Students need a new approach to plan their college, career, and life dreams
- career choices
- July 28, 2025
Career design is life design by self-discovery
Students and their families and loved ones need a new approach that helps them plan and find colleges and see careers in a much broader lens—something beyond the students’ personality and aptitude assessment reports.
Getting into the college for higher education was always an important milestone in students’ career, anywhere in the world. Regardless of the education policy, the education system, and the employability trends in different college-centric career paths in the country, college selection discussions were always important in the families.
Selecting a college for the career path options is complicated for many students and their families, particularly when their discussions are either driven by the society and community, or are influenced by social media, or by the employability trends.
Their concerns are genuine—the uncertainty in jobs, the stakes in the investment because of the competition, the changing landscape of required skills at work, and of course the ROI of investment in the college degree.
Even though many institutes are evolving to bring new career planning practices in their programs, the fundamental model to build life-design centric employability is not changing much. If you see a few stories on social media or in students’ communities, a lot of kids want to change the college for different reasons.
Steering changes the career selection or college selection game because we bring the life-design experience by a self-discovery perspective from day one.
Modern students and their families need much more than a college-selection guide. They need a system that serves as a life-design anchor, with regular checkpoints, something that understands the family dynamics and how a rewarding career comes back to those family dynamics, for a meaningful life.Â
Steering builds the analysis around:
- What are the family dynamics, the parents, or sometimes even the extended family and loved ones and other influences on the student
- What the the concerns, and thinking frameworks of different family members, and where their thoughts converge
- How they connect the thoughts of students’ apprehensions, doubts, and their vision and life dreams
- What are their decision models, how do they counter-question, and then respect those boundaries? How do they build bridges?
- Where do they find the evidence, the possible ROI in the career selection? What kind of references they see to support their decisions
- What enables their discussions? What makes them decide, for a systematic and a positive family dynamics experience?
- What builds their trust and their confidence about a career path
- Do they have numbers or reports to feel confident about?
Steering is designed on an intelligent and self-learning domain model, with a strong sense of theme clustering and theme pipeline, to design thought-maps and the quadrants for the families.Â
We share references, stories, numbers, and connect you with experts in the same career path—quite a holistic journey for the student and the family.
Steering’s goal is to help the students explore their deeper and inner aspirations and reverse the journey from their life dreams and wishlist to what they should study, and for what kind of rewards—by building a positive family-centric decision support system.
We have a free trial for you.
Our analysis structure in the free plan helps you in thinking deeply about your life-dreams, aspirations, wishes, and in connecting the dots for what you want to do, what skills you should learn, how to apply those skills in real life work, and what brings joy in your life when you grow up.
Steering is open for private access at present. You can take the free trial to get started.