WHAT IS GOOD FOR
YOU !
HERE YOU FIND OUT WHAT ARE THE GOOD CAREER
OPTIONS
The days are gone when people thought that only
doctors, engineers or IAS officers had good careers. With advancement
in technology and opportunities, many new fields offer very rewarding work
both in terms of money as well as job satisfaction. It is important
that we explore all the alternatives before choosing a career. It
is also important that the decision is taken early.
Many students do not give importance to their career plans till they
finish PUC, and then they find that they are rushed up, or opportunities
have closed down. So many others rush into careers just because everyone
else is going into it, without checking out whether it suits them individually.
INNUMERABLE CAREER OPTIONS
Just to give an idea, listed below are some of the possible careers
anyone can take up. This is not an exhaustive list, it is just to
show how wide the choices are. And remember that most of these careers
offer good salaries and promotion possibilities, for the right person:
ART: Architecture, fashion
design, fine art, commercial art, interior design, landscaping and orticulture,
music, sports
CIVIL AVIATION: Aeronautical
engineering, commercial pilots, air traffic controllers, air hostesses
CIVIL SERVICES: IAS, IFS,
IPS and many other allied central services such as railways, audits and
accounts, forests, central industrial security, information service, etc.
Similar opportunities are available at the state level, starting from KAS
to other departmental services.
COMPUTERS: Engineering, hardware,
software, multimedia and graphics, Desk Top Processing (DTP), internet,
etc.
ENGINEERING: Other than the
traditional mechanical, electrical, chemical and civil, good opportunities
are growing in electronics, IT, telecommunications, industrial, marine
and biomedical streams of engineering.
ENTERTAINMENT FIELDS: such as hotel,
travel and tourism, beautician, event marketing, etc.
FINANCE: banking, chartered
accountancy, company secretaries, cost and works accountants, merchant
banking, financial soware development, etc.
LANGUAGES: Indian and foreign
languages require translators, documentation specialists, librarians, teachers
and professors
LAW: has extended beyond the courts, to company law, international
law, financial law, mercantile law etc.
MARKETING: offers ever expanding
opportunities in sales, market research, direct marketing, and marketing
management.
LIFE SCIENCES: such as agriculture,
home science, veterinary, and the fast growing field of nutrition.
MANAGEMENT: starting from business
management going on to specialized areas like human resource development
(HRD), systems management, financial, agricultural, international trade,
etc.
MEDIA: is growing not just in traditional
journalism, but also in electronic media, which is called mass communication.
Film making, advertising, and public relations are also in demand.
MEDICAL: field offers good opportunities
for specialists in allopathy, and also homeopathy, ayurveda, dental, unani.
MILITARY: now offers very wide fields
from the regular infantry, to specialized areas like engineering, education,
law, logistics, medical, etc. with good opportunities to continue your
studies while you earn.
PARAMEDICAL: is perhaps one of the
fastest growing fields ranging from physiotherapy and occupational therapy,
to lab technicians, nurses, radiography, and speech & audiology.
SOCIAL SCIENCES: such as psychology,
social service, sociology, special education, counselling.
WHAT ARE YOU
GOOD FOR?
"Importance of matching aptitude
with interest"
Many of us are interested in a particular career
because we get glamorized by it. If someone we know
(or admire) seems to have made a big success in a particular field, we
have an intense desire to follow suit. What we need to ask ourselves
is whether our aptitude matches our interests (aptitude being the potential
to pick up skills and do well in that particular area). While one
cannot actually say whether we well in any specific field, until we have
actually got into it, we can definitely evaluate whether we have the qualities
which show a strong potential.
For example, if one wants to become a software professional, he should
ask himself what are the qualities required to do well in that field.
The basic qualities would be: A strong left brain i.e. mathe-logical thinking
Good concentration powers Preferably an introvert nature which does not
allow distractions A curious mind which has the habit of exploring A habit
of upgrading oneself, since technology changes fast in computers Reasonable
typing knowledge, etc. If one is strong in these areas, one can always
pick up the necessary knowledge and skills in software.
The next step would be meeting people from the field and finding out
what courses they went through, and hodifficulty in getting admissions,
the amount of hard work required, the financial implications, etc.
The third step would be mapping out one's own chart of step by step
moving towards that career, preparing oneself for whatever the requirements
are at each step. If one were to follow these directions, the goal is almost
certain, and one would not only be successful, but very happy working.
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