1. Discovering your path
- As we grow up as a student, we start thinking of our career.
- Our aspirations change at several stages of life. For example, our childhood’s aim gradually changes as we grew up.
- But it is very important to come to a conclusion as early as possible.
- The advantage of discovering your path as early as possible is you will get more time to prepare in your field.
- Here you need to understand your personality, interest, skills and values.
- Conduct SWOT analysis in order to know your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
- You can take help from your family member, faculties, colleagues and friends.
- Try to fill the skills checklist to have a better self-assessment.
2. Career exploration
- After deciding your career aim you need to explore yourself in that area.
- You should do research work and increase your knowledge in an interested area.
- You need to develop the skills required in that area.
- Start reading an autobiography of leading people in your field.
- Start visiting workshops, industries and events relevant to you.
- While exploring you will get some data relevant to your career which will help you to guide in specific direction.
3. Selecting the best alternative
- After you have discovered your path and gain knowledge in that area, its time to take a major decision in your career.
- In this stage, you need to decide how will you execute your exploration experience.
- This stage is a challenging one because you need to eliminate all the other alternatives after selecting the major one.
- Click here to know the steps in thedecision-making process.
4. Take action
- After selecting the major area of your interest, set a clear goal and objective.
- Make sure that your goal is attainable and realistic.
- Make plans for the accomplishment of the goal and set proper deadlines.
- You should be consistent in executing your action plan.
5. Keep tracking yourself
- You should keep track of every activity performed. This will help you in forming a database relevant to your career.
- Evaluate your decision at every stage to make your goal visible.
- Take feedback which will be helpful in the future.
- Try to note your task in a notepad instead of using a mobile phone. This will help you to give more value to your task.
