A Holistic Guidance System for Academic and Industrial Alignment


EOI: 10.11242/viva-tech.01.09.44

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Dr.Karishma Raut, Kunal Chaudhari, Harshad Kolekar, Karan Kale " A Holistic Guidance System for Academic and Industrial Alignment ", VIVA-IJRI Volume 1, Issue 9, Article 44, pp. 1-8, 2026. Published by, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar, India.

Abstract

The Smart Career Guidance Kiosk for Rural Students is a low-cost, offline, and multilingual system developed to address the lack of structured career counselling facilities in rural and semi-urban regions. Many students face challenges in making informed academic decisions due to limited access to professional counsellors, internet dependency and language barriers. The proposed kiosk operates as a standalone embedded system using locally hosted software and offline career dataset. It analyses user inputs such as education level, academic stream, interests and skill sets using a rule-based weighted recommendation algorithm to generate personalized career guidance. The system features a simple user-friendly interface with multilingual and audio support to accommodate students with varying levels of digital literacy. Designed for deployment in rural schools, Gram Panchayat offices, NGOs, and community learning centres.

Keywords

- Smart Career Guidance System, Rural Students, Offline Kiosk System, Career Recommendation, Multilingual Application.

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