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As a journalism major one of the first and most important lessons you're taught is newsworthiness, and all of us would have our own mnemonics to remember what makes an item newsworthy, it's so etched in my memory that I have it at the tip of my tongue to date. In my bid to bring you the most newsworthy content, the counselor that first came to my mind, who satisfies all the elements of newsworthiness is Ramya Modukuri. With a two decade career spanning technology, finance and counseling across multiple countries, Ramya brings a highly disciplined, processes-oriented approach to career and college advising. Her specialty lies in helping schools set up their counseling practice and this is what she is currently doing at The Shri Ram Academy Hyderabad, India. In addition to authoring popular articles on counseling, she has presented at 35+ panels and sessions at national and international counseling conferences. I requested Ramya to give our global counselor family insight into a topic that affects all the stakeholders in the counseling life cycle and here are her thoughts.

A College Counselor is definitely the unsung hero of the education industry because the advise a counselor gives shapes the career and subsequently the life of a student. However, counselors usually tend to be swamped with work (plus these days most of us suffer from TLDR syndrome) and find it increasingly tough to keep abreast with the most current information in an industry as fluid as education. Therefore, I wanted to come up with a quick and handy tool which will provide you with key takeaways as you advise 'future ready' students. The India Skills Report is released every year and this 128-paged document is a great resource for every stakeholder in the education industry. I've called upon a trusted source Dr. Srisharan Govindarajan, Strategic Business Unit Head - Sponsored Research and Tech Transfer, IIT Madras Global, to decipher the report for us and highlight points that would be relevant for counselors globally.

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