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5 Top Tips for Helping Students Choose the Right Career

Tips for Helping Students Choose the Right Career

road-sign-798176_640There is a quote saying “An unguided person is just like an unguided missile”.  Nevertheless, both an unguided missile and an unguided person can do their own level of damage. Educationists and career counselors across the world have spent years on devising methods that students and even professionals can follow to land in the right career in their lives.

It is one thing to like a specific career but having the right kind of talent to pursue that career is another thing that often goes unattended. This is why many people often fail in the career they have chosen based on their liking.

Here are top 5 tips that you can follow to choose the right career.

1. Know yourself

The first step of launching your career planning to know yourself. This includes taking a brief account of your strengths and weaknesses. There are always going to be things that you cannot remember on finger tips and would require an advance technique like a SWOT analysis or any verified aptitude test. You can even do your own personality test which is available on the internet. This way, you will have an overview of your own personality. It can also help to have a service like Resumes.Expert your resume and help you figure out the best ways to present yourself and your experience.

2. “I Like” vs “I can”

The perfect scenario of career planning is that you want to choose a career that you like very much and at the same time you have the right attitude towards that career. This is not going to happen with everyone and this is why you need to list down the things you like and the list of things that you can do.

Do you see a point where your liking and abilities meet? This is the sweet spot that you should certainly pursue but this is not the end—rather, it’s an opportunity for a new beginning.

3. Learn and explore

At a certain point in life, it is not mandatory to make a decision based on your liking and abilities. You can always learn new things and explore things that you have a little idea about or have never heard in your life. This is going to be specifically important when you are double minded about two or more career choices.

You should invest a good amount of time and try to learn about careers and the kind of skills it requires. Although learning is a life long process but you will need to bring your previous learning at a certain point in life to make a big decision such a choosing a career.

4. Test and try

Many people land in the wrong career because they had never tested their skills that are going to be needed later when you choose a career. For example, if you want to be a pilot but you did not know you are afraid of heights, it is going to create a huge hurdle in your career.

To make sure you are going to choose the career that fits your personality and aptitude, you need to closely test and try out your skills against the requirements of the career you are going to pursue. You can try sending resumes to different organizations in the field of your choice that are offering internships.

5. Passion and Patience

If you have found a career that you think fits your personality and you have the right talent to grow in that field, you should then focus on sharpening your skills. To achieve success in the career you have chosen, you will need a lot of passion and patience. It won’t come overnight but is a thing that will evolve within you over time if you put the right temperament into it.

Evolving in the field that you have chosen

Evolution is the purpose of life. There is no reason why you should not look for the next destination. By the time you have reached this spot, it would about be time to step as professional into the field you have chosen. Choosing a career does not end when you land a job, instead, you are just half way through the whole process.

The ideal case is that you stick to your career because you have put a lot of effort into making the decision, however, it is possible that you would like to switch to a different career within the same field or even change the whole field itself.

The basic purpose of choosing a career at an early stage of educational life is to make sure you find yourself in a place that you are comfortable working in. Despite all the effort, if you seem unsatisfactory with the decision, there is no harm in switching your career. This is something you should always be prepared for. At times one industry is reaching the skies and within years it is so much saturated there is no further scope for that field. You always need to have a backup plan.

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