Career Shikhar is India’s most innovative online career counselling platform where students are assessed by way of a unique psychometric assessment (especially prepared by a team of experts for Indian context) and then they are recommended with the career choices on the basis of their interest, aptitude and personality. Research has shown that choosing a best-fit career is the first and foremost step towards a successful and satisfactory life. Research has further shown that in India, more than 85% students are not sure of their career path till class 12th and they have to rely on their parents and relatives for career guidance. To fill this gap & to overcome students’ dilemma, Career Shikhar has emerged to be a guiding light for students.

Career Shikhar serves as the one-stop-solution for the entire career planning needs of students. Its services include psychometric assessment of students to identify their inborn hidden talent and their weaknesses, one-on-one personal counselling sessions (telephonic/Skype), long term career guidance program while tracking student’s progress and his inclination, online support to students, access to Career Shikhar’s flagship dashboard which is a research based updated career hub, etc. Career Shikhar offers varieties of products for 9th to 12th class students. Products are named as CSA Basic, CSA Standard and CSA Advanced. (CSA indicates for Career Shikhar Assessment).

Career Shikhar programs are available for all the students of 9th to 12th standard. Students aged between 13 to 19 years can participate in various programs of Career Shikhar. Besides, the parents of these students can also participate to resolve their doubts or queries. Career Shikhar assessments cover the parental orientation part and parental inputs are considered while recommending career options to students.

Career Shikhar counselling programs are very different from typical career counselling. It’s an overall career assessment + career counselling + career guidance program after participating which students’ all worries/queries regarding their career path get resolved with much accurate and customized solutions. By taking part in Career Shikhar assessments, student first finds out his hidden strength, his areas of development and very crucial career related insights. Besides, Career Shikhar’s offers access to its flagship dashboard where the students can get all the latest and updated information on hundreds of career options, entrance exams directory and various scholarships along with alert & notifications facility.

Career Shikhar’s psychometric tools have been developed by a team of psychometricians, psychologists and behavioral scientists. The tools have been prepared in accordance with the Indian culture and concerns after a holistic research. All the assessments of Career Shikhar are duly standardized and tested for validity and reliability.

Career Shikhar’s assessments are very comprehensive and totally based on scientifically established principle of behavioral sciences. Only through accurate application of psychometric analysis, exact calculation of degrees of inherent Aptitudes, Personality Traits and Interests of the child can be made. Career Shikhar’s psychometric tools are full updated and are scientifically tested for their validity and reliability.

Career Shikhar assessments have been prepared after a rigorous research and developed keeping in view the demography of Indian context. CSA (Career Shikhar Assessments) covers all aspects needed to make a sound and informed career choice. Moreover, they are updated from time to time keeping latest career trends and needs of students in view. CSA’s have been standardized on Indian students and affirms to the highest standard of validity and reliability.

Career Shikhar is backed by a team of eminent pscyhometricians, psychologists, academicians and experienced career counselors from the nation across. Our team is constantly striving to improve and update our deliverables to the best of their outcomes. Our mission is to be India’s most effective and credible career counselling platform.

Career Shihar counselling program begins with the registration/signup. After registration, students can subscribe for various programs of Career Shikhar as per their need. Once subscribed, they will get anaccess to the dashboard which is very user friendly and free form technical hassles. Students can complete the assessment at the dashboard where different sections of the assessments have been given separately. Assessment will take around 2 hours in total to complete. However you don’t need to complete it in a single sitting. You can take the assessment in parts as the assessment will autosave from where you will stop. You can further continue from where you last left off.

After the completion of test, you will be sent a comprehensive report covering your interest, aptitude, personality traits, emotional intelligence along with a very effective development plan and interesting career insights. After the generation of report, student will go for a one-on-one career counselling with our expert counselor. The counselor will explain the insights of reports, basis of recommended career options, areas of development and complete career guidance in view of the results of report. Number of counselling sessions will depend upon the program chosen by student. After the generation of report and one-on-one counselling, students are provided with online support facility where they can resolve their queries/confusions by chatting with the counselor or by asking the same at mails. We further support the students till he gets admission in the college of his choice and preference.

Assessment will take around 2 hours in total to complete. However you don’t need to complete it in a single sitting. You can take the assessment in parts as the assessment will autosave from where you will stop. You can further continue from where you last left off.

The time is always right to go for a scientific approach to plan one’s career. 10th class is the ideal time to start exploring the world of careers and to take part in a systematic counseling process. An early approach to career counselling gives you enough time to explore your interest and abilities, and hence enable you to take more informed and accurate career decision.

You are in class 11th means you are now much closure to the very important decision of your life. Even though you have chosen your stream but there are many precious career decisions which one has to take after choosing stream. To take these decisions, CSA’s (Career Shikhar Assessments) are certainly the most effective tools. These will help you to take a career decision that matches with your aptitude and personality combination. Besides, you will also get a deep insight of your hidden strengths and weaknesses. CSA report includes the development plans by virtue of which you can overcome your weaknesses and will get an insight on areas where you need to work.

It’s very good that you have chosen your path but doesn’t it fascinate you to know what your true calling is? What are the seeds of purpose you have within? It is also important that how did you arrive at this decision to pursue engineering, your keen interest induced you to opt this or your relatives have decided this for you? To discover your true calling and to clarify all such doubts CSA’s are certainly the recommended tools for you. Besides, our counselors will guide you that which particular branch of engineering can be most suited to you. For example you lack mechanical aptitude and if you are joining electronics or aeronautical engineering, your academic performance may be hampered. If you’re mechanical aptitude is low and you still want to go for engineering chemical engineering can be the suitable option for you. Such valuable insights you can get through CSA’s even though you have decided which career option to go.

Career Shikhar assessments map your interest, orientation, aptitudes, personality and emotional quotient. All these five elements of behavioral sciences play a major role in anyone’s life especially in his/her work life or career. CSA’s (Career Shikhar assessments) help tremendously in choosing streams, subject combinations, career options and also provide a development plan to improve your overall performance both at academic and personal level. CSA’s are fully based on scientifically established principles of behavioural sciences and are scientifically tested for their “reliability” and “validity”.

No, you do not need any preparation or any practice to take part in these assessments. Actually it is an assessment of your inner elements where you will be asked certain statements on situations which you come across everyday in your life. Besides, your present skills, knowledge and orientation will serve as the basis to appear in the test. No separate preparation is required at all to take part in these statements.

Apart from career assessment and career counselling, Career Shikhar programs provide crucial online support where you can chat with the same counselor who has undertaken your counselling. Besides, you will get an access to the dashboard of Career Shikhar where you will get updated and research based information on various career options, various scholarships and entrance exams directory. You will also get the facility to subscribe the alerts where you will be notified for the important dates of entrance exams, scholarships, etc.

An aptitude assessment is only a one time exercise. You only need to do it once in your lifetime. It’s a onetime investment having high utility and invaluable returns as you don’t have any other way to know who you are and how to explore your inborn talent.

Once you will submit the complete assessment (all of its parts), our team will start analyzing it and will submit you the comprehensive report within 72 hours of the submission of assessment. The report will be generated on dashboard itself from where you can download it. Besides, you will also get the report on the email-id you have mentioned while entering personal details. .

In simple terms, Aptitudes are our inborn abilities and talents which we possess since birth. But most of us are unable to recognize which of the combination of aptitudes we possess. It is to be noted that development of Aptitude has nothing to do with one’s interest, knowledge, education or the culture that one belongs to. But they have to do with heredity. Musical talent and artistic talents are examples of aptitudes. Aptitudes are different than interest, skills or knowledge. Skills and knowledge can be acquired throughout the life but aptitudes stabilize by the age of 14 and don’t get altered further. Aptitudes hugely impact career as every occupation is characterized by a particular combination of aptitude. For example you are an engineer but possess aptitude of an artist, your work might seem unrewarding. You would find your work difficult and unpleasant too, if you don’t have the aptitude for the work you do.

Personality is the aggregate of one’s behavior, emotions and attitude. The way a person response in a normal situation, the way he deals with people, the character a person has, his individuality, his underlying perceptions – all these constitute the personality of an individual. How one’s response, behave and feel has a great impact on one’s entire career. Each person has certain traits of personality which are hidden. It is imperative to ascertain these traits and make an informed career choice in accordance with the personality traits.

Emotions play a very significant role in the life of every person. Emotions are involved in every action, decision or judgment of a person. The inner world of the person is managed and guided by emotions hence it is imperative to manage these emotions rather than being managed by them. Emotional Intelligence (EI) concept has become a very important indicator of a person’s knowledge, skills and abilities in school, workplace and in personal life. CSA assessment covers this crucial part where students are not only made familiar with their EI insights but also provided with development plan to improve their EI.

Interests are the results of what you do, what you learn and what you know. These factors change substantially from year to year as your knowledge and experience grows. But you cannot be interested in something you don’t know or understand. Interests are generally influenced by outside factors.

Skills refers to an ability of a person to do a task in the most effective and efficient manner which can be acquired through knowledge, experience, training or practicing something repeatedly.

Aptitudes on the other hand are different from interest and skills. Unlike interest and skills, aptitudes are the result of inheritance and early development. They are not changeable as interest and not knowledge or practice based like skills. They are inborn.