Career Counselling

FBS students begin early to know, learn and think about careers. The structured pipeline of Career Counselling starts from Preparatory School until they graduate from Secondary School. It begins with exploring the world of work in the early years, understanding aspirations in middle school, and finally, charting a plan for higher education to pursue a career path of interest after Class XII.

“Career Counseling sessions helped me to understand the different career options that are available and how to pursue them. It enlightened me about the future job requirements and opportunities available and also helped me to understand my strengths, interests and weaknesses.”

Shika Shree Nayak

Class 11

Our Belief

At FBS, we believe each student has a unique potential to make a difference in this world. The FBS Career Counselling process does not limit itself to matching skills with professions. Instead, it encourages students to reflect constantly:

  • “What problems do I want to solve?”
  • “What are the different career pathways to do that?”

The process broadens their aspirations. Students realise they can advance their professional growth through different career pathways, such as STEM, Humanities, Creative Arts, Social Impact, or Entrepreneurship.

The FBS Career Counselling process equips students to appreciate the diversity of options, choose wisely based on their aptitudes and strengths, and value their peers’ choices as much as their own. For instance, they understand that both women and men can do any job.

"I felt energized and confident when teachers told me that there were career choices out there for me that would suit me. Most helpful were the career counselling sessions and the way I saw things that I never would have been able to. Now there is no going back, I am sure I will do it. Thanks to everyone at FBS."

Swarup Sahoo

Class 12

FBS Career Counselling Programme

Our five-phase Career Counselling programme, from Class III to XII, gives students the emotional, behavioural and technical skills to build their career readiness. The teaching-learning methodology strengthens their foundational capabilities to write and speak English, collaborate with a team, accept diverse opinions, and set and follow goals.

Phase 1: The World of Work

  • Class III to V
  • Students learn about the concept of work, and many different careers, recognise stereotypes and gain a preliminary understanding of the skills needed.
  • Methods: Storytelling, Role Play, Visits to Workplaces, Talks

Phase II: Understanding Self

  • Class VI
  • Students take aptitude, personality, and interest inventory tests to identify their interests, skills, strengths and values.
  • Methods: Individual Assessments, Post-test Discussions

Phase III: Insights from Experience

  • Class VI to VIII
  • Students interact with professionals and people in different careers to get practical insights on employer expectations and essential competencies to work in the real world.
  • Methods: Career Talks, Workshops, Summer Internships and Camps

Phase IV: My Readiness

  • Class IX
  • Students retake the tests to account for their growth and changes in aptitude, interests and personality over the years and identify careers with this new understanding.
  • Methods: Individual Assessments, Post-test Discussions, Career Exhibitions, Expert Talks, Summer Internships

Phase V: Act to Achieve

  • Class XI
  • Each student works with the counselling team to develop a specific action plan for the next two years to identify courses and apply to colleges that will set them on their aspirational career pathway.
  • Methods: Career Development Plan, Individual Counselling, Job Shadowing, My Story Talks, Expert Interactions

What do students gain?

The process conducted over formative years of students’ academic and personal development gives them critical tools to make informed career choices in full knowledge of their interests, skills, values and opportunities.

  • Knowledge about multiple careers
  • Awareness of their interests, skills, values
  • Identifying jobs matching their aptitude and capabilities
  • Technical, language and behaviour skills for chosen professions
  • Practical exposure to the real world of work
  • Personalised academic plan to follow their dream career

The FBS Advantage

As a sister institution within the Silicon Group, FBS students have early and deep exposure to STEM and Entrepreneurship. They benefit from the mentorship of academic and industry experts associated with the Silicon Institute of Technology (SIT) and Entrepreneurship Development Cell. Students get to work on STEM projects with senior students, such as in Robotics and AI, ideate and pilot start-up ideas with entrepreneurs, and use the infrastructure at SIT.

STEM AT FBS

We deliver the highest quality STEM curriculum through expert master classes, interactions with scientists and training in industry practices.

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Entrepreneurship Development

Skill Labs, industry internships, and mentoring guide students to ideate and build, with a dedicated fund to develop the prototypes.

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Every FBS student gets personalised support in college applications.

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