Online career counselling service launched by LearningHour.com

Career Counselling is a growing need among school students to help them evaluate the plethora of career options available in the world today, and find the best one suited to their aspirations and competencies.

However, experienced and trained counsellors are hard to come by, and this was the thinking behind launching this innovative service, one of its kinds in the world.

The career counselling service will consist of a series of tests specially designed to evaluate student competencies, aspirations, skill sets, academic leaning etc, and this will then be analyzed by Career Smart counsellors, who are trained to map these to both traditional and emerging careers.

Every individual student will get a personalized counselling session with an advisor, over the internet. The advisors will analysis and make recommendations on the best suited career path of the students. This session will be held online, in a Learning Hour virtual classroom, and students will be able to see the counsellor, speak to her and go through the analysis that is uploaded on the screen. The pricing of the service will be very affordable by all standards.

LearningHour.com has been at the forefront of providing online tutoring services and has a large number of students from all the regional countries as well as those from the US, Europe, Australia, etc. LearningHour.com has created a large network of highly-qualified and very well-trained tutors who teach students using the LearningHour.com Pedagogy to ensure their academic improvement.

The entire system is based around the fact that each child is unique; hence, all of LearningHour.com tutoring is one-to-one, with a tutor teaching only one student in one tutoring session.

Career Smart was founded by Usha Albuquerque, who is a gold medalist from Madras University and a teacher by profession. She has been in the field of career guidance for the last nineteen years and pioneered it on television with two widely acclaimed series.

Her books, The Penguin India Career Guide - Vols. 1 & 2, are into their second edition, whilst Puffin has published her latest career guide for younger children. She is a regular columnist on careers and career counselling for national and regional dailies, television and radio channels and online sites. Prior to this Ms. Albuquerque worked as acclaimed national news reader for Doordarshan for many years. Career Smart is the leading career counselling service provider in India.

Chandan Agarwal, Learninghour.com's founder, said: "Students in the GCC are in need of the expertise and assistance of trained and experienced career counsellors in developing their career plans in the normal course. So our thought was that as we anyways provide access to these students to our tutors, who are among the best there are, we can just as well provide them access to trained counsellors.

And among such people, Ms. Albuquerque is undoubtedly the most prominent and renowned. So now students will be able to gain career advice from Ms. Albuquerque though our online tutoring website, www.learninghour.com. In fact, we now plan to approach schools in the GCC to offer them the opportunity to give their students access to our wonderful offering."