The Career Counselling department is one of the dynamic and forward thinking departments of the School.
The career counseling cell has an enormous responsibility of sensitizing our budding career women about the whole world of career opportunities available to them by providing them vital information on global competitiveness and hence giving them knowledge on the possible roles in this world of global opportunities and fast paced changes in a globalized world.
College counselling at Mayo College Girls School encompasses career development, course selection, and planning for university throughout the Senior School experience. We bridge the gap of information so that many well qualified, brilliant and hardworking students are able to access the opportunities of higher education in India & Abroad
We help and motivate each and every individual to choose appropriate colleges, Universities and institutions for higher studies in India and abroad.
We continuously provide the update and latest information to students on education and career trends as per the international scenario.
We counsel and guide the students, thus making them realize their academic orientation, finally leading to the individual student selection of subjects of choice.
We track the dateline, of various entrance exams, admissions schedule/ notifications of colleges and Universities of national and international level and disseminate the necessary information to the student community at the earliest.
We guide and monitor student admission procedure like application process for national and international Universities and coordinate between parents and subject teachers for the valued letter of recommendations.
We work towards expanding the horizon of the student community by conducting seminars and workshops on various careers. Eminent persons from varied fields are invited for talks and holding workshops.
The school arranges workshops, college fairs, and visits from universities, with a sole purpose of helping the students choose the right colleges/universities. Global universities are brought at their doorstep i.e. at our own school, which immensely helps in preparing students intensively for their dream college.
Following are some of the various workshops and programmes conducted in our school for students to provide them insights into the trending careers worldwide:
Career counseling workshops conducted by ICS Lucknow( this is an annual feature where the needs and requirements of an individual student is assessed and analyzed, thus helping them to take that big step forward in academics in particular in life in general).
Mr. Shiv Dhewan’s “One Step Up” (organized annually).
Lateral Thinking workshop by Mr. Pradeep Upadhyay which gives us valuable advice about how to tackle life when we are at our lowest and how to turn negativity into positivity.
Tour of various American Universities
Workshops and presentations by prestigious Universities such as Raffles; LaSalle; New York University, Abu Dhabi, New York School of Visual Art, University of British Columbia and St. Andrew’s University to name a few.
These workshops help students to inculcate within them:
Value of the community
Value of perseverance
Value of experience
Value of toil
Value of adversity
Value of aspiration and
Value of success