Aim

• Educating and Facilitating career guidance for all students to focus on student development activities through Seminars and Workshops.
• Counselling the needy students to improve employability and address personality development issues.
• Extending the Career Guidance Activities to the needy student groups in Schools and Colleges, outside the Tamil University system.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Career Guidance and Counselling Cell were established at Kanchi Shri Krishna College of Arts and Science to help and nurture the students with respect to career and personal development needs.

As indicated by the UGC guidelines, the Career and Counselling cell helps the students with appropriate guidance to establish linkages with the world of work and locate career opportunities vis-à-vis the realities and job profiles in the context of highly competitive emerging occupational patterns. The gaps in the perception about the market demands and individual expectations could be bridged through psychological support and confidence-building measures. Nowadays vocational guidance and campus-based interviews have become common practice. These could be taken care of through the active liaison of the Career and Counselling Cell with the recruiting agencies and HR personnel of reputed firms. The active participation of institutional experts from various institutions gives greater on-site experience in the search of suitable candidates. In this exercise, the help of the alumni of the University, are also sought. The cell undertakes training programmes to acquaint the students with the high demand market areas.

Objectives

Along with the academic and administrative processes of the University, the Career and Counselling Cell is managed by well-informed and interested teachers. It supports the students in the development of soft skills and communication ability to challenge the rigours of competitive tests and exams. As an agency supporting healthy inter and intrapersonal relations, it inculcates social values and the ability to think independently for carrying out social responsibilities. There is a team of teachers with different subjects and interests and thereby help to translate this vision and carry out its healthy functions as an institutional imperative. The guidance and counselling cell in the University is a resource centre of information, guidance and counselling with free accessibility and internet-based global connectivity and exchange of information on professional placements.

Functions of Placement Cell & Career Guidance and Counselling Cell

• • To gather information on job avenues and placements in different institutions and concerns related to the courses that the University offers.
  • To analyze information in the local, regional and national contexts. To explore the relevance and utility of information for the students in their placements and on job training.
  • To organize seminars and guidance workshops for informing students about the emerging professional trends and events, job profiles, leadership roles, entrepreneurship, market needs and risks and implementation of national socio-economic policies and to impart training in soft skills.
  • To promote discipline, healthy outlook and positive attitudes towards national integration and removal of narrow provincial preferences and prejudices.

The Career Guidance and Counselling Cell are constituted to provide to the student community all possible assistance in choosing the appropriate avenues. To enable the students to realize their primary ambition, it has become imperative to counsel and encourage them to set definite goals. The cell provides guidance and training by briefing about various avenues during the time of admission.

• • Organizing talks and seminars regarding different job oriented and vocational courses.
  • Inviting career counsellors to inform students about job prospects of different subjects, Conducting aptitude tests, mock interviews and group discussions.
  • Arranging personal development programmes.
  • Encouraging the students to participate UPSC and other comprehensive TNPSC Examinations.
  • Organizing career talks and seminars with the help of experts.
  • Updating the students with latest information on Industry and Economic Trends..

Convenor

• Dr.K.Venkatesan. Principal

Placement Coordinator

• Dr.P.Punniyakotti Asst Prof and Head/Bio Chemistry