Why Career Counselling Is No Longer a Luxury for Indian families, It's a NECESSITY
It is 6:30 on a Sunday evening . In the living room, a father is looking through his old college photograph album, smiling at a faded picture of his 1998 campus placements batch. He turns to his daughter, currently studying in the 9th standard, and says with a proud smile: "Beta, in our time, life was simple. You cleared your 10th standard Board Exams, chose Science if you had good marks, did engineering, and your life was set for the next thirty years." The daughter smiles, but her eyes quietly drift back to her laptop screen. She was just reading an article about how artificial intelligence is changing the coding landscape, and how companies are now hiring people called "Ethical AI Consultants" and "Behavioral Data Strategists." She looks at her father, looks at her screen, and feels a quiet wave of panic. She wants to tell him that the world he is remembering does not exist anymore. But she keeps quiet because she doesn't want to worry him....