Four steps to choosing right career - Navtej Kohli
Navtej Kohli brings a simple 4-step guide that will help you choose your right career.
Most students don’t get time to spend in career planning during their graduation days. Some remain busy in work to earn money to pay their way through university, while others are mature students with a young family that they need to support. Students have time for anything but visiting career services. But choosing your right career path is very important. Navtej Kohli career blog presents a standard model that will help you in choosing your career.
Career choice revolves around 4 main stages:
• Self-awareness- This involves looking at your SKILLS, VALUES, INTERESTS and PERSONALITY and analysing where your strengths and weaknesses lie.
• Recognizing the opportunity- Gather information on the opportunities open to you. Visit specific careers education programmes for your degree subject. Many jobs are open to graduates of any degree subject. Early in your course you should look at the Vacation Opportunities open to you. As well as allowing you to earn money, they may allow you to gain relevant skills and perhaps an insight into the types of job you are interested in, putting you at the head of the queue when you eventually apply for jobs. The Careers Information Room has a wide variety of booklets, reference files, books, DVDs and computer programmes you can use. You may like to enter Postgraduate Study instead of directly entering a job, or it may be required for a particular career such as law or teaching. Here it may be important to apply early in your final year and to look at whether funding will be available to pay for the course.
• Decision Making - Talk to graduates already working in your chosen career area. Spending a day with a person in the career you are considering is the next best thing to actually doing a job, to find out what it is like. If you have done this, you will come across as much better prepared at interviews. Of course, the other important part in making decisions is discussing it with other people. Friends, family and tutors can all play an important part here. The Duty Careers Adviser is available every day without an appointment for a short discussion and can often help to inject reality into your ideas for example, pointing out that you may need to fund your way through a postgraduate course to enter your chosen career. You can also take help of several computer programs available on the internet.
• Taking Action-
It involves:
1. Finding out about the EMPLOYERS that offer the types of jobs you are interested in
2. Search our VACANCY DATABASE
3. Attending INTERVIEWS
4. Perhaps taking APTITUDE TESTS and attending SELECTION CENTRES
First look at the Timeline, which gives you an idea of what you should be doing when during your time at UKC in terms of Career Planning. Sometimes you may have to return to previous stages in the process, for example, if you are not able to get into your first choice career.
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