Career Tips
Ideal Career Choice
Ideal Career Choice
With the emergence of a thousand options and different industries, choosing a career becomes very difficult and knowing that once the wrong choice is made, your future is almost haunted makes the task of choosing an ideal career trickier.
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Follow these guidelines to pick a career you can develop upon;
- Evaluate Yourself: in choosing an ideal career, the first step is self-assessment and evaluation. You must first identify your attribute, values, likes and dislikes, passions, hobbies, soft skills and interests. You can make use of self-assessment and career test apps to discover this or seek the help of a guidance counsellor to help you through this stage. After this, create a list of careers that fits onto your attributes.
- Create a list of careers to explore: After the self-evaluation, create an organized long list of careers you would like to explore that fit into your attributes. For each trait or value or soft skill, you should have one career that requires it. You will probably have multiple lists in front of you. You can now on a separate list write careers that have appeared frequently for those traits.
- Explore the careers: At this point, you may have succeeded in reducing the list to 10 or 20. For each career, check out the job description, educational and training requirements, salary range and job outlook.
- Create a short list: Whilst browsing on the career, you will come across those you cannot settle with. Of you do not like the job outlook or duties of the staff or earnings, find it unaccounted non-negotiable, ross those off your list. This will narrow your list to about.
- Find more information: When you have only a few occupations left on your list, start doing more in-depth research. Make arrangement to meet with others who work in the field in which you have interest in. They are more qualified to give out firsthand knowledge concerning the careers in your list
- Decide on a Career: After doing all your findings, you are faced with making a final decision. Always go for a career that you know will offer you satisfaction you need considering all the findings you have made.
- Identify Personal Goals: Once you arrive at a decision, identify your long and short-term goals. This creates a pathway towards acquiring a high paying job in your field. Long-term personal goals takes takes a few years to actualize while you can quickly fulfill a short-term goal in a few months to three years.
- Write a Career Action Plan: Put together a career action plan, a written document that lays out all the steps you will have to take to reach your goals. Pen down all your short-term and long-term goals and also the steps you intend to take to actualize each one. Also add the barriers that may hinder your progress, highlight ways to solve each. Learn how to create an ideal career path.
Conclusion
These steps make look tedious and tasking, but it will eventually lead you to the right choice. It is okay to make the wrong choice. You can always start fresh and fix another goal. Leave a comment when if you have any questions while taking these steps.
