Navtej Kohli Career Mission Blog

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.

Navtej Kohli brings some best career options in neurosciences. If you’re seeking career in neuroscience, this will certainly help you.
Neuroscience need not necessarily involve research. There are lots of different jobs for neuroscientists. You can pursue any career depending upon degree you possess. Neuroscience entails wide ranging careers. Navtej Kohli compiles a list of careers for Neurology aspirants.

Its a proven fact now that best of the jobs people get are through their references…more often from their friends, previous colleagues and or relatives. For getting a successful career, now its imperative to build a good network of people, colleagues and niche professionals… In online industry as well, people are using most of the web 2 avenues to form their network and communities, whether its a professional network or on a particular subject and or liking.

Whether you are looking for jobs, promotions or new clients for your business, networking will do wonders in achieving your goals. My next post will be on networking for job and career success that will cover nuts and bolts of how, where, why, and with whom to network, and also addresses the psychological issues such as personality differences and importance of the right attitude.

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