Students, after their successful fulfilment of admission eligibility requirements, will encounter a crucial and important problem in identifying / selecting right institution where they are to get admitted to pursue their choosen course. One requires adequate knowledge and understanding of one’s own self in order to select right institution. This is the first step in career planning.

SELECTING THE RIGHT INSTITUTION:
The Institute, where the student is studying, plays a crucial role. Therefore, selecting the right institution is very important. Parents, as guides, interested in shaping the future of their wards should analyze and counsel the students in the right manner. The following factors will be helpful to the student in choosing the right college.

1.Institution’s reputation through its alumnai,its results and achievements.

2.Accredited, or in the process of ccreditation.

3.Personal Visit: Look at the following
a. Infrastructure facilities like buildings,its ambience.
b. Laboratories, Library
c. Amenities like Hostels, Play grounds, Canteen
d. Transport facilities

4.Faculty:
a. Total Strength
b. Number of Ph.Ds
c. Number of Post Graduations; Scholars
d. Visiting Faculty and their reputation.

5.Placements: Campus Placement details.
a. Companies that visited the Campus
b. Off Campus details
c. JKC facility (Jawahar Knowledge Centre)
d. Branch-wise analysis of previous years

6.Support Academic Programmes
a. Student development programmes
b. Student Chapters in professional associations like IEEE, IETE, ISTE, CSI, ISOI etc.
c. Coaching Programmes facility for further education.
d. Training Programmes for value added courses.
e. Institution – Industry interaction.
f. Educational tours.
g. Encouraging students for participating in research programmes / paper presentations at National and International level.

7.PG Programmes offered i.e. M.Tech, MCA, MBA, M.Sc. etc.

8.Management (Sponsored Society) profile.

CHOOSING A COURSE
The present day student is at a cross road with multiple options available with various Career
Opportunities and hence is in a state of confusion in choosing right path to build his / her future. He / she is both at an advantageous as well as a disadvantageous position, as there are many  pportunities where the earlier generations did not have, at the same time finds innumerable courses before him / her with varied career prospects and is finding difficult in making the right choice. Efforts should be based on analysis, exploration, peer’s advise and expert’s suggestions. A Candidate should choose the right course befitting his / her intellectual calibre, matching with his / her aptitude and attitude. He / she has an advantage of seeking counselling to mould / develop the right attitude
and to develop traits required for each of the course.

Careful Planning, realised implementation can lead the present students to reach the ultimate
career goal of life through a meaningful right process / path selection to; decide, design and
develop oneself.

HOW TO CHOOSE A COURSE
Career Planning is the first stage of career management process which requires an adequate understanding of oneself in terms of life goal, desires, ambitions, challenges and opportunities available based on the potential of an individual, with the assumption that individuals are using only 10% of their brain power for their development and the remaining 90% potential power is left unutilised but is available for improving oneself. Efforts are therefore, required to bring out the best of the best through a well worked out road map of career management.

Choosing / Selecting a course is the prime step in this direction.
The following points are to be considered while choosing the course.
1. Academic Potential
2. Aptitude
3. Intellectual capacity
4. Interest
5. Values
6. Aspirations
7. Emerging opportunities
8. Family background and Resources