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The short answer
Career guidance is information and structure that helps you make decisions about study and work. It differs by audience: a Class 9 student needs foundations, a Class 12 student needs routes and exams, a graduate needs a decision framework, and a professional needs a staged plan. Use the pages below to find your audience, then act on one next step at a time.
Admission rules change; confirm with the official notice.
Guidance, counselling and a roadmap
The words overlap. Guidance usually means information and direction, counselling means a conversation about you, and a roadmap is a written plan. You may need one, two or all three. At a decision point, a roadmap can organise the choices, counselling can resolve doubts, and guidance can supply the facts.
These pages focus on guidance: what to do, in what order, with which sources, for each audience. They are written to be practical and to avoid promises. For the conversation side, see the career counselling section.
Wherever rules and dates appear, they come from official sources, and the pages tell you where to confirm them.
How to choose where to begin
If you are in school, begin with the page for your class, since the questions are specific to the year. If you are a parent, begin with the parents page and then read the page for your child's class. If you are in college or working, begin with the page for your situation and use the career switchers page if you are planning a change.
Each page ends with related guides and official sources, so you can go deeper where you need to. Take the pages as a starting point and decide with your own facts.
