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 months or after one year. Steering takes the guess work out of the family discussions and prepare them for an objective analysis of a rewarding career opportunity for their kid. We see so …
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How Steering helps the parents in their career choices for their kid—a real example
- career choices
- July 20, 2025
Real story Law practitioners’ son wants to study software This is a real conversation we had with a family. The parents are legal practitioners and the have a preference for their son to study law whereas the kid wants to learn software. Rajesh Aggarwal is a senior advocate and his partner Priya Aggarwal is a corporate lawyer in Chandigarh. Their …
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How Steering is about family first—for students’ careers, college, subjects, and aspirations
- career choices
- July 20, 2025
The family Students’ career choices and the family When students get into a college and the whole family supports it, the family dynamics are different. When they study something against the parents’ wishes, it impacts everyone at home. When a student grows from grade six to seven, the family is also growing. The child is merely progressing for the grades …
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A few under-discussed career options for students in India
- career choices
- July 17, 2025
Naming? Students might see light in these career options There are no mainstream careers or preferred careers—a student’s choice for studying commerce or soil or music or fish have the same merit, and their dreams are equally important for the world. In some sections or communities or even in the families or extended families, the students’ career choices and their …
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How students select their colleges—a study by Pravin Chavan, Masuma Mehta
- career choices
- July 14, 2025
Colleges How students make college selection decisions This post shares some thoughts from a study—Uncovering Students’ Higher Education Institutions Selection: An Investigation Using Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis. The paper was published by Pravin Chavan, Global Business School and Research Centre, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, and Masuma Mehta, School of Management, Avantika University, Ujjain (link to the study). Knowing …
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The cost of studying wrong subjects in a wrong college
Before students and their families or loved ones feel the pressure of taking the right subjects in the right college, they should understand the cost of getting into a wrong college for the wrong reasons.
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Parents and loved ones’ concerns—Which college and for what kind of career
- career choices
- June 22, 2025
Parents, guardians, and loved ones have concerns when their kid is about to finish their school and they are planning their college and career decisions
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