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How To Discover The Best Career For You?

samir.kavade1984@gmail.com (Samir Kavade) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:54:00 +0000

Whoever said that your career choice doesn't matter has missed out on an essential part of a person's existence. For most of us, our careers help define partly who we are what our goals and values are and what's important for us. This is probably why people spend time, money and a lot of effort to discover the best career for them. So how do you know which career path to follow? Here are some key points to keep in mind:

Ask what you want to do with your life.

Life is too short to waste time on getting an education or training that will be useless later on. However, you can't really know for sure what the future holds. Your best bet is to try and prepare yourself.

To discover which career choice is the best for you, ask yourself what you truly want to end up doing years from now. Do you like adventure? Do you like to solve mysteries and do police work? Can you spend days on end in front of a computer designing games? Is creating food masterpieces your dream job? Do you find litigation and court cases exciting?

Discovering your career choice is usually your cue to which type of education or degree to obtain.

Determine your skills and interests.

What is it that you do best? Is this something that you enjoy? Most people discover their career by finding out what they like to do. Sometimes, they even encounter it by accident, by being exposed to an activity that peaks their interest. Find out what sort of things make you happy or give you fulfillment. Check your hobbies, the type of things you like to focus on.

Use your personality as a basis.

What's your personality like? Are you the type of person who likes to work with a group of people or do you prefer to work alone? Can you handle strict deadlines and a rapidly changing environment? Do you like the prospect of travel in your work?

Are you creative, good at figures, meticulous and detail-oriented? Do you like lots of flexibility? If you're a night owl, for example, choosing a career that requires you to work early might be unsatisfactory for you later.

Consider what you value most.

Once you've embarked on a career, you'll find that you will be spending plenty of time in your job. What do you want to develop in yourself? What do you want to be? Do you want to save lives by healing people or do you want to build communities by developing land?

Do you want a career that lets you stay close to your family or perhaps you don't mind one that lets you travel from place to place? Do you want to earn lots of money or is job satisfaction more important for you?

Research.

Find out what sorts of jobs are out there. You could be fixated on a career choice that might turn out to be uninteresting once you find out about other possibilities. Open your mind to other opportunities. Read about different careers what they require, what you can learn, the type of competition you will be facing, how much you'll stand to earn, the type of people you'll meet and the possibilities for job growth.

Discover How To Make The Best Decision On A Career Choice

samir.kavade1984@gmail.com (Samir Kavade) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:50:00 +0000

Many times college students, and individuals with years of working experience, decide on careers without critically examining their own impressions and understandings of a particular career. To often they rely on someone else's attitude toward a specific career without finding out what is true and what is not.

Career planning and their choices to often is made with limited and many times inaccurate information. Rare is the person who takes the time for self analysis and gathers information to develop viable career options. If your view is limited you may be overlooking a hidden but ideal career situation.

Career myths are everywhere and the key is to test assumptions, and critically examine the information you know about a job or industry. There is considerable risk in allowing assumptions to be the basis of a career choice. The consequences can lead to a career where you have little interest and lukewarm passion. A recipe for disaster.

Some abandon work aspirations based on misconceptions about the career. They don't look into the career because they were told there was, "no money in it." Listening to others without challenging their inaccurate beliefs can cause you to rule out a possible dream job.

Career choices or changes should be approached in a critical and unbiased way. Here are four guidelines to follow to help you make the best informed choice:

1. Test all your assumptions: You may only have a fraction of the right information along with comments from family and friends. Examine everything and do comprehensive research to learn as much as possible about the career. Also, remain flexible as your research will undoubtedly uncover other promising leads.

2. Get your career information from a variety of sources: If currently in school discuss the career with a counselor or your professors. Look in the internet for relevant information. Find someone who is currently working in the prospective career and phone them to schedule a short interview. Attend job fairs and discuss the career with recruiters.

Follow-up on resources that you uncover in your basic research. Go back to your sources as you put together additional questions.

3. Critically analyze all your career information. Be a critical thinker in analyzing your research. Carefully put some thought into the sources of information, are there contradictions? Maybe some more research is in order. Think carefully about your sources of information on careers. Who can give you a better sense of what it's like to be a CPA: a couple of CPA's working in the accounting field every day or your uncle who got audited by the IRS 15 years ago due to his CPA's misjudgment?

4. Try out your career ideas: If still in school consider applying for internships in your chosen field. If possible, a part-time job in the industry will give you a better feel for both the job and industry. If you still have concerns about a career continue your research. If the proposed career looks less than exciting, your continued study will point you in the right direction.

Above all don't chose a career based only on anecdotal evidence or hearsay information. When you do make your career choice based on solid information, you'll go much farther in the career, enjoy it more and be happy you spent the time doing proper career research and analysis.

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