“the best way to predict future, is to create it.”

• Whom you want to be ? When? And How?

• Have you ever thought what your vocation should be?

• What your plans are which clearly define you???

• No plan means you are accepting anything that comes on your way. Others will decide your fate. You are at the receiving end.

• Are you satisfied with your current vocation?

• Is that what you wanted it to be and wished for? ??

• These are the basic points no one pays attention to...

Today’s Generation Students…….

•Never plan for the future.

•Follow the crowd

•Choose by influence of others.

•Accept the parent’s verdict(decision) by force

•Get tempted by current trends

•Jump into any career

•Lack motivation

•Fail to ‘’discover their lives’’

•Live in a fantasy world

Why Vocational Guidance ?

• Focus is lost.• Effort to increase quantity.• Survival of the fittest.• Less influence by parents, teachers, etc.• Increasing Dropouts .• Checking quality in products such as food

and clothing but not education.• Increasing competition• Effort to increase quantity.• A-I-M LESS process

Current trends:

• Students themselves.

• Parents - most of them.

• Teachers - not every body.

• Schools & Colleges – majority of them.

• Society

• Government.

• People who have knowledge.

• People who achieved success but forgot others.

• People who can influence others for good.

Who are responsible for all this:

• We have been created unique. (Eg. Fingerprint).

• We are born only once.

• We spend almost 40 years on our work.

• A total over 80,000 hours , we work.

• Now ask yourself how you will spend these 80,000 hours before you die??????

Why select a career:

For this people need vocational guidance….

“Vocational guidance is a process of helping the person to develop and accept an integrated adequate picture of himself and his role in the world of work to test this concept against reality and to convert it into reality with satisfaction to himself and benefit of society.”

(DONALD SUPER)

Introduction:

• A Vocation is a career or calling and the word is derived from the Latin ‘vocare’ which means' to call’.

• Career guidance or advise means more specific interventions designed to help young people use their skills to further their interest in particular careers.

• Ginsberg speaks of vocational guidance is a process of helping an individual to understand and adjust to society.

• Vocational counseling is a process of helping individual to ascertain ,accept, understand and apply relevant facts about the occupational world which are ascertained through incidental and planned exploratory activities.

Vocational guidance is the process of helping an individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, enter it, and progress in it.

Two types:

With respect to individual

With respect to vocations

Types of Vocational Guidance:

• Stress related work issues

• Transitional work issues

• Loss of job

• Any/ All of above

Reasons for Vocational Counselling:

Five steps are there:

•Rapport and Relationship

•Clients Assessment

•Exploring options

•Narrowing options

•Taking action/ Implementing goal

Steps/phases of Vocational Guidance:

• Psychological climate resulting from the interpersonal contact of client and counselor.

• Living and evolving condition.

• Relationship includes respect, trust, and relative psychological comfort.

• Impacted by: Counselor’s personal and professional qualifications.

• Client’s:• interpersonal history,• anxiety state,• interrelation skills, and• previous ability to share

Rapport and Relationship

Client’s Assessment• Client’s:

• Interests• Aptitude• Personality• Values • Skills

Exploring Options:

• Make a list of clients interests and aptitudes.

• Gather information from different resources.

• Make for and against list of every item.

Narrowing Options

• Finalizing 2 or 3 options to reach in depth

• Elaborating options from beginning to end.

• Finally selecting only one option that fully satisfy client’s life.

• At this stage, the client’s goal is crystal clear.

• The client start walking toward its goal by making a route chart.

• After achieving its short term goals the client is now on his goal.

Implementing Goals:

1 Get help with the job search process.

2 Mock Interviews.

3 To make the best of your current position

4 Develop the skills necessary for career success

5. Clarify goals

How counsellors work for development of individual:

Eunuch:

The term third gender and third sex describe individuals who are categorized (by their will or by social consensus) as neither man nor women, as well as the social category present in those societies who recognize three or more genders. In Pakistan, individuals who are born with sexual deformity are known as eunuch (hijras or khwajasarras).

What is Third Gender:

How they earn their livelihood in Pakistan:

The group earn livelihood by performing/dancing/singing in family functions like birthdays, marriages or child births.

Most of the people do not consider them eunuch by birth. They believe that they are either men behaving like women ( cross dressers) or they are homosexual. No doubt, it is true. The number of those born with sexual deformity in eunuch community is as low as 1%( Zafar, 2004). Both cross dressers and homosexuals are cursed down in Islam. As it is difficult to isolate a genuine eunuch from converted one, people use to curse and look down upon whole eunuch community. More over sex work and certain behavioral such as sundering jokes, using disgusting language and throwing vulgar gesticulations, persuade people harboring negative attitude towards them.

How are they socially treated in Pakistan:

Rights of eunuch in Pakistan are confined to

vote/contest In elections. Otherwise they are victims

of extreme social ostracism. They are denied in

families. They are neither acceptable at work places

nor they are allotted any quota in employment. They

are also deprived of opportunities to take education

because of peoples attitude towards them. And so

they are also denied health &

psychological/psychotherapeutic assistance.

Beside this, educated English speaking class of

eunuch is enlarging in Pakistan. They do not face

this treatment because of their social and

economic status in society. They become fashion

designers, interior decorators, hair stylist , make

up artists, actors, event organizers and even

politicians.

In June 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered a census of eunuch, which came out between 80,000 and 300,00 in Pakistan. In December 2009, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the chief justice of Pakistan, ordered that the national database and Registration authority (NADRA) issues national identity cards to members of community showing their “distinct” gender. “ it’s the first time in the 62 year history of Pakistan that such steps are being taken for our welfare”, Almas Bobby, a eunuch association’s president, said to Reuters. “it’s a major step towards giving us respect and identity in society. We are slowly getting respect in society. Now people recognize that we are also human beings.

Bearing in mind that having its own gender label will not solve all of the eunuch community's problems, the Supreme Court made further recommendations, the most revolutionary being in the professional field. Per official orders, if qualified, eunuch were now to be given preference for civil service jobs for affirmative-action reasons.

According to the ruling, a transgender applicant with a 10th-grade education was now deemed to have the same qualifications for government work as a non-transgender person with a bachelor's degree.

But that wasn't all. In 2010, eunuch were also appointed as tax collectors to utilize their "special" persuasion skills.

Reasons for becoming eunuch or joining eunuch vary, it is believed that eunuch earn livelihood relatively easily. Desperate and unemployed youth is attracted to eunuch community to earn this easy money. Secondly, ignorance towards psychological healing of problems in most of the low class families led their children to take shelter in so called safe heaven of eunuch community. Selling of children to eunuch community due to poverty is yet another important reason of becoming eunuch.

Reasons of behaving like third gender:

Reasons are obvious; solutions are obvious too.

First of all, parents should be very careful about the children showing deviant behavior. If a boy behaves in a girlish manner, he should not be encouraged. Rather, should be taken to psychiatrist/ psychologist immediately for necessary treatment.

Secondly, Parents should have an active eye on the activities of their children reaching the age of adolescence. They should check the company their child keep. Government should more actively approach to homosexuals and develop public awareness program to handle the issue.

At the end, there should be complete records of born eunuch on district level. So that these eunuch can either be provided financial help publically to restrain them from falling in socially unacceptable activities or assigned them qouta in employment.

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As they grow they must get awareness about themselves. Along with that basic education should be make compulsory for them so that those among them who are interested in further education should be guided and provided the opportunities.

After education opportunities must be provided to like normal person to select what vocation/career they are interested in by visiting vocational counsellors who definitely will make them realize of what they are and what amazing changes they can bring in the society and for the welfare of society as they are special for almighty Allah, they have positive qualities of males and females both.

They are equal to normal persons, they are humans like us, its not their fault that they are born like this so they should be treated normally and gently.

• Banking

• Teaching

• Social worker (NGO’s)

• Farming

• Hotels and Restaurants

• Property dealing

• Marketing

• Stitching and stitching schools

• Parlors

• Business

• Tourist guide

Vocations available in Hazara:

• Clinical Psychologist

• Community Psychologist

• Social Psychologist

• Developmental Psychologist

• Educational Psychologist

• Forensic Psychologist

• Organizational Psychologist

Can join Army, Navy and Air force

Vocations for Psychology Students:

Latest Vocations available in the fields of:

•Sciences

•Arts

•Management

•Engineering

•Social science

Latest vocations available in Pakistan

• Oceanography

• Meteorology

• Microbiology

• Statistics

• Biology ( Botany, Zoology)

• Mathematics

• Geography

• Chemistry (organic/inorganic)

• Geologists

• Astrologist

• Anthropologist

• Biotechnology

• Bioinformatics

• Defense services

• Genetics

• Computers and Information technology

• Physics

Vocations/Careers in Sciences

• Forensic science

• Wildlife

• Public health

• Public relations

• Home sciences

• Home economics

• Nutritionist

• Dermatologist

• Dieticians

• Food technology

• Dairy and poultry farming

• Fishery

• Forestry

• Environmental science

• Earth sciences

Vocations/Careers in sciences(cont..)

• Analytical engineering• Chemical engineering

• Mechanical engineering

• Aviation

• Merchant navy

• Mining

• Petroleum

• Railway technicians

• Atomic engineers

• Electronic engineering

• Software engineering

• Civil engineering

Vocations/Careers in Engineering:

• Human Resource Management

• Personnel Management

• Events Management

• Export and Import Management

• Health and Hospital Management

• Professional Management

• Technology Management

• Hotel Management

• Industrial Management

• Chartered Accountant

• Cost and Management Accountants

• Finance Management and Analysts

• Stock Brokers and Investment Analysts

• Banking

• Business Administration

• Finance planners/ Management

• Insurance Auctorial

• Company Secretaries

Vocations/Careers in Management:

• Caterers

• Wedding planners

• Chefs

• Make up Artists

• Fitness experts

• Tourist guides

• Interior designers

• Ceramics

• Textiles

• Accessories designers:o Washrooms accessorieso Home accessories etc

• Fashion designing:o Dress o Shoes o handbagso Jewelry• Mass communication and

journalism• Foreign language courses• Artists:o Painterso Writerso Scholarso Actorso Photographers

Vocations/Careers in Arts :

•     Economics

•     English

•     Geography and Rural Development

•     History and Political Studies

•     Modern Languages

•     Religious Studies

•     Sociology and Social Work

Vocation related to social science

Some main aims of functions of vocational guidance at secondary school stage are as follows: -

1. Helping pupils to know themselves

2. Helping pupils to make a right choice

3. Helping pupils to prepare themselves for entry into the careers of their choice:

4. Helping pupils to get suitable jobs in their chosen field:

5. Helping pupils according to their vocational assets and liabilities:

6. Helping pupils to be familiar with vocational implications of different subjects to be studied in the secondary school.

7. Helping Pupils to be familiar with occupations and their requirements:

Functions of vocational guidance at Secondary School Stage:

“failure doesn’t mean

you are a failure it

just means you

haven’t succeeded

yet.”

Thank you for your cooperation and for being good listeners,, good luck for future, may you all get what you wished for.. Stay blessed!!