Career is the interaction of work roles and other life roles over a person’s lifespan including both paid and unpaid work in individual’s life. People create career patterns as they make decisions about education, work, family and other life roles.

CHOOSING A CAREER

Selection of a suitable career needs meticulous care, thought and proper planning, keeping in mind one’s goals, and a clear idea of the expectations from that career. Before deciding on the choice of a career, you should have a clear notion of your interest, aptitude, ambition, scope and qualifications. Before selecting a career, you have to consider your interest in it. You should ask yourself whether you really like it or whether you are going to like it or whether you would lose your interest in it after some time. Your aptitude for the career is also equally important. So also is your ambition. ‘Not failure, but low ambition is a crime.’ However, ambition needs to be toned down in consonance with the scope in a particular field and your inherent qualities. Without ambition, you can not climb the ladder of success and attain anything in your life. To find out the scope in a particular area of interest is also of very great importance. You should see whether it is a new field. If it is a new field, ask yourself whether it is growing. If it is a growing one, the corollary is that you will also grow with it as an employee. In a growing field, typically there is exploitation to your advantage. Then you have to consider your qualifications for the career chosen. As you are aware, each career requires an amount of theoretical knowledge and skill which are gained through education and training

PERSONAL VISION In today’s competitive environment, confidence and hard work are an absolute necessity to get ahead. When you are strongly motivated through a personal vision, mission or purpose, you will have a lot of confidence and drive and the capacity and willingness to undertake large quantities of workload without complaint. Those without this strong internal drive have never been able to reach any level of prominence in any field.

PROFESSIONAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: Along with a sense of purpose, you should have a high degree of professional and interpersonal skills if you want to be successful in your chosen career. Success in any field comes only through a process of interaction and communication with others

INFORMATION HANDLING SKILLS: The third imperative for a successful career is good information handling skills. In today’s world, one of the key abilities for survival and growth, is your ability to collect, organize, store, retrieve, and use information effectively. Your skill in using computers and electronic communication devices is a critical aspect, irrespective of the area of your work. With the majority of jobs increasingly shifting to the white-collar variety, those with poor information handling ability are doomed to failure.

Vocational education (or Vocational Education and Training (VET), also called Career and Technical Education (CTE)) prepares learners for careers that are based in manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic and totally related to a specific trade, occupation or vocation, hence the term, in which the learner participates. It is sometimes referred to as technical education, as the learner directly develops expertise in a particular group of techniques or technology.

The main objective of vocational education and training is to prepare persons, especially the youth in the age group 15-25 years, for the world of work and make them employable for a broad range of occupations in various industries and other economic sectors. It primarily trains them in very specific activities, and provides a significant “hands on” experience in acquiring the necessary skills. Historically, higher education in India was designed to offer academic knowledge in humanities, social sciences, and sciences for advanced studies and research.

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