Odisha Career Portal for Secondary / Higher Secondary Students

The portal includes information on more than 550 career paths and students will be able to access more than 2,62,000 colleges and vocational institutes with the information on 17,000 plus undergraduate, postgraduate colleges, and vocational institutes in the State and country. Detailed information regarding 1,150 entrance exams including the application procedure is given. Information is also available on more than 1,120 scholarships, competitions, and fellowships for higher education in India and abroad.

Odisha Career Portal Objective:-

• The main objective of the Odisha career portal is to help students from classes 9 to 12 students.
• Anyone can apply with the help of two languages like English and Odia available on the portal so that the students can understand both languages carefully.
• This portal will help students in Odisha state acquire knowledge on wide-ranging career options.
• For those students who are pursuing professional courses, they can get advice from experts in renowned institutes. It will be available on this portal.

Key features of the Odisha Career Portal portal:-

• This Odisha career portal is related to 550 career paths.
• Odisha students will gain access to more than 2, 62,000 colleges and vocational training institutes spread throughout the country via this attractive portal.
• Almost 17,000 graduate and postgraduate courses will be provided to the students applying for this portal's facility across the country.
• They can get course details from the various vocational institute.
• The students will be able to give more than 1,150 entrance exams for achieving higher education in India through this portal.
• The students will get 1,120 scholarships, competitions, and fellowships to pursue higher education in India and abroad via this portal.
• This Odisha career portal will provide access to be updated in India and abroad.

There are numerous career opportunities that are available for students but due to lack of information students are not able to get the benefit of these Career opportunities. Keeping this situation in mind the Government of Odisha has launched the Odisha career portal. Through this portal information regarding different careers will be made available. This article covers all the important aspects of the portal. You will get to know how you can take advantage of this portal. Other than that you will also get to know about Odisha’s career portal’s objective, benefits, features, eligibility, required documents, application procedure, etc. So if you are interested in taking advantage of the portal then you have to go through this article very carefully till the end.

Benefits And Features Of Odisha Career Portal

• The Government of Odisha has launched the Odisha Career Portal for secondary And Higher secondary students.
• Through this portal, students can access information regarding different careers. Other than that this portal will also allow the students to interact with teachers.
• The Department of school and mass education has launched this portal in collaboration with UNICEF.
• Career guidance will be provided through this portal. Other than that, mobile-friendly apps will develop.
• The technical partner for the career portal is the Aasman foundation.
• This portal has been made available in the local Odia language.
• This portal will aggregate information regarding careers, colleges, professional courses, vocational courses, entrance exams, and scholarship opportunities.
• Career Portal will include information on over 550 career paths.
• Students will be able to access more than 262000 colleges and vocational institutes.
• This portal has information on 17000 plus undergraduate, post-graduate colleges, and vocational institutes in the state and country.
• Detailed information regarding the 1150 entrance examination, including the application procedure, will also be available on this portal.
• Other than that information regarding more than 1120 scholarships, competitions, and fellowships for higher education will also be available on this portal

Odisha Career Portal will include information on over 550 career paths. Students will be able to access more than 262000 colleges and vocational institutes. This portal has information on 17000 plus undergraduate, postgraduate colleges, and vocational institutes in the state and country. Detailed information regarding the 1150 entrance examination including the application procedure will also be made available on this portal. Other than that information regarding more than 1120 scholarships, competitions, and fellowships for Higher education will also be available on this portal

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The Government of Odisha has launched the Odisha Career Portal for secondary And Higher secondary students. Through this portal, students can access information regarding different careers. Other than that this portal will also provide opportunities for the students to interact with teachers. The Department of school and mass education has launched this portal in collaboration with UNICEF. Career guidance will be provided through this portal. Other than that, a mobile-friendly app will be developed. The technical partner for the portal is the Aasman foundation. This portal has been made available in the local Odia language. Information regarding careers, colleges, professional courses, vocational courses, entrance exams, and scholarship opportunities will be aggregated through this portal.

The portal includes information on more than 550 career paths and students will be able to access more than 2,62,000 colleges and vocational institutes with the information on 17,000 plus undergraduate, and postgraduate colleges, and vocational institutes in the State and country. Detailed information regarding 1,150 entrance exams including the application procedure is given. Information is also available on more than 1,120 scholarships, competitions, and fellowships for higher education in India and abroad.

Minister, School and Mass Education Samir Ranjan Dash highlighted that this career portal had come at a pertinent time as it is the need of the hour to ensure all children acquire knowledge on wide-ranging career options and make informed choices during the unprecedented education emergency because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most impressive aspect of this career portal is that its content is localized and contextualized. Students would be able to log in to the dashboard through a unique ID created to access information, post queries, and apply.

Principal Secretary, School and Mass Education Department Satyabrat Sahoo said, "We hope that the career portal reaches all Secondary and Higher Secondary students with its services and information. The portal will enable adolescents to choose a career path in alignment with their aspirations and aptitudes and help to connect them with work opportunities. This also provides opportunities to interact with great personalities, and mentors from reputed professional and vocational institutes, enabling students to further understand potential learning and career opportunities. "

While welcoming the guests, SPD, Bhupinder Singh Poonia highlighted the massive impact on the lives of students from Secondary and Higher Secondary across Odisha in the coming years by addressing the development needs and career concerns of adolescent students to undergo huge physical and emotional transformation to face global challenges.

Chief of Field Office, UNICEF, Dr. Monika Nielsen said that the Odisha career portal is a significant medium for equipping adolescent students of Secondary and Higher Secondary in the State to navigate a smooth transition from school to work through Higher Education. UNICEF is committed to supporting quality learning interventions state-wide.