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Career Counseling and Guidance App for Enhanced Student Career Choices
	© 2025 by IJCTT Journal
	Volume-73 Issue-4
	Year of Publication : 2025
	Authors : P. Sai Charan Reddy, S. Periaswamy, E. Yadagiri, B. Sanjay, M. Omkar
	DOI :  10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V73I4P113

How to Cite?

P. Sai Charan Reddy, S. Periaswamy, E. Yadagiri, B. Sanjay, M. Omkar, "Career Counseling and Guidance App for Enhanced Student Career Choices," International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 95-101, 2025. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V73I4P113

Abstract
In a world where technology and the economy are changing rapidly, it can be challenging for students to match their academic strengths and personal passions with suitable professions. Welcome to this project-Empowering Future Pathways, a career counseling and guidance app that aims to positively impact the decision-making process students face regarding their career choices by providing a data-driven, personalized set of recommendations for their career pathways. By using the Jetpack Compose framework to offer an adaptive Android interface, Firebase for real-time data handling, and machine learning algorithms for personalized recommendations, the system combines psychometric testing, aptitude tests, and real-time job market analytics. The app assesses users' cognitive skills, personality traits, and career preferences, providing personalized career roadmaps and interactive counseling functions. The experimental outcomes substantiate the emergence readiness of this platform concerning reducing career uncertainty, adeptness of engagement potential, and delivering insights necessitating relevance in an industry-evolving landscape. Hosted on AWS with a scalable cloud-based architecture, this approach offers ready opportunities for building upon future improvements like the aforementioned predictive career trend analysis in the future, offering a glimpse of how IoT and AI technologies can meaningfully enable informed career decision-making and contribute to generating a skilled and adaptive workforce for a sustainable future.

Keywords
Android development, Career roadmaps, Educational technology, Student career choices guidance, Firebase authentication, Firestore database, Jetpack Compose User Interface (UI) design.

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