Career Guidance and Counselling

SYED SHAZ HUSAIN

LIBRARIAN,

KV, LALITPUR

Career?

• A person’s progress through his her life.

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• Career is an ongoing process of gaining knowledge and improving skills that will help a person to be successful in his/her life.

Career Opportunities

• We can find on internet that there are more than 50000 career options all over the world.
• But when we talk about it our country we talk mostly about only 5, which are engineering, medicine, law, business management and civil services.
• So, are these only the options?

The dilemma!

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• Which is the best job?
• Which job pays handsome salary?
• Which is the secured job?

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The real question!

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• What can you do?

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• If you don’t know this then what is the meaning of those questions?

Broad categories to understand.

• There are basically three choices for you.

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• A specialist program.
• In this you want to do a course in which you know the area of your interest you want to work into. Like fashion design, architecture, economist, etc
• A base degree.
• A foundation is built through a degree on which possible futures are made. Like sciences, physics, chemistry, political science etc.
• A vocational course
• Courses based on a base degree like PG in library science, PG in design, PG in travel and tourism, PG in library and information science.

How to choose one?

• Simply, it is a three step process.

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Assess yourself

Explore Career Options

Set Career Goals

Assessment

• What are your interest?
• What do you want to be?
• What are your skills?
• How do you prepare for career?
• Make a list of activities that you have enjoyed doing in the past four years.

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Career Options!

• So what are the options available based on which we can look for career in a specific field of interest.

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• Our search should be based on what we like.

Career options after XII

• B. Com, B.A, B. Sc, BBA
• Law
• Mass Communication
• Hotel Management
• B. Tech
• Travel and Tourism
• Medical
• Also in Designing, Navy, Army

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Career after BA

• Based on the subjects taken, a career in Anthropology, Archeologist, Historian, Geographer, Educationist, Psychologist, Sociologist and many more.
• A good career in Public Administration
• A lot of scopes after higher education in respective fields.

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B. Com/ BBA/ BBM

• Banking and Finance
• Business Management
• CA
• Taxation
• CS
• Company Secretarial Practice
• Auditing and Cost-Accounting

Career after Commerce

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• Business Manager, Banker, Accountant and many other scope after higher study like, M. Com, MBA, CA, CFA, CS etc.

Graduate course in various Vocational Subjects

• Journalism
• Travel & Tourism
• Health Psychology
• Social Work
• Mass Communication
• Nutrition and Diatetics

After a Degree or Diploma in Engineering and Technology

• Industrial Biotechnology
• Automobile
• Manufacturing Science and Engineering
• Petroleum
• Pharmaceutical
• Petrochemical
• Irrigation
• Leather
• Marine
• Metallurgy
• Mining

Options after Science (PHY, CHEM, BIO)

• B. Sc
• Biotechnology
• Polymer Chemistry
• Electronics
• Information Technology
• Drugs and Dyes
• Computer Science

UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (UPSC)

• All candidates done 12^th are eligible with having first division in any subject.
• Having second division with Physics, Chemistry or Biology is also valid.
• Many departments are recruited through an exam on the platform of UPSC.
• Thousands of jobs are available through UPSC.

Career Goals

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• A career goal will also help you into doing what you want with your life rather than just drifting into a job.
• Once you have chosen a career think strategically about the steps to accomplish your goal.
• Achieving the target of your career will be a lot easier if you create a career plan.

References

• Ministry of labour and Employment (labour.gov.in)
• National Government services Portal (services.india.gov.in)
• National Career Services (ncs.gov.in)
• Union Public Service Commission (upsc.gov.in)

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