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The word "guidance' originated back in the 1530s, and is defined as the process of directing conduct. Career guidance can be defined as a comprehensive, developmental program designed to assist individuals in making and implementing informed educational and occupational choices (US Department of Education, 2014). It's a guidance given to individuals to help them acquire the knowledge, information. Skills, and experience necessary to identify career options, and narrow them down to make one career decision. 'Literally guidance is as old as man, all through the ages human beings have for one reason considered to have known how to render such a service'. Vocational guidance in school also helps parents to have a better perspective about children to choose a better way for their career and paved the way for an employment in locality. One of the objectives of vocational guidance is to assist students' development and to execute career plans which may help them in achieving their Career's Goal. The purposes of the study are to find out the extent to which vocational guidance provide adequate career choice among secondary school students and to find out the extent to which vocational guidance can reduce the level of unemployment among secondary school students through using random sampling method. Data was collected in the form of self-developed questionnaire. Administration of questionnaire was done through Google form. Researcher collected data from 20 schools from south, east, west and north districts of Sikkim with 911 students. The study found that the career guidance counselling should be conducted at early age for learners to develop positive self-concept.