Silver Fern Education Consultants has also been working exclusively with some of the most prestigious schools of North India under its premium division i.e Career Desk. Career Desk is our initiative of providing trusted guidance and counseling services to students within the school premises itself, through the establishment of a permanent help desk inside the school. Under our Career Desk venture, we are established in 18 premium schools in North India, and various others, to recruit students for first-rate institutions across the globe.
Extraordinary ambitions must be matched by exceptional guidance, and the Premium Division at Silver Fern Education Consultants is committed to exactly that. The Premium Division offers premium offerings to highly motivated students determined to write outstanding success stories. The counsellors in the Premium Division hold extensive experience in grooming students for top-ranked universities, facilitating handsome study abroad scholarships and offering mentoring that is tailored to students’ career success.
Students who aim to make it to the top 50 to 100 universities in the world need a separate class of mentoring that comes from a premium mindset. The Premium Division works to bridge the gap between students’ aspirations and achievements. Further, the Premium Division looks at learning from a holistic perspective and has a clear understanding of the dimensions of future success that go far beyond academic grades.
This division offers end-to-end assistance and guidance to students from as early as grades 8th and 9th. The journey of a student with the Premium Division begins with a methodical psychometric evaluation that leads students to the true realization of their abilities, aptitude, personalities and interests. This is followed by conducive sessions with expert career counsellors and further extends to systematic profile building that is tailored to each student’s goals, strengths and areas of interest.
Over the next 2 to 3 years, the student is groomed in a streamlined manner to create extraordinary passion projects, social impact projects, supercurriculars and much more. In this manner, the Premium Division guides students to craft outstanding profiles through a logical and highly personalized approach to experiential learning. Eventually, these profiles are seen as the best fit for admission officers at top-ranked universities as they make admission and scholarship decisions. The Premium Division further facilitates applications to top global universities, along with scholarship applications and much more.
Through this end-to-end guidance, we have helped thousands of students succeed in their higher education and career goals.
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Our designated Career Desk counselors offer valuable guidance to school students on career choices and achieving their career goals. The vision behind starting a separate segment, the Career Desk finds its inspiration in the company’s vision.
We want students to start working on their study abroad dreams or career choices from grade 9th itself. The sooner students embark on the journey of holistic development the greater their claim to the apex of success. This is the central idea and the thought we reinforce among school students via our Career Desk. Speaking of holistic development, the Career Desk operates in a systematic manner extending diverse opportunities to students.
As a part of the Premium Division, the Career Desk model establishes permanent career counselling setups within schools across the country. Through well-qualified and proficient career counsellors, Career Desk ensures easy access to career counselling and mentoring to students from grade 8th onwards. We are now the strategic career counselling partners for a large number of schools across North India and our credible services have made a real difference in terms of students getting the desired clarity and information early in their lives.
In today’s world, career counselling has become indispensable for students to make stream and career choices that they can be sure of. With traditional careers becoming obsolete, widespread automation across industries and new opportunities emerging in the form of unconventional careers, students must be more thoughtful of their choices than ever before. Counsellors in the Career Desk segment ensure that students get the right knowledge, information and exposure about conventional and unconventional careers with their future scope for them to have clarity while picking their majors.
Leading students to informed decisions is done in a systematic and phased manner. It begins with the conduct of a highly standardized and well-structured psychometric evaluation. This evaluation gauges students’ aptitude, ability, personalities and interests. Further, personalized career counselling sessions present a detailed analysis of these attributes along with the recommended stream, subject combinations and career possibilities. Each recommendation is explained in detail and backed by effective research on future scope. Reports are presented to students in a conducive environment and in the presence of their parents.
Our partner schools include St. John’s High School, Chandigarh, Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, Yadavindra Public School, Mohali, Gurukul Global School, Chandigarh, DPS Patiala and Doon International School, Mohali, among many others. The Career Desk also associates with schools for short-term projects apart from career counselling. These projects include organizing events, community service outreach, international educational trips, guest lectures by Industry experts and a lot more.
Besides, the Career Desk team also lays equal emphasis on skill enhancement and knowledge building through regular sessions for the students of our partner schools. The scope of these sessions varies from emotional intelligence, future jobs & skills, public speaking, leadership mastery and stress management to knowledge of international and national entrance exams. A broad spectrum of sessions, segregated classwise, is offered to the students at these schools with the idea of shaping their skills, personality and knowledge for the better.
Over the years, the Career Desk has been highly successful in mobilizing awareness and knowledge among thousands of students and parents who could look beyond preconceived notions and make prudent academic and career decisions.
Our Career Desk counselors perpetually innovate to find new ways in which high school students can be empowered. The impact that this division has created over a short tenure is massive and has truly empowered students. In Career Desk, students of our partner schools have found a trustworthy resource for launching their career trajectories.
Career Desk has proven to be a worthwhile launchpad for students to aim for top-ranked universities with study abroad scholarships. We have secured scholarships and financial aid of over USD 2.8 million in the past year alone.
Thus far, our Career Desk counselors have assisted more than 2000 students to secure admissions to premium universities. A lot of these students are also entitled to prestigious study abroad scholarships.
At Silver Fern Education Consultants, we keep experiential learning and innovation at the epicenter of each profile-building objective. The profile-building journeys we map for students are highly personalized and tailored to their strengths. The guiding principle of our profile building is to create various avenues of holistic development in a research-backed, logical, and systematic approach with incremental milestones for the students.
Over the years, through meticulous profile enhancement along the lines of students’ intended majors, we have helped them make it to the top universities of the world like New York University, University of Toronto, UBC, University of Alberta and others, most of them also winning prestigious scholarships. With the effective understanding of what admission officers look for in student profiles, we create a unique blueprint for each student that leads them to their academic and career objectives.
We aim to create value addition across 13 broad dimensions of profile building, as listed below.
Helping students enhance their academic knowledge through rigorous academic development facilitated by online courses, realistic academic learning, industrial visits and helping them connect with the right mentors to enhance their knowledge base.
Helping students master research and innovation through the right exposure and guidance that leads them to accomplish their research objectives. We push students beyond their comfort zones in a strategic manner to produce unique outcomes of research or reimagine the status quo of things through the lens of innovation. We also help students find the right experts to accomplish research publications that separate them from their peers.
We offer practical and industrial insights through a series of initiatives or measures that entail lectures from global experts, finding professional internship opportunities for students, facilitating job shadowing and a lot more.
We are partnered with more than 15 NGOs across various cities, through which we create unique community service projects and initiatives for our profile-building students. We craft unique community projects for each student around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out by the UN.
We give students realistic exposure to skill-building so that they can make an early start towards developing the skills that will give them a competitive edge to thrive in the future. The skill-building objectives are established in a logical and incremental manner.
We not only help students enhance their leadership aptitude and skills through intelligible brainstorming activities but also work towards finding the best-fit leadership roles for them to learn by doing. We lay great emphasis on field-specific leadership development so that these students can emerge as future change makers in their respective fields.
We handpick the best-fit extracurricular and creative pursuits for students that are in great synchronization with their core interests. We help students craft unique and impactful projects or exhibits that speak for their keen interest in a particular extracurricular activity or a creative pursuit.
We add value to students’ learning, perspectives and cultural intelligence through various avenues that offer a high degree of global exposure. These include international academic immersion programs, hosting international faculty for workshops, finding the best summer school programs for students and a lot more.
We guide students to give a voice to their passions and create a tangible impact with well-thought-out and distinctive passion projects that represent the students’ keen interest in a particular field or activity in a loud and compelling manner. These passion projects give them a unique identity and separate them from their peers with a well-defined competitive advantage.
We assist students in perfecting their application readiness, including their CVs, essays, statements of purpose, list of Common App activities and more. We help them with comprehensive application readiness to live up to our promise of end-to-end assistance. Besides, we also help them with effective and strategic personal branding, both offline and online.
We organize communication training modules for students and create innovative opportunities for them to challenge themselves and enhance their critical thinking skills in the process. We lay great emphasis on grooming students to be confident communicators and critical thinkers of high merit.
We also provide students with the right guidance on various entrance exams like SAT, APs, ACT and others that substantiate their applications and help them create a sense of academic merit. Besides, we also guide students for language proficiency tests to supplement their applications.
There is effective mentorship on offer for students, whether it is about enhancing their knowledge, skills, entrepreneurial abilities, research skills or more. Moreover, we constantly supervise students’ efforts in the direction of effective networking with alumni networks, professors and industrial connections to create ample opportunities for themselves.
There is also a wide range of other offerings that the Premium Division has to make. These include the following.
We collaborate with schools to help them organize Model United Nations Conferences wherein we take care of the entire event as knowledge partners. Our expert MUN advisors have helped a large number of schools organize their maiden MUN conferences. Some of these schools include St. John’s High School, Chandigarh, DPS Karnal, MMIS Ambala, Brookfield International School, New Chandigarh, among others.
As a part of our initiative to offer real professional exposure to our enrolled students and students from our partner schools, we create networking events in the form of internship fairs. This is where the most promising startups and NGOs are found under one roof for students to find the best-fit internship opportunities for themselves.
We regularly host faculty-led workshops for students either virtually or offline. Professors from top global universities have conducted amazing workshops on Artificial Intelligence, leadership and more in the past and this is something we keep doing on a regular basis. Workshops taken by faculty at top global universities empower students in a real sense.
We also organize events and competitions like Shark Tank, legal conclaves, leadership bootcamps and more to challenge students so that they can bring out the best in them and learn through unforgettable experiences.
Under the Premium Division, we also conduct large-scale career fairs where students and parents have access to credible information on careers and their future scopes. Not only that, but these career fairs bring all stakeholders together under one roof for networking, internships and recruitment.
We do highly customized events not only for our partner schools but also for other schools that reach out to us for assistance. These bespoke events are a part of schools’ efforts to facilitate effective knowledge, skill building and experiential learning for their students. The most successful examples of such events include the various multi-country education fairs that brought global education within the premises of these schools. The list further includes various other events of all kinds that added significant value to students’ learning and knowledge.
Last but not least, we also conduct state-of-the-art interschool competitions in collaboration with schools across the country to encourage competitive spirit among students and push them to bring out the best in them. While these competitions act as great opportunities for students to showcase their abilities, for schools, these competitions help them create the brand perception of holistic learning.
The Premium Division is committed to constant brainstorming and innovation to create novel avenues of experiential learning and holistic development for students.
