A “Career and Counselling Cell” has been established in Ravenshaw University with assistance from Higher Education Department, Government of Odisha. The focus of the cell is to facilitate and nurture the students for their personal development and career. The cell is regularly conducting career counselling and soft skill development sessions. The talk, training/ workshop etc. organized for the students facilitate them in preparing for their future challenges.
Motivating and guiding students for entrepreneurship is also a thrust area of the cell.
The cell has also started a lecture series namely ICAN (Inspiration, Career counselling And motivatioN), a brain child of Prof. Ishan Kumar Patro, the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor. The first two lectures of this series were held on 14-11-2019. Two speakers Mr. Ramkumar Nair and Dr. Karthikeyan R spoke on “Entrepreneurship: The Road Less Travelled” and “Do What You Love: On Self Discovery and Career Planning” respectively. The third talk was delivered by Mr. Manas Roul” on “Reignite Your Hidden Power”. During these talks a number of faculty members as well as students were present.