“Your Career” – Choose Wisely, Live Well

Choosing a right career and living a quality life is pursued by every individual but most of us get puzzled on how to choose a right career and very few individuals get rescued from this problem by doing proper career planning and development. You may often heard this phrase on television on the commercial advertisement of Tele shopping but here it is used for career planning and development :

Choose wisely, live well.

In the recent times, it has been seen that often children get struck in their own thoughts about what they want to achieve in their life and how to achieve that. Interestingly, most of them didn’t get any concrete advice as they get influenced either by their parent’s or their relatives or by third party advice. These type of advice and suggestion most of times creates big problems for the children as they get misguided or misdirected to the field or subject area in which they are not that much effectual or having interest. Ultimately, this creates disaster for them!

So, this article is specially written in order to guide the children of our community to choose their career wisely and live a better living which we always aim for!

How to Choose a Career?

Choosing a right career starts from well career planning and counseling which should be start grooming in a child from very beginning. When the child studying in 8^th and 9^th standard he or she along with his or her parents should start doing timely assessment by applying small technique i.e. SWOT Analysis.

In the SWOT analysis, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats should be assessed with respect to individual habits, attitude, intellectual and the prevailing market condition of industry and education sector. The following things can be undertaken to evaluate the strengths which can take him or her to long way on the path of career growth and success :

• Past records or mark sheet
• Interest, passion and enthusiasm
• Family willingness in supporting of higher education
• Friend Circle

The SWOT analysis will prove to be significant in choosing the right subject which is a kick start for the career of an individual.

Selecting the Institute/ Colleague

Along with choosing right subject, selecting right college and city is also very important in career planning and development. Now, the question is how to select right college and city? The answer of this question is not that much complex as it has been perceived but it is very simple if the individual is ready to do some mental exercise in the proper manner.

The simple exercise which required to be performed for better career planning and development are as follows :

• Meet highly educated professionals in your surroundings.
• Involve yourselves in education forums
• Attend career counseling seminars and workshops.
• Read newspapers like Business Standards, Economic Times etc to get to know about what are the best courses prevailing or demand in the industry.
• Read Educational Magazines like Economic Political Weekly, Harvard Business Reviews, Career Options, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Outlook India, etc.

The improvised version you can opt for choosing right courses, colleges and universities are underneath:

• You can even take suggestion and advice from professional on Quora.com
• Try to connect with Alumni or Students of reputed colleges on social media.
• Identify the selection criteria of colleges and their placement ratio in reputed companies.
• If you are planning to move abroad for the education, prepare for IELTS and Toefl to get admission in Foreign Universities

In the above you got to know about what actions need to be performed.

Pitfalls to Avoid

Now, there also some points which should be strictly avoid for better career planning and development:

• Avoid advices from those who do not have experience or knowledge of the course or subject or college.
• Don’t follow the same path where all are heading. Set your own path and identity.
• Never go on the advice of agents who do false promises for giving admission.

Ranking Colleagues in 2016 – Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

If you really pursue a dream to study in the reputed colleges of India then below is the list of Colleges on the basis of their 2016 ranking which is accredited by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India :

1) Management

Figure 1:(Source:India Ranking 2016)

2) Engineering

3) Pharmacy

4) Entrepreneurship: In our community, everyone inspires to become entrepreneur in their life. It is true that we all have some business skills in our blood as our fathers and forefathers have been involved in some kind of business. However, the real skills of business completes with right entrepreneurship course relevant to current times and education. In India, there are premium institutes which are well known around the world for their entrepreneurship programs.

Let’s have a look on some of the best entrepreneurship colleges in India :

1. Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI)
2. Nirma Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) – M.B.A in Family Business and Entrepreneurship
3. Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship (Bangalore) – Specialization in Entrepreneurship Development.
4. Amity Business School, Noida.
5. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
6. P Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai and many more.

Thus, there are numerous top notch colleges in India from where you can lead your career and live your life in the manner you crave for.

Nevertheless, to get selected in these institutes you have to work hard for the competitive exams like IITJEE, AIEEE, JEE Mains, JEE Advance, BITSAT, VITEEE for Engineering, CAT for MBA and GPAT for Pharmacy.

Hence, it can be concluded that career planning and development holds significant importance in the individual life to achieve exponential growth in all endeavors.