellectual Property Laws provided by WIPO, Geneva. Recently I efficiently accomplished Course in Entrepreneurship from University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through edX platform. AS: What has your time as a Career Counsellor meant to you personally and why? Anand: It means a lot to me. I remember that after passing the XII grade, I began creating a habit to collect information primarily o f corporate law, economics, and so on. That time I was planning on doing Company Secretaryship course. I began reading so much from newspapers, magazines (web access was pricey and never easily obtainable that point). I used to write down Letters to the Editor to TOI, ET, and so forth. on matters of economics, enterprise, law, and so on. and they used to get revealed. Slowly I also used to gather details about programs. Unfortunately I was never capable of get a counsellor to help me determine my career. As I began studying and gathering data, my faculty and locality associates used to come back to me for asking details about programs, institutes, scope, etc. By the time I reached the last year of my graduation, I was identified within the faculty as a supply of dependable data and slowly folks began trusting me and my data. I had never thought that for Career Counselling crucial ingredient is of ‘information’. After I graduated, I build my very own blog and used to submit detai ls about programs, and so forth. By this time, I began writing articles in newspapers, on-line newsletters, and so on. on various topics. This helped me build my picture additionally as a topic professional. I used to then information college students online by way of e mail. People from all over India began approaching for steerage via Orkut, Facebook, and so forth. This all began from the year 2005. Personally, at present I am very happy that what all that I had built for all these years in terms of info, experience helped me to take a call to get into Career Counselling full time. I actually have developed an idea known as “Family Career Counsellor” just like Family Doctor and it has been properly acquired by parents and college students. Therefore, as a Career Counsellor it means the world to me and it also allows me to be among the scholar community, parent community and hold myself recent and up to date. AS: How did you get into Career Counselling? What fascinated you into Career Counselling? Anand: Honestly, moving into profession counselling was a gradual course of for me. As stated above, the behavior of collecting data, remembering it and sharing it made me love profession counselling. This love elevated when I saw that the aspirants I guided actually achieved their success, which is a proof that they trusted, believed and executed my opinion. Formally folks began recognizing me as a Career Advisor from 2005. Till the time turned a publish graduate, started working in corporate, I used to see many aspirants mis-guided, mis-informed and in the end take a mistaken career decision. Here, I used to speak to them and give them ways, options to get their career on monitor. Seeing, that aspirants required such guidance, doing career counselling as a profession fascinated me lots. The two issues which I really feel that pursuits me for doing career counselling is one, there is huge ignorance among aspirants about various career options and second, there are only a few real unbiased career counselors within the society which can give unbiased opinions. This has resulted into faculties and schools inviting me for Career guidance talk yearly throughout Maharashtra. AS: Which tools do you employ for guiding careers? Anand: When I began giving steering, information and counselling to aspirants, I was solely aware about IQ / Aptitude tests. Those have been paper based that time. There was a false impression that IQ / Aptitude Test is the only check which if done can be a tool to know about a suitable profession option. But as I construct my experience, my very own examine and interacting with dad and mom & college students, I realised that IQ / Aptitude just isn't the one standards for selection of a career possibility. Then I came to find out about Psychometric Tests which is a combination of IQ and EQ. Now I use CareerGuide’s Psychometric Tests as a starter to my counselling session with aspirants. Category wise psychometric tests by CareerGuide.com are the best and reliable. Aspirants inform me that they never imagined that a psychometric test can be so interesting and rather more inclusive than normal IQ / Aptitude take a look at. Have a question concerning your career ? AS: Why do you think it’s important for college kids and oldsters to bear Career Counselling collectively? Anand: It’s very important positively, the reason being that in India, we've various cultural traditions. Likewise many families follow career traditions as nicely and really religiously. This provides rise to parental pressure on the kid to choose a particular, conventional profession possibility, disregarding some other possibility even when more suitable to the child or a lot in demand in the business. Unfortunately I actually have seen that parents just send their baby for counselling only for the sake of it. May be this is because of their apprehension that they know every thing and needn't listen to the counsellor. My interplay with lots of of oldsters yearly, I even have discovered that parents too are utterly unaware in regards to the new career options, altering dynamics of the industry and they're much extra comfortable in asking their child to pick a typical and c onfirmed career path. I personally in my counselling periods, make a compulsion that folks (each of them) should accompany their baby. I consider that when each â€" aspirant and father or mother â€" turn out to be conscious of the profession options, about the aspirant’s functionality, parents expectation, it could possibly outcome right into a nicely knowledgeable and a strong career determination. This additionally helps in checking out mother or father-baby points, contribute towards building a much more stronger relation between them. I personally attempt to imbibe the connection of ‘friendship’ between aspirants and their dad and mom, which does wonders. AS: What are the highest 3-5 skills you must have to turn into an efficient Career Counsellor? Anand: The prime most talent to turn out to be an efficient Career Counsellor is capacity to gather information about profession choices and ability to relate it to the industry and economy. Other expertise that are necessary ar e communication skills, listening expertise, being unbiased in opinion and being a subject / area professional. Today, being a good career counsellor isn't just about accumulating data and reproducing it, but being an trade experienced person is also essential. I believe that an individual wishing to get into career counselling should have spent a good amount of years working in the industry in a particular domain, which provides him the knowledge about the way trade works which can help him as a value add to his counselling. Today a profession counsellor should also make the aspirants conscious of the ‘employability’ side in order that the aspirants know what it needs to become employable. AS: What is your recommendation for newbies, who are taking a look at building a career in Career Counselling business? Anand: Career Counselling is the necessity of the hour and its significance is now being realised by dad and mom and even by Government of India. My recommendation to the ne wbies looking at building a profession in career counselling is that they need to have ardour for counselling and extreme urge to help college students. Newbies ought to be superb subject / area specialists primarily. I consider that being a generic counsellor is of no use but being a domain specific counsellor is necessary. For being a domain particular counsellor one ought to have related skills and associated business work expertise. They should attempt to get full data and keep away from giving opinions to aspirants on half data. AS: There are many new career options which have come up over the past decade which was not heard of earlier than, how do you stay up to date on the most recent tendencies in Career? Anand: Staying up to date about the education business and the company dynamics is essential to be an effective career counsellor. I personally see to it that I learn so much by way of blogs, magazines, newspapers, television, etc. about numerous profession avenues, courses . I even have subscribed to few good e-newsletters which give details about education. Every profession choice is related to the economic system of the nation, so I see to it that I additionally acquire information about how the financial system is performing and the future. Further I all the time make it some extent to keep interacting with all forms of folks around (by way of online or in particular person) and enhance my data library. AS: Which are the Career Information resources (i.e. newsletters/ blogs/ websites/ apps) you go to regularly? Anand: I am an everyday reader of newspapers like Education Times (TOI), The Economic Times, magazines like Advancedge, web sites like MBAClubIndia, MBAUniverse, CareerIndia, and so on. I am additionally an article contributor to those newspapers, magazines and web sites. AS: Share the names of 3 individuals you respect in terms of Career Counselling? Anand: Honestly I did not have any particular person in front of me after I started career counselling. However I respect Dr. Arun Mudbidri (Former Director of Symbiosis B-School Pune) from whom I learnt so much about abilities, employability and pupil development. Then it is none apart from Ms. Surabhi Dewra whom I see as a torch bearer for the profession counselling industry. AS: Would you like to share few words/suggestions about the work we're doing at CareerGuide? Anand: CareerGuide.com is unquestionably near my heart as a career counsellor community and the work which is being done and planned by it's excellent. As a Career Counsellor, I even have high regards for the entire Team CareerGuide. Have a query relating to your profession ?