how do you decide what career path is right for you??
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Try The Call.  It really works.  www.thecallonline.com
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It's always a good idea to define a "career" before making career choices.\n\nAn ideal career is made up of four critical elements: talent, passion, meaning and reward.\n\nTalent is what you do better than other people.\n\nPassion is your emotional connection to your work, it's what makes you feel alive, it's what you love to do and find joy in.\n\nMeaning is the sense that your work is important and contributes to a better community, a better quality of life for others, a better society.\n\nReward is simply the financial compensation you're getting as well as all the resources you have access to.\n\nNo matter what career you choose, there is always a trade-off between these four key elements. For example, in some careers or jobs, you might make more money but feel less joy; you may feel you contribute more to society, but you feel less passionate about your work; you may feel you get to develop your unique talent, but you're not making a lot of money.\n\nThe key is to understand what trade-offs you are making, and coming to terms with them.\n\nIn the case of an international business degree, the doors are wide open for you. Every little career decision you make will help you progress along one of the four axes identified above (talent, passion, meaning, reward).\n\nI know it's tempting for business majors (I'm one myself) to focus on the financial reward, but that is only ONE out of the three critical elements of a great career.\n\nA career is the biggest activity in anyone's life, so it's worth it to spend a lot of time thinking about and planning it.\n\nGood luck!
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i really wanna figure out what i wanna do with my life.
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One of the most critical steps involved in making course and career choices is self-awareness. This refers to the extent to which you know yourself. By developing an understanding of yourself, you are in a better position to research and select a career and course that you will enjoy and will be successful at. What are your skills and aptitudes? \nWhat are your interests? \nWhat are your values? \nWhat is your personality? \nWhat factors do you need to consider when making your course/career decision?  \nIn order to make good career decisions, you need to be aware of the current labour market trends. That is, knowing what is going on within your industry of interest. \n \nOccupational description \nWork conditions \nSalary/Income \nJob openings \nSkill requirements \nTraining requirements \nFuture projections of employment prospects \n\n\nBy gaining a realistic view of the current labour market you are in better position to make decisions about course and career options. Sometimes there are large discrepancies between job or course titles and the reality of the nature of the work and employment prospects. Being aware of employment opportunities, salaries, training requirements, and key tasks and duties associated with particular occupational groups will help you make an informed decisionOnce you have a better understanding of yourself as a person and the latest labour market trends, you are ready to start identifying what career path is for youStep 1 \nNarrow down your list of occupations of interest so that you can explore a manageable number, such as 3 to 6. \n\n\nStep 2 \nConsider how each occupation fits with your values, interests, personality and skills \n\nStep 3 \nFind out more information about each occupation so that you can you can make a better decision. There are two ways to get more information about occupation's that interest you:
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No career is any good if you don't enjoy it.  You will end up quitting and looking for something you like.  Try to find something that you would have fun doing the rest of your life.  Guidance counselors have tests that show your interests and match them with careers.
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Make a list of all the things you like to do. Is there anything on that list you would like to all the time? If so, choose something in that field. If not, find something you what to keep learning about and choose a job that goes with it.
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You actually never really know if you are in the right career.  You just make the best choices at the time.  And in today's world someone just starting out in the world of work can expect to change careers a few times.  My daughter who is 30, is going through her second career change now.  Another daughter who is 28 is about to enter her second career.  And two daughters who are in their 30's are well into second and third careers.\n\nAnd do you know something else?  I am retired, a grandma, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!!  So don't worry about it too much and just get on with what feels right for now.
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take some time to think about how happy you really are with your job and where your career is taking you. if you feel like you want to try something else, go for it. you can always come back to a similar job in that field but you will never know if youre missing out on something you would love if you dont try!
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Best thing to do is something called an "informational interview" with people who work in the field.  Instead of framing this question along the line of degrees, look at *what it is you want to do*.  Then look at people who are in that job, call them up, and extremely politely ask them if they would be willing to speak with you about career/educational choices.  Ask them how they got where they got, whether a degree would be useful, etc.\n\nThere should be literature in your local library that would also be useful.  Good luck!
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Well, the choice is entirely up to you. What are you interested in?\n\nWould you like to pursue a career in medical sciences? choose biotech, it's a rising career.\n\nElectronics and mechanics are pretty old players of the block. You get into these through a good college, say IIT, or DCE, then you are bound to reach a rewarding place.\n\nBut the question really is - what interests you? \nBecause if you're just gonna do something just for the sake of doing it, then it wont work. because you're not gonna like it.\n\nFind out what you really want to do, and who you want to be for the rest of your life.
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One suggestion is to take a personality test that will help you determine some careers you may be interested in (sorry, I don't know any of their names, but your school guidance counselor may be able to help you).\n\nWhat I did was to start looking through the college catalog.  I looked at classes offered in different majors.  When I found a lot of classes in one major that sounded fun and interesting, I thought that would be a good choice.  After all, you should enjoy yourself in college, and if  you enjoy your major, you will probably enjoy your career.\n\n(Incidentally, I majored in botany and have been working as a botanist for the last 15 years.  I love it!)
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Some colleges, especially community colleges, have career services departments where you can go and do vocational testing that will tell you what the best career paths are for you based on your skills and interests.  You should try that.  There may be similar tests online.
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Follow what's in your heart.\n\nChoose what to believe in, and just make your choice.
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What is your major? That will determine where you should go
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The first thing you have to answer is: is there something you really want to do?  Sometimes we don't follow what we really want because it seems risky (like following a passion for acting) because it doesn't have much status (like plumbing, though one makes a lot of money doing it), or because it is low-paying (like teaching.)  If this is the case, I say GO FOR IT -- you will be much happier if you pursue what you really want.\n\nBut, assuming that you have NO idea what you want to do, consider taking a career inventory test.  There are many.  The Meyers-Briggs is the most famous (although it gives you much more information than what career to follow, it's more about how you relate; this gives you valuable information about what careers are best suited.  If you don't mind military recruiters calling you all day and all night, the ASVAB is a free test that will give you a lot of direction.  Search for "career test" in google or yahoo! and you will get tons of choices.  Finally, if you can't find anything on the internet, it might be worth some money to go to a career counselor.  In 6 sessions or so (at about $100 a session), s/he can test you, help you interpret a test, and help you develop a plan of action.  If you're still in school, you may have career resource people who can help you with this for free.\n\nFinally, it's useful to take a look at what are "hot" professions, always keeping in mind what is hot today may be cool tomorrow (remember the tough time computer programmers had getting a job after the internet bubble burst.  Of course, Computer Programming is once again hot.)  Monster lists the following as hot jobs for 2006: \n\n\nComputer Programmer\n\nOccupational Therapist\n\nPhysiotherapist\n\nDental Hygienist\n\nEmployment Counsellor or Specialist\n\nElectrical and Electronics Engineer\n\nFinancial Manager\n\nPharmacist\n\nEnvironmental Engineer\n\nPersonal Support Worker
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The answer lies in YOU (within you). You still did not figure out who you are. Find out what drives you or motivates you. discover your passion, analyse your strengths and weaknesses, set your goal and decide what you want to be in future.\nIf you are armed with this information, you will be choosing the right job for yourself which you will keep forever and will strive to excell in that position, ofcourse you will grow in your career too.
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I'll suggest you a few things thati have learbed from experience and talking to many successful people and i love they will help you decide.\n1. Never choose a career option just becuase it has a good scope or has many jobs availabel as of now. The skills and the jobs requred in the economy keeps on changing every few years and its very much possible that by the time you are through with your studies, that stream is already facing a down trend \n\n2. Always choose a career path which interests you and is close to your heart. If you do anything with passion and interest , you would excel in it and there is no dearth of opportunities for excellant people in any fiend\n\n3. Always stay away from mediocrity. whatever you do ,give it your 100% because even taking a  failure is much easier if your have tried hard whereas a success is also bitter if you got it the easy way\n\n4. Archeology has many opportunities in India as well as other countries so dont feel like this.