Category: Bokaro

A typical counselling process consists of three steps:

1. The student is given some psychometric and career tests
2. The counsellor interviews the student (and parents) to clarify the results and get more details.
3. A report is provided to the student recommending specific college and course options.

At Seed Spring, we follow a different process:

1. The counsellor interviews the student (and parents) to understand their strengths, passions, excellence, interests, and limitations.
2. Based on the interview, one or more tests may be administered (and sometimes none).
3. The report includes recommendations of skills and experiences to gain to prepare for the college studies, and a list of colleges and courses that are likely to align with one or more characteristics of the student.
4. The student is trained on a decision-making process if they require it and asked to create a short list of courses and colleges, and explain their rationale. The counsellor provides support to the students (and their parents) to make this decision.
5. Once the decision is made (which may include 2-3 colleges and 2-3 courses), the counsellor guides them on the next steps on skills and experiences to be gained.

The typical counsellor approach is also problematic:

1. When specific recommendations are provided and accepted by the student, the student does not feel responsible for their decision. A course or college selection is an important decision with far-reaching consequences; the student must own it.
2. In many cases, counsellors have financial arrangements with the colleges being recommended. In such cases, it becomes very hard to understand if such an arrangement has biased the recommendation.

At Seed Spring, we enable you to be the decision-maker. We help you build a strong decision-making process, guide you during the process, and provide information for you to evaluate the consequences of your decision, but the final decision is yours.

We also ensure we are 100% aligned with your goals and interests. We do not have any financial arrangement with any institutes we recommend for your studies. We have collected information about their quality through our independent research and investigation, and we believe they are good for you.

When we recommend skills and experiences to be gained in preparation for college, we curate these from locally available opportunities and do not engage in any financial arrangement with them. When we recommend them to you, we believe they will be good for you.