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Selecting careers, subjects, and college—the choices and the confusion. Welcome to these stories of students’ career guidance and counselling experiences, by their parents and families, in India. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive emails on these stories.

This is your story—Year 2034, and you have become the person you hoped to be

You in 2034 Students’ dreams in their language A 16 years young Avneet writes a letter to her future self for how in the year 2034, she ...

Engineering only? BioTech vs CSE? NEET by parents’ pressure? Doing wrong degree? Students’ questions for their career

Students questions Real examples of students’ concerns for selecting college and subjects  We see a lot of discussions on Reddit where ...

The 20-50 lakh risk for families who spend on students’ college without data

College Fees Education fees investment risk Think of a family who makes a property buying decision—there is an exhaustive research. They see...

Students career options in architecture in India—the common and the unconventional

Career options Architecture is so vast for career options for the students A college degree in architecture opens endless career options for t...

Students’ career decisions—making sense of their confusion, internal conflicts, uncertainties

Gaps, conflicts, confusion Connecting the students’ thoughts by deep analysis Students have their doubts and confusion while planning th...

A birds family somewhere in the world—because of a student’s career choice in Ornithology

https://steeringhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Steering_letters_stories_birds_Kismet.mp4 Kismet Sinha saw herself among the birds. After us...

Students’ career options in EV—so many paths and career choices for their college

Careers in EV Students’ career options in EV for their college EV is a massive industry and it brings a huge variety of career options f...

Soumil’s story—career choices, the twist, and the rewards

Short story Soumil shares their career odyssey in the year 2034 “BBA with economics, or Psychology, or Astronomy with metaphysics, or ag...

Grade 12 commerce students—a few industry specific career options and choices for you

Commerce students Career options after studying commerce We often see that commerce students talk about alternatives to doing BCom, or the pos...

Reverse-engineering student’ career and college selection—start with aspirations and not with aptitude

Career concerns How does it help their career? Students’ interests or authentic aspirations? “I want to study Python and learn cod...

How should I select career stream, or the college after my school—common questions

Common questions Which subjects or colleges to select after school A lot of parents and the students who are in grade 10 or sometimes in the g...

Students career options who want to study and work in mental health

Career questions Students’ career options in mental health work While speaking to different students, a few of them have a lot of clarit...

Students career guidance beyond psychometric and aptitude tests—How domain-centric theme extraction uncovers the hidden career choices

Students careers Theme extraction for intelligent career design patterns Rather than finding what subjects the students should study and for w...

Colleges and programs to study astronomy in India—a career in space science

Physics College and subjects towards space science in India A reddit discussion on the colleges and programs to study astronomy in India inspi...

For students selecting their college—carpentry career in India

Career concerns How does it help their career? We rarely see Indian parents or families talking about carpentry in the career selection or col...

A student is confused about doing B Sc in agriculture—we help them

Career concerns How does it help their career? A student asked us about the scope of career growth and the career path options after doing BSc...

The hidden ROI of college degree and fees–for Indian parents and families

Unseen ROI Return on investment of college fees and degree in India We see some online tools to help us calculate the ROI of college fees and ...

For Indian parents—how not to talk about college or career with your kids

A few things that parents should not say in their discussion with kids for selecting career path, college, or subjects, after their school....

IT professionals parents’ confusion for daughter’s college—The Steering advantage

Career confusion The choices make it a complicated decision This is a conversation we had with a family where the daughter is in grade 10 and ...

How Steering brings domain intelligence for the students—an EdTech advantage

Our intelligence Domain driven design for the students The Steering playbook—how we bring merit and our domain intelligence into the design ...

How parents or family should prepare school kids for their college

College Be their support systems in all cases The moment parents see that their child is about to plan for the college, the first reaction isďż˝...

Students need a new approach to plan their college, career, and life dreams

Career Design Career design is life design by self-discovery Students and their families and loved ones need a new approach that helps them pl...

The cost of selecting the wrong subjects or wrong college—how Steering addresses it.

Wrong college? Steering saves you from the cost of a wrong college Imagine a kid getting into a college and wants to drop off within a few mon...

How Steering helps the parents in their career choices for their kid—a real example

Real story Law practitioners’ son wants to study software This is a real conversation we had with a family. The parents are legal practi...

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