International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 13 Issue: 02 | Feb 2026
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Smart Career Guidance Kiosk Machine Niraj Bhurki, Hrithik Patil, Harsh Raut, Hardik Patil, Aishwarya Churi Students, Electronics & Computer Science, St John College of Engineering and Management, Maharashtra, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Key Words: Smart Career Guidance, Rural Students, Abstract - Career guidance plays a crucial role in shaping
Offline Kiosk System, Career Recommendation, SkillBased Analysis, Multilingual Application
students’ academic and professional futures, as early career decisions strongly influence long-term employability and personal development. However, a significant gap exists in the availability of structured career counselling facilities in rural and semi-urban regions. Many students face difficulties in making informed academic and career choices due to limited access to professional counsellors, unreliable internet connectivity, language barriers, and lack of awareness regarding diverse and emerging career opportunities. As a result, students often select unsuitable educational pathways, which may lead to academic dissatisfaction, dropouts, unemployment, or underemployment.
1. INTRODUCTION Career guidance is a fundamental component of the educational ecosystem, as it supports students in understanding their abilities, identifying suitable academic pathways, and planning long-term professional goals. Early career-related decisions significantly influence an individual’s future employability, job satisfaction, and personal development. Students who receive appropriate guidance are more likely to select educational programs aligned with their interests and skills, thereby improving academic performance and reducing the likelihood of course changes or dropouts.
To address these challenges, this paper presents the Smart Career Guidance Kiosk for Rural Students, a low-cost, offline, and multilingual system designed to provide accessible and self-guided career counselling. The proposed kiosk operates as a standalone embedded system using locally hosted software and an offline career dataset, thereby eliminating dependency on continuous internet connectivity. The system collects essential user inputs such as education level, academic stream, interests, and existing skill sets, and processes them using a rule-based weighted recommendation algorithm to generate personalized career guidance.
Despite its importance, structured career counselling services are unevenly distributed, with a pronounced shortage in rural and semi-urban regions. Students in these areas often lack access to trained career counsellors, career assessment tools, and updated information about available educational and professional opportunities. In many cases, students rely on informal advice from family members, peers, or local teachers, which may not accurately reflect current industry requirements or the student’s individual aptitude. This situation leads to uninformed career decisions, which can result in academic dissatisfaction, unemployment, or underemployment.
The rule-based approach ensures transparency and explainability of recommendations, allowing students to understand the reasoning behind suggested career options. A simple and user-friendly interface is provided to support students with varying levels of digital literacy. Additionally, multilingual support and offline text-to-speech functionality enable inclusive access for students from different linguistic backgrounds and those with limited reading ability.
The problem is further intensified by the rapid expansion of career options across various domains such as information technology, healthcare, engineering, design, management, and emerging interdisciplinary fields. Modern career landscapes require students to possess not only academic knowledge but also specific technical, creative, and soft skills. Without structured guidance, rural students may remain unaware of these opportunities or the pathways required to pursue them.
The kiosk is intended for deployment in rural schools, Gram Panchayat offices, NGOs, and community learning centres, where access to professional career counselling services is minimal. Experimental testing of the implemented system demonstrates reliable offline performance, fast response time, stable operation, and effective generation of career recommendations. The results indicate that the proposed system can serve as a practical and scalable solution for improving career awareness and supporting informed educational and professional decision-making among rural students.
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Existing career guidance platforms are predominantly internet-based and designed for urban populations. These platforms typically require continuous network connectivity, modern computing devices, and a certain level of digital literacy. In rural areas, internet connectivity is often unreliable or unavailable, and access to personal computers
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