Career Jalakam to be launched today

Thiruvananthapuram: The employment service department has come up with ‘Career Jalakam’ career cards to inform students about various higher studies and career opportunities available to them. The career cards will be distributed to SSLC and Plus Two students in government schools and degrees students in colleges.
The cards prepared by vocational guidance unit under National Employment Service department in association with Kerala Academy for Skills Excellence are pamphlets consisting of information related to higher studies options for students in science, commerce and humanities branches.
Minister for labour T P Ramakrishnan will release these career cards at a function to be held at Government College for Women, Vazhuthacaud, at 2pm on Friday. These cards will be updated on regular intervals.
“Students are ignorant about various higher studies options, scholarships provided by institutes and so on. The aim of the initiative is to help them to select a right career. Our vocational guidance units conducting sessions on higher studies in schools will distribute the pamphlets to the students attending the sessions,” said M A George Francis, joint director of employment.
In addition to career cards, the department will distribute career directories, which will be a comprehensive document of Career Jalakam, with details on career opportunities, institutes offering scholarships and training programmes for students. These will be distributed through school libraries.
Also, the PSC facilitation centre to be started in employment exchange units in all districts will be inaugurated at the function. The facilitation centre in the city will function at the Modern Career Centre in Student Centre at PMG.
It is proposed to upgrade the vocational guidance units in these centres in the next phase to enable one-time registration, certificate uploading, online mock test and classes for competitive examinations. Employment service department is working on a website as a digital version of career cards.