Career Counselling: Need of the hour in Indian skill shortage crisis

The post-pandemic world is slowly trying to resume the flow from where it stopped. Ironically, in our country where unemployment is high, studies have shown that India will face a labor shortage in the years to come after the lockdown. Not only this, the International Labor Organization has also said that India will face a skills shortage of 29 million by 2030, which has the potential to have a huge impact on our economy. Now is the time to tap that bottomless well of untapped potential for the country with the world's youngest population. And for that, we look for career counselling.

Global Career counselling is a process of expertly informed, intelligent and educational guidance that helps students to know and understand themselves and also gives them the necessary options to make educational, career, and life decisions. The demand for career counselors has grown rapidly in recent years as parents and students realize the need to make informed decisions about their futures.

During school, a student steps into the planet with a narrow perspective, becoming familiar with some of the myriad labor fields. Then they are given options that they either don't think much about or don't think about. This may be where career counseling leads the way. As a pastor who has never been a mentor of any kind, we have not provided the guidance, a beacon, a guide that our younger generation so desperately needs.