Through career counseling, student are enabled to choose from wide range of career options, as it will help them in assessing their interests, values, and talents. Counselors will help in guiding students and assisting them in opting the right path and achieving milestones.

Apart from following the crowd (peers) or accepting choices made by parents, or having huge influence by media, students get more information on variety of career opportunities through counseling.

Counseling helps students in self-actualization, self-realization and help them to become fully functioning persons.

According to Dunsmoor and Miller, counseling helps students by:

• Giving information to students on matters important to success.
• Giving information about student, which will be helping a student in solving self-exploration problems.
• Establishing understanding in students regarding to the problems which they might face along the way.
• Helping students work out a plan for solving his / her difficulties in education.
• Helping students know their potential, interests, abilities aptitudes and mostly opportunities.
• Being an encourager, motivator and helping them develop more abilities through right attitudes.
• Helping them get inspired for successful endeavor which leads them towards attainment of goals
• Assisting students in planning for educational and vocational choices.