YOUR CHILD’S
 
 
ALL INDIA ONLINE SURVEY
 
Part - 1: Demographic Details
 
Your Gender: 
Your Age: 
Your Basic Qualification: 
Your Professional Qualification: 
Please note:If you have more than one child, please fill in details of the eldest child.
Your Child’s Age: 
Your Child’s current education: 
You Belong to: 
Your Occupation: 
Employed  Own Business
Choose the Industry that best matches your company products: 
Your Annual Household Income: 
Your spouse working: 
Yes  No
   
Part – 2: Survey Questionnaire
 
As you read through each question, please select the option that best describes or is the closest to your response. For your benefit, we have also included some explanations along with the options.
 
Q1. How do you define 'career success' for yourself?
Monetary achievement
  (Earning more and more money)
Person-Career fit
  (Your aptitude and interests matches the nature of your job and professional field)
Organizational, societal or political stature and power
  (Being powerful in your organization, or having high social/political status)
Professional growth and achievement
  (Your Growth in professional/intellectual expertise, always achieving company targets, getting multiple career promotions)
   
Q2. As per your definition of 'career success' (as marked in the above response), how successful do you think you have been so far in your career?
Very Successful
Successful
Moderately Successful
Somewhat unsuccessful
Unsuccessful
   
Q3. When had you started thinking about and planning for your career?
Grades 7-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11 – 12
During and after college
During and after post-graduation studies
   
PLEASE NOTE: As the next sections get more focused on your perceptions and insight, you might sometimes find it difficult to select an option that best summarizes your response. In such cases, please choose the option that’s the closest to your best response.
   
Also, for a few questions, you might feel a combination of options shall best represent your answer. In such cases, please choose the option that you feel has the highest relevance to you or your child.
   
PLEASE NOTE that you cannot choose more than one option for any question.
   
Questions 4 to 6 are oriented towards the key factors in your self and life that might have lead you to your first career choice and / or professional field.
   
Q4. Which of these environmental factors had influenced you the most in choosing your first career or field of profession?
Your parents' expectations regarding your professional future
  (Your parents’ aspirations and preferences regarding your future career and profession)
Predominant occupation(s) in the region where you grew up
  (Opportunities which were available in the town or city where you lived)
Observing your sibling (brother / sister) or role model
  (You were influenced by what your role model/ brother/sister liked and did)
Career choices and interests of your peers / friends
  (You were influenced by what your friends liked and did)
   
Q5. Which of these opportunity factors had influenced you the most in choosing your first career or field of profession?
Your gender
  (Your being a girl or boy)
Your family's socio-economic status
  (Monetary power and social status of your family)
Past or ongoing practical work experience
  (Some work experience you had at the time of choosing your field of profession)
The number of education or employment options you had where you grew up
  (The range of education/employment opportunities available to you in your region)
   
Q6. Which of these self or personality factors had influenced you the most in choosing your first career or field of profession?
Active self reflection, career research and planning
  (You thought about your career objectives and interests, researched different types of career, and planned for your first career steps)
Your academic achievement scores/grades
  (Your scores/marks in different academic subjects)
Your skill sets and domain knowledge at the time of making your career choice
  (Your subject matter knowledge (e.g., engineering, economics) and skills (e.g., communication, software programming) at the time of choosing your first career)
Your determination and resilience to choose your most preferred career
  (How determined and resilient you were to choose the career that you felt was best for you)
   
Questions 7 to 9 are related to the opportunities and support that your child has in making the right career choice for himself/herself.
   
Q7. Which of the following opportunities does your child have the greatest access to?
Discussion of pros and cons of your and your spouse’s occupations
  (Discussion of what went right or wrong with his/her parents’ career choices)
Exploration of occupations beyond those of your region
  (Knowing about career options and opportunities away from the city/town he/she lives in)
Active career mentoring by role model or older sibling (brother / sister)
  (Obtaining career oriented counselling and feedback from his/her role model, brother, or sister)
Peer discussions on career decision-making, organized by school / institution
  (Formal discussions of career choices with his/her classmates, organized by school/institution)
   
Q8. Which of the other following opportunities does your child have the greatest access to?
Critical discussions of more ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ careers with your daughter or son, respectively
  (Fair, objective discussions of pros and cons of ‘masculine’ careers with your daughter, or ‘feminine’ careers with your son)
Your exploration of different financial assistance opportunities for your child's education (e.g., loans, government subsidies)
  (Your initiative to understand different alternatives available to sponsor your child’s education)
School-industry joint initiatives to provide practical, real-life experience to students
  (Initiatives undertaken by school/institution with industry to provide practical knowledge on or work exposure to different professional fields)
Associations with vocational training and employment institutions for your child
  (Enrolling or associating your child with institutions that provide vocational training and employment)
   
Q9. Which of the following initiatives is your child currently most engaged in, with or without others’ support?
Purposeful career planning based on self-insight and external-feedback
  (Planning one’s career moves based on an understanding of his/her career objectives and interests; researching different types of career; making plans to achieve and grow in the right career)
Understanding of the career opportunities, limitations, and myths related to academic scores
  (Understanding that scoring well in a subject may not translate to abundant career opportunities in the related field, or that scoring poorly in a subject may not limit or close all relevant career opportunities)
Critically analyzing own portfolio of interests, cumulative skills, and past academic or extra-curricular successes & failures
  (Analyzing and understanding one’s talent, skills, capabilities and development needs)
Discussing and reflecting upon the relative importance of different career success criteria (e.g., monetary reward, person-job fit, autonomy/independence) for himself/herself
  (Understanding what career success personally means most and least to him/her)
   
STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT
   
Q10. In the present economic, academic and social environment, when do you think the process of career planning should begin for your child?
Grades 7-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11 – 12
During and after college
During and after post-graduation studies
   
Q11. What is most important to you in supporting your child through his/her career decision-making process?
Your child’s career passion and interests
Your perspective of current career realities
Societal expectations, pressures and norms
   
Q12. To what extent are you open to exploring non-traditional career options (e.g., Fusion Dance Choreographer, Wellness Expert) for your child?
Extremely open
Open
Can consider sometimes
Shall consider very selectively
Won’t consider
   
   
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