Counselling is a broad field that aims at helping people and providing them with assistance with their mental health and well-being. There are several types of counselling that deal with different domains of an individual's life, such as Marriage and Family Counselling, Rehabilitation Counselling, Mental Health Counselling, Substance Abuse Counselling and Guidance and Career Counselling.

Career counselling is a domain of counseling that focuses on helping individuals find the right career pathway. In career counselling the individuals receive guidance from professional counselors that provide expert advice on the potentials, Aptitude, motivations, skills and shortcomings with the use of carefully designed assessment tools. These assessment tools are both subjective and objective. After carefully studying the individual's Interests and Aptitude, career counselors guide individuals to set their career goals.

What to expect from career counselling session

Career counsellors work along with their clients in a systematic pattern. They determine the individual's strengths, weaknesses, learning patterns and their interests. Usually, tools like fingerprint testing, Aptitude test, IQ or Interest tests are used to understand the individual. Based on the reports the counsellor then works along with the individual to find a potential career choice. From helping choose the right board, course, college, to choosing the right job, the counsellor guides the individual in mapping the entire pathway to the desired goal.

Often, it has been witnessed that students enroll for a course not knowing exactly what it offers. Their fancy names, peer pressure and popularity pushes the student to opt for the course. Although many parents are aware of the need for guidance and career counselling, there are still a few parents who force their children to opt for conventional and money making careers. Professional courses offered in fields like engineering, psychology, commerce, humanities, science and the rest demand for specific skill sets.

For example

An individual wanting to pursue a career as an engineer should have following skill to be needed for the eligible for the post.

	Aptitude for Mathematics
	Analytical Skills
	Complex Problem Solving Skills
	Science and Computing Knowledge

Thus, the role of an educational counsellor is to assist the student choose the right course that matches with the skillsets of the student to maximise satisfaction and performance.

There are various standardized tools for assessment used by various counselling centres. Depending upon the client needs appropriate Psychometric tests are chosen to evaluate the client's Interest, Aptitude and Personality. Assessment tools like 16PF, Big 5, DBDA, Bhatia, DAT, Wechsler Intelligence Scale and few more are the most used in India. There are various genuine online portals that also offer online counselling and assessment. These online portals may further connect you to expert counselors that provide online career counselling.

There are various standardized tools for assessment used by various counselling centres. Depending upon the client needs appropriate Psychometric tests are chosen to evaluate the client's Interest, Aptitude and Personality. Assessment tools like 16PF, Big 5, DBDA, Bhatia, DAT, Wechsler Intelligence Scale and few more are the most used in India. There are various genuine online portals that also offer online counselling and assessment. These online portals may further connect you to expert counselors that provide online career counselling.

Brainwonders Nigeria, is the only Indian organisation with patented DMIT which helps in transformation via brain mapping.

DMIT (Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence test) is the latest and most trending way of mapping a person's brain. In DMIT the fingerprints of the client are taken using a scanner, then a report is generated that gives complete details of the client's personality, strengths, weaknesses and potential. Research suggests 85% accuracy for this approach. It is considered more effective than any psychometric test. Counselling done on the basis of fingerprint reports gives a clearer picture to the students to choose career options based on their abilities and skill sets. In India, Brainwonders is the largest DMIT and career counselling center with 108 branches all across the country.

Career Guidance is the guidance given to individuals to aid them in understanding their skills, abilities and potential that is important for choosing the right career path.

Career guidance after 10th and career guidance after 12th are very important as these are the crucial turning points in a students' life.

Career guidance and counselling provided by professional career guidance counsellors to students who are confused as to what career choice to make. Brainwonders career counsellors are qualified career guides who help students understand their innate abilities and skills through various career guidance tests such as Aptitude test and Interest test, also help students choose the right career path.

 There are 108+ Career Counselling Centers in India, with 5 Global Centers.

Career counselling in Nigeria is thriving. With parental figures becoming more aware of the importance of career counselling, an increasing number of guardians are explicitly enrolling their children in career counselling. Schools, universities, and other institutions of higher learning are also encouraging students to pursue career counselling. The government also considers making career counselling and guidance mandatory for high school graduates in order to help them map out a legitimate career path and choose similarly. Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, and Pune are the communities with the most career counselling centres.

BIOMETRICS IS USED FOR CAREER COUNSELLING IN Nigeria

DMIT (Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test) is the most recent and amazing method of planning a person's career. DMIT captures the customer's fingerprints with a scanner and generates a report containing all of the finer details of the customer's personality, qualities, shortcomings, and potential. The exactness of this methodology is estimated to be 85 per cent. This section presents the results of the examination. It is expected to outperform any psychometric test. Directing based on individual mark reports would give understudies a more clear picture of career options based on their capacities and ranges of abilities

Our Career Counselors in Nigeria provide excellent career advice

Career guidance in Nigeria refers to advice given to people to help them understand their own abilities, capacities, and potential, which is essential for choosing the right path in life. After-tenth-grade career counselling and after-twelfth-grade career counselling are important because these are significant defining moments in an understudy's life. Licenced career guidance instructors provide career guidance and advice to student workers who are unsure about which profession to pursue.